UCANRs Community Economic Development programming focuses on Inclusive Economic Development. The four dominant paradigms of economic development (attraction and retention, small business development, ...

Realizing that disconnected silo-based efforts cannot effectively address these interrelated conditions on their own, innovators within the community development field have increasingly experimented ...

A human rights-based approach is a conceptual framework for the process of human development that is normatively based on international human rights standards and operationally directed to promoting ...

For too long, we’ve tried to solve deeply rooted social challenges with disconnected solutions, using one program for education, another for healthcare and a separate one for jobs. They often operate ...

Astrid Puentes’s journey from Bogotá to the UN is shaped by a deep awareness of how environmental harm often mirrors social injustice. Early in her legal career, she confronted cases where pollution ...