Project Management Board

Ø"Localization — From Global Commitments to Local Leadership"

GRACE’s Project Management Board (PMB) leaded by the women (Chairman) provides strategic and technical oversight to ensure that programs are locally led, technically sound, evidence-informed, accountable and results-oriented.

At the heart of the PMB is GRACE’s commitment to localization—moving leadership, decision-making, knowledge, resources and accountability closer to communities and local institutions. As a Bangladesh-based organization, GRACE combines grassroots knowledge, trusted community relationships and local contextual understanding with global development standards, technical expertise and evidence.

Ø Technical Leadership That Connects Global Knowledge with Local Action

The PMB brings together experienced development professionals, technical specialists, social-sector practitioners and organizational leadership with multidisciplinary experience in climate resilience, disaster risk reduction, sustainable livelihoods, agriculture, environment, health and WASH, gender and social inclusion, MEAL, community development and social enterprise.

The Board helps translate global development priorities and emerging practices into locally relevant, practical and scalable solutions.

Its core functions include:

• Guiding locally led programme design and decision-making
• Integrating global evidence with community knowledge and local priorities
• Ensuring alignment with donor standards, national priorities and development principles
• Strengthening programme quality, MEAL, safeguarding and accountability
• Reviewing implementation progress, risks, partnerships and resource use
• Promoting innovation, adaptive management and continuous learning
• Identifying evidence-based approaches with potential for replication and scale

Localization as a Partnership Principle

For GRACE, localization means that local actors are not simply beneficiaries or implementing agents—they are partners, co-creators and owners of development solutions.

We promote equitable partnerships that combine the complementary strengths of international and local actors:

Global partners contribute:
Technical expertise • Resources • Networks • Innovation • International standards

Local partners contribute:
Contextual intelligence • Community trust • Local knowledge • Ownership • Locally tested solutions

GRACE seeks to bring these strengths together through shared decision-making, mutual learning, accountability and long-term institutional strengthening.

Ø Multidisciplinary Solutions for Interconnected Challenges

Climate change, poverty, environmental degradation, disasters, food insecurity and social inequality are deeply interconnected. The PMB therefore promotes integrated solutions rather than isolated interventions.

Climate Resilience + DRR + Green Livelihoods + Environment + Agriculture + Health & WASH + Gender + Social Inclusion + Enterprise Development

This integrated perspective enables GRACE to address immediate vulnerabilities while building long-term household, community and institutional resilience.

Ø Quality, Evidence and Accountability

Localization must be supported by strong systems and professional standards. The PMB therefore promotes quality throughout the programme cycle—from assessment and design to implementation, monitoring, learning, reporting and scale-up.

Community feedback, evidence, risk analysis and adaptive learning inform management decisions, while transparency, safeguarding and responsible resource management remain central to programme quality.

Ø From Local Innovation to Wider Impact

GRACE aims to create a pathway through which locally developed solutions can move from community practice to evidence, evidence to partnership, and partnership to scale.

Through collaboration with government institutions, UN agencies, INGOs, national NGOs, universities, research organizations, private-sector partners, foundations and development donors, GRACE seeks to contribute to a more equitable and effective development ecosystem.

Ø Our Commitment

·      Global knowledge informs our direction.

·      Local knowledge shapes our solutions.

·      Evidence strengthens our decisions.

·      Shared leadership builds ownership.

·      Partnerships expand our impact.

GRACE’s Project Management Board: Technical Leadership That Connects Global Knowledge with Local Action.