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Community-driven development (CDD) REGIONAL WORKSHOP 14-17 March 2006 New Coco Beach Resort - Accra, Ghana. Outcomes of the Electronic Conference. 7 Main themes Definition Principles CDD Menu Institutions and CDD Targeting Monitoring and Evaluation in CDD Local Tax System. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Community-driven development (CDD)
Community-driven development (CDD)
REGIONAL WORKSHOP
14-17 March 2006
New Coco Beach Resort - Accra, Ghana
Community-driven development (CDD)
Outcomes of the Electronic Conference
7 Main themes
• Definition
• Principles
• CDD Menu
• Institutions and CDD
• Targeting
• Monitoring and Evaluation in CDD
• Local Tax System
Community-driven development (CDD)
Definition
• Aim:– Building long term processes for sustainable poverty
reduction– Enabling the community to participate in their own
development
• Definition still not clear
• Unanswered questionsIs it a way to correct government or market failure?
Is it a self-help approach to accelerate access to public goods and services?
Community-driven development (CDD)
Principles
CDD should
– Be complementary with local government – Accompany the decision making transfer to local democratic
organizations
Unanswered questions
• What to do when the policy and institutional environment is unsupportive?• How to meet community preferences for concrete and early results?• Is there a trade-off between impact and longer-term sustainability of
institutional and participatory processes?
Community-driven development (CDD)
Institutional Matters
• Need for a supportive institutional environment, transparent and accountable
• Questions:– Which kind of relationship should exist between CDD and local
government? – What kind of process should be used:
• long decentralisation processes• short processes as NGO led
• Response:• A coalition of countervailing powers may be desirable to
have more equity, more sustainability and more transparency.
Community-driven development (CDD)
Menu
• Many questions, Few answers
• Which components, activities are project led or demand driven?
• We agreed that– Menu can not be fully open– The content of the Menu varies in different situation– There can not be blueprint for the Menu
• Remaining questionHow to make sure that communities are not be penalized for their
illiteracy/semi-literacy or their poverty?
Community-driven development (CDD)
Targeting
• Main issues emerging from the discussion– Is it the role of CDD to target the poorest?– Targeting needs to be done in ways that differ from
conventional projects
• Question remainingHow to get community commitment without setting unaffordable
contributions that would militate against poorer communities?
Community-driven development (CDD)
Monitoring, Evaluation and Supervision in CDD
• Main Issues
– More important at local level for CDD
– More expensive than for other projects
– Still difficult to link to short term qualitative identifiable results
Community-driven development (CDD)
Local Tax System
• Fiscal Decentralization as a mean to confer financial autonomy to communities
• Problems– Capacity to raise taxes at lower level– Lack of confidence of citizens in the good use of the money
• Need for more transparency
• Unanswered question– How to implement fiscal decentralization?– How to make transfer of public resources more equitable within a
country?
Community-driven development (CDD)
Community-driven development (CDD)
REGIONAL WORKSHOP
14-17 March 2006
New Coco Beach Resort - Accra, Ghana
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