CRS believes that when it invests in people and helps build healthy institutions, local governments, organizations and communities are better able to lead their own development. The dynamic nature of today’s development environment has made clear that local ownership of development programming is key to sustainability. To handle their growing responsibilities, indigenous organizations need innovative, professional partnership and capacity strengthening support. Increasingly, both donors and the international development community seek to empower local government and civil society organizations to chart their own path forward.

CRS has deep experience in supporting local actors to strengthen their own capacity in order to incrementally assume ownership of projects. The attached document provides one-page summaries examples of CRS’ experience across the world in capacity strengthening and transition to local ownership.