ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a three-year initiative in citizen-led development undertaken by social movement activists to share learning between the Global North and South. This initiative, located in Manchester and Nairobi, offers comparative grassroots perspectives from participants in order to foster new insights into global development challenges. Through this case study we identify reasons to enable grassroots communities to think and act globally. Our objective is to share the perspectives of social movement activists and facilitate their contribution to debates about development that are too often restricted to academics and professionals. In doing this, we seek to expand current understandings of global development, and test the value of the concept of transition towards a more socially just world.
