Young Voices for Development: Alternative development actors

Every day it is becoming increasingly clear that traditional approaches to development are too slow to keep up with today’s global challenges. To tackle these challenges and build future solutions, we need young changemakers who dare to think outside the box. That is why Disrupt Development and the Dutch Advanced Master in International Development (AMID) have joined hands to amplify the voices of young development professionals. In this Young Voices for Development blog series, young professionals of the AMID Young Professional programme rise to the stage to write about groundbreaking solutions and talk about inspiring innovations. In this first blog post, Margaret Wairimu and Roos de Groot take a deep dive into the promising role that modern-day religious leaders can play in sustainable development.

Alternative development actors: religious leaders for sustainable development

“Although often left unmentioned in modern-day international development spheres, international development strongly ties to religion. In today’s blog, we won’t go into detail about classical NGO’s and CSO’s but rather discuss the promising role that modern-day religious leaders can play for sustainable development. While doing so, we formulate two examples of how religious leaders contributed to sustainable development and provide you with a policy framework for constructive dialogue with religious entities in international development.”

Read the full blog post here.