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ABSTRACT
Local leadership is increasingly recognised as essential to community-led development interventions. This exploratory qualitative study considers how such community leadership develops within rural Filipino communities. Informed by current definitions of community leadership, Leadership-as-Practice literature, and nine individuals’ experiences, emerging themes denote practices of capacity development, personal change, and relationship building as most significant to community leadership development. These practices happen within the context of collective action, and activities related to the identification and critical analysis of shared challenges; accessing resources communities need to address their identified challenges; management of locally owned projects; and structuring of local groups into formal organisations.
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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
Notes
1 OPI is a program partner of Outreach International, an international nonprofit organisation that, alongside its nine global program partners, supports the development of community-based organisations.
2 Practitioners collected these numbers during biannual programme monitoring to reflect intervention activities and compile progress and completion reports.
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Notes on contributors
Elene Cloete
Elene Cloete ([email protected]) is Director of Research and Advocacy for Outreach International based in Kansas City, MO, USA.
Ami Dasig Salazar
Ami Dasig Salazar (opi.radu.ami@gmail. com) is Research and Documentation Officer of Outreach Philippines, Inc. (OPI). She has a degree in Community Development and has been working in social development for more than twenty years.