The Power of Community-Based Organisations: Investing in Local Solutions for Lasting Change

The document highlights the effectiveness of community-based organisations (CBOs) in implementing sustainable agricultural practices through local trust and social proofing. It uses the example of Itanya Africa Group's vertical garden project to show how leveraging community influencers can overcome resistance to new methods. However, it notes that CBOs face a significant funding gap as major institutions often prefer larger NGOs, which limits the scale and speed of local interventions. The text calls for prioritising financial support for CBOs to scale models for food security and regenerative agriculture.

• Community-based organisations (CBOs) possess a cultural and contextual understanding that allows them to implement adaptive, bottom-up solutions more effectively than larger institutions.
• The use of 'social proofing' via respected community influencers successfully drove the adoption of vertical gardens, with some participants willing to pay 10% of the cost, though less visible practices like composting remain harder to incentivise.
• CBOs suffer from a lack of consistent financial support because major funding institutions typically favour larger, internationally recognised NGOs, forcing CBOs to rely on volunteers.

APA

Global Resilience Partnership (2025). The Power of Community-Based Organisations: Investing in Local Solutions for Lasting Change. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/the-power-of-community-based-organisations-investing-in-local-solutions-for-lasting-change/

Chicago

Global Resilience Partnership. The Power of Community-Based Organisations: Investing in Local Solutions for Lasting Change. 2025. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/the-power-of-community-based-organisations-investing-in-local-solutions-for-lasting-change/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{globalresiliencepartnership2025power, author = {{Global Resilience Partnership}}, title = {{The Power of Community-Based Organisations: Investing in Local Solutions for Lasting Change}}, publisher = {Global Resilience Partnership}, year = {2025}, month = apr, url = {https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/the-power-of-community-based-organisations-investing-in-local-solutions-for-lasting-change/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }