This workshop explores how Australian-based NGOs can better consider and practice locally-led action. The workshop invites attendees to explore hypothetical future scenarios in 2039. These scenarios have been designed by the ACFID Locally Led Action Community of Practice to challenge us as a sector, stretch our thinking and let us jump into a ‘hypothetical future’ for the purposes of exploring how the sector may move ahead to realise the potential of locally led action. The workshop will employ the futures triangle Inayatullah, S. (2008) to enable attendees to explore what is ‘pulling’ us forward, what trends and issues are ‘pushing’ change for different futures, and what are the ‘weights’ that are holding us back from change. The workshop seeks to challenge individuals to think about what might be possible in their organisations and what we can do as a sector to ensure we authentically shift power to enable locally led action. The workshop seeks to inspire new ideas and innovations, creative solutions and advancements for locally led action. Australia’s International Development Policy includes a commitment to locally led development and supporting local leadership across different aspects of society (government, business, academia, civil society), as presented in the DFAT Guidance Note: Locally led development. This workshop seeks to practically advance that agenda. Organised in collaboration between ACFID’s Development Practice Committee (DPC) and the ACFID Locally Led Action Community of Practice, insights gained from the workshop will inform continued action to advance the agenda locally-led action in the sector.  

 

 

Objectives of the session :

-       To have a safe space to have some difficult conversations about the future of our sector

-       A visioning activity for the sector – help to set long term goals and identify what we want to achieve or avoid in the future

-       Deeper insight into current trends and their possible long term effects on nurturing or hindering new ways of working

-       Inspire new ideas and innovations, creative solutions and advancements

-       Identify potential risks in locally led futures

-       To challenge individuals to think about what might be possible in their organisations and what we can do as a sector to ensure we authentically shift power.