Joint Learning Initiative for Faith and Local communities
Joint Learning Initiative for Faith and Local Communities (JLI) is an international collaboration to develop and communicate evidence on local faith actors’ roles and contributions to development and humanitarian action for community well-being.
World Vision and JLI collaborate to build, interpret and communicate evidence. We increasingly leverage local approaches--including regional learning hubs--to build and use evidence in ways that lead to thriving and flourishing communities. The State of the Evidence publication builds on academic literature, programmatic experience and evaluation and the outputs of the regional hubs with a goal of sharing content and resources that will allow us to be more effective and strategic in our approaches.
Since JLI's founding in 2012, World Vision has worked closely to build evidence on strategic faith engagement to inform and improve our own programming, strengthen the broader develop humanitarian and development sector's understanding on strategic faith engagement and develop policy recommendations on the role of faith and local faith actors.
Through Learning Hubs including Local Faith Mobilisation, Ending Violence Against Children, Peace and Conflict, we have supported scoping studies on key issues, developed policy papers and hosted virtual and in-person learning events. These studies have informed policy dialogue, multilateral engagement and led to a range of innovative approaches within donor and multilateral partners.
Together with other partners, we co-hosted the Localizing Response Conference in Sri Lanka in 2017, the 2018 Faith Action for Children on the Move Conference, and the Local Humanitarian Leadership- Amman: The role of Local Faith Actors in implementing the Global Compact on Refugees (2019) all bringing together local faith actors with policy makers and humanitarian and development leaders.
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