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Contribution short abstract:

Findings show that facilitation by local NGOs and CBOs, capacity building, funding and financial management, needs identification, and context mapping underpinned by a direct interface learning approach are effective ways to support women and youth-led local community-based groups and organisations.

Contribution long abstract:

How can international donors and agencies build effective local-international partnership through providing effective direct support to women and youth-led local community-based groups and organisations on peace-building and development? How do these community-based groups and organisations respond to the political dynamics and influences of adapting global knowledge in ways that enables them to contribute to peace in their local communities is not fully understood? This research study aimed to develop evidence on the aforementioned issues by assessing the European Union Micro Project Programme (EU-MPP) implemented from 2001 to 2012 in local communities of the Niger-Delta region of Nigeria using a convergent parallel mixed-method case study approach. Findings indicate that facilitation by local NGOs and CBOs, technical capacity building, funding and financial management, identification and understanding of needs, capacity building and mapping local context underpinned by a direct interface learning approach are effective ways to support women and youth-led local community-based groups and organisations. An effective local-international partnership for peace-building is underpinned by this direct interface learning approach which encompasses; participation, involves knowledge exchange, negotiation, good governance, trust, sense of belonging, social values, community-led methodology, consultation and consensus. However adapting global or universal knowledge by local community-based groups and organisations is influenced by local culture and world views held overtime by local communities. This implies utilisation, sensitivity and a co-learning approach by international donors and agencies to local community assets and structures for successful contribution to local peacebuilding and development.