4.1 Locally-Led Action Continuum
The following continuum aims to help your organisation assess and monitor its progression towards more locally-led development and humanitarian initiatives. While it identifies five stages, the continuum should be considered a continuous progression.
The Continuum focuses on who and how decisions are being made. This is closely linked to the concept of power, which can be thought of as ‘the ability to influence the outcomes of decision-making’.
There are many areas where decision-making takes place, even within a single project. For example, program design, the allocation of resources, design of monitoring and evaluation plans. This Toolkit refers to these areas as Domains, which are aligned with the Quality Principles in ACFID’s Code of Conduct. Tools 2 and 3 will support your organisation to reflect on where you currently sit on the Continuum, across a variety of Domains.
The Continuum deliberately does not include specific indicators for each stage in the continuum. It is designed to be applicable across a wide at a variety of Domains, operating structures and models, and scales of operation.