Locally Led Development
Abt is committed to locally led development as a key building block toward our mission to deliver sustainable and equitable impact. Our delivery approaches support a transfer of power and authority to diverse local actors. Locally led development enables our teams to optimise politically informed and adaptive responses.
Our experience suggests that there are four dimensions to meaningfully influencing localisation: Strategic, Systemic, Staffing, and Spending. Abt uses this four S's framework to prosecute the locally led development agenda throughout the project cycle and across our programs and operations.
Locally Led Development Programs
Delivering Climate and Disaster-Ready Schools and Hospitals Across Fiji
The Fiji Social Infrastructure Program (FSIP) works with the Government of Fiji to deliver quality, inclusive, and climate and disaster resilient school and health infrastructure that is locally designed and built.
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Locally Led, Place-Based Development in Papua New Guinea
The Australia – Papua New Guinea Subnational Program (APSP) supports subnational government engagement in policy dialogue, economic development and service delivery improvements.
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Flexible Delivery of Development Programs in Fiji
The Abt-managed Fiji Program Support Platform implements a portfolio of Australian Government-funded development programs, in alignment with Fiji's national priorities and the Australia-Fiji Vuvale Partnership.
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Inclusive Health and Education Services in Timor-Leste
The Australian Government’s Australia-Timor-Leste Partnership for Human Development (PHD), managed by Abt, strengthens Timorese government systems to deliver better quality and more inclusive essential services.
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Quality Education for All Papua New Guinean Children
The Partnerships for Improving Education (PIE) program works with school leaders, teachers, parents, government officials and communities to: encourage more children to enrol and stay in school, improve teachers’ professional development practices, and sustain education policy change to enhance teaching quality.
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Tackling Gender Inequality in Papua New Guinea
The Papua New Guinea Women Lead (PNGWL) program seeks to address the country’s entrenched gender inequality by increasing women’s voices in leadership and decision-making, promoting women’s economic empowerment, and improving prevention and responses to gender-based violence.
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