As we approach the ten year anniversary of the Coalition for Human Rights in Development, we would like to celebrate our shared successes, learn from our challenges, and work together with our members and close partners to set our 2025-2030 strategy. In this page, you will find:
- a proposed timeline for the collective strategic planning process
- updates about the process and how you can get involved
- some context around the Coalition’s history and vision
Setting the scene: highlights from consultation process
From March to July 2024, the Secretariat and Steering Committee facilitated a series of one-on-one conversations, group discussions and surveys as part of the Coalition’s strategic planning process. Through the consultations, we gathered comprehensive information from about 80 members, partners, and advocacy targets as to what they see as strengths and weaknesses of the Coalition and our collective work.
You can now find the results of the consultations in two documents:
- A 2-page infographic on the main priorities going forward (divided under thematic issues, advocacy targets/spaces, and ways to improve our collective work).
- A 30-page summary, which includes: key priorities and how to move forward; key trends; and a reflection on key strengths and weaknesses of the Coalition.
Timeline
To set our 2025-2030 strategy, we are co-designing a process with our members and partners. See below a proposed timeline:
| February 2024 |
Draft strategic planning process proposed to members. |
| March 2024 |
Begin collective reflection and consultation on current Coalition work, changes in context and relevant trends, opportunities, andoptions for strategic priorities; start consultations by sending out surveys in French, Spanish and English. |
| April – July 2024 |
Group discussions and one-on-one interviews with members, partners and targets, while ensuring regional and sectoral diversity, and feedback from groups relevant to the different thematic/program areas of the Coalition. |
| August – September 2024 |
Analyzing information from surveys, consultations. |
| September – October 2024 |
The Secretariat prepares the first draft of a briefing paper, which includes: analysis of context and issues related to our mission; reflection on achievement, challenges, gaps and learnings; opportunities for collective work moving forward. |
| November 2024 |
Secretariat and Steering Committee review draft briefing paper. |
| December 2024 |
Infographics and briefing paper translated and shared with members. The briefing paper and infographics will be used as a baseline for all Coalition members to then discuss and agree on strategic objectives for the Coalition from 2025 to 2030. |
| January 2025 |
Prepare questions and methodologies (based on results from the consultations) to use upcoming members gathering to prepare strategic plan |
| 8-11 July 2025 |
Members meet in-person in Nairobi (Kenya) to deliberate and set objectives for 2025-2030. |
| August – September 2025 |
Draft strategic plan based on members’ gathering. |
| October 2025 |
Strategic plan goes to vote. |
| November 2025 |
New Strategic Plan in place. |
Some background context
The foundational work for the Coalition for Human Rights in Development started in 2013, and in 2015 members formally adopted the current name. Since then, the Coalition has grown and changed: we now have over 100 members from Africa, Latin America, Asia and other parts of the world. The pandemic, the urgency around climate change, food insecurity, growing inequality and other factors have also shifted the context in which we operate over the years. You can learn more about our history on our website.
Since the last members gathering in 2017, our members and partners have been working with the Coalition secretariat to:
- Increase coordination on development finance at the regional level, with a focus on relevant regional development banks;
- Design, build, operate and refine the Community Resource Exchange pilot system to better collaborate with communities (affected by international investments and development finance) by linking them with skills, tools, resources and allies;
- Collectively mobilize through the Defenders in Development Campaign to leverage development finance to respond to reprisals and closing civic space while directly accompanying defenders affected by development finance activities; and
- Amplify grassroots voices on development finance and collectively build narratives that center communities and defenders as the experts of their own development pathways and priorities.
Read more in our “Report on collective achievements“.
Throughout this time, various committees and working groups of members and partners have been setting strategy and implementing collective work for the various program areas of the Coalition. This work is being done both regionally as well as thematically. However, the Coalition is more than the sum of our regions of action or program areas. We need to look at our work together more holistically to decide how our global coalition of social movements, civil society organizations, and grassroots groups can better advance human rights-based and community-led development, and this is why we hope that all our members and close partners will join us in this strategic planning process.