This book is an important contribution to the growing body of literature on faith and development, and will be useful both to researchers, and to practitioners working with faith communities.

1: Identifying the Encounters between Local Faith Communities and International Development Actors, by Olivia J. Wilkinson and Kathryn Kraft Section 1: Conceptualising Development in the space between faith and secular approaches 2: Mobilisation towards what? Moving beyond an instrumental view of local faith actors in WASH programmes, by Jonathan Wiles and Nathan Mallonee 3: From Principles to Praxis: The Worldwide Bahá'í Community's Approach to Social and Economic Development, by Nava Kavelin and Julia Berger 4: The spiritual is political: reflecting on gender, religion and secularism in international development, by Brenda E. Bartelink and Erin K. Wilson 5: Social movement and mobilisation approaches - a case study of Tearfund, by Madleina Daehnhardt 6: Cascading theology: Experiences of the implementation of a training-of-the-trainers model for faith-based gender-based violence intervention, by Elisabet le Roux and Jill Olivier Section 2: Practice-based knowledge on partnerships between INGOs and local faith communities 7: Mobilising Local Faith Communities: A cross-organisational comparison of the main mechanisms and methods, by Olivia J. Wilkinson, Stacy Nam, and Jean Duff 8: Integrating gender-based violence and child protection, an exploration of Islamic Relief's approaches, by Sandra Iman Pertek, Najah Almugahed and Neelam Fida 9: Channels of Hope for Gender: Mobilising Communities to Address GBV across the Pacific and Timor-Leste, by Alina Meyer and Abigail Howe-Will 10: The Potential of Faith Leader's Delivery Platforms: Reaching Underserved Populations in Africa with Reproductive Health Interventions, by Alfonso Rosales and Arielle Dolegui 11: Working with data to evolve a community mobilisation process with pastors in the Philippines, by Lincoln Lau Section 3: Parallel systems: how development actors do and do not engage with each other 12: Local Faith Communities and the Sustainable Development Goals in India and Ethiopia, by Emma Tomalin and Jörg Haustein 13: The encounter between international donors and Christian faith-based organisations in the Cameroonian health system: Assumptions, influence and effects, by Sybille Herzig van Wees 14: "When a child has not made 18 years and you marry her off ... don't bother to invite me! I will not come": the role and involvement of faith leaders' wives in child protection issues, by Carola Eyber and Kanykey Jailobaeva Section 4: Deep engagement in complex issues 15: What's in a name? Identifying the harm in 'harmful traditional practices', by Elisabet le Roux and Brenda E. Bartelink 16: Faith collaborations in promoting tolerance and social cohesion, by Kathryn Kraft 17: Partnering with local faith communities: Learning from the response to internal displacement and sexual violence in Colombia, by Elisabet le Roux and Laura Cadavid Valencia Index