Community-driven development (CDD)
Community-driven development (CDD)
Outcomes of the brainstorming on the concept of CDD REGIONAL WORKSHOP
14-17 March 2006
New Coco Beach Resort - Accra, Ghana
Community-driven development (CDD)
Three ways to approach the concept were explored…
1. CDD as a response to a problem: CDD as a way to correct power imbalances, to correct market and government failures and other disabling factors for rural development and poverty reduction
2. CDD as a solution with an objective: CDD as an instrument for rural poverty reduction, as a way to transfer public resources to finance micro-projects;
3. CDD as a way to put into practice higher-level principles… such as:– Democracy and citizenship: participation in the decision-
making over issues of public and private interests along the principle of equity;
– Empowerment– Pluralistic governance; and– Good governance along the principles of equity, efficiency,
stability and growth.
Community-driven development (CDD)
Focus on linkages, processes, principles…(from 2004 workshop presentation)
• The role of projects and programmes is increasingly leading to fostering:- Integration into the market/private sector- Integration into the global community- Integration into civil society
• In a constructive tension between:
Competition <> Exclusion
Cohesion/InclusionEfficiency + EquityDynamic over time
>> Efficiency
>> Equity
>> Stability
>> Growth
• A work on the dynamics of the systems (e.g. balancing outreach and sustainability) to understand and accommodate the inherent complexity of agricultural and rural livelihood systems
Community-driven development (CDD)
Value and implications of this approach
• Clarification of the concept: CDD only concerns the sphere of public interest, i.e. decision-making over issues of public or private interests along the principle of equity;
• What are the criteria for a CDD operation? What is the degree of CDD in a specific programme?
• In application to the principle of equity, CDD is an instrument for poverty reduction, maybe the most adapted one, as it applies at the (most) local level; and
• Methodological implications: empowering partnerships, autonomy of decisions-making, shared responsibility and accountability.
Community-driven development (CDD)
Compatibility check with the definition of a “community” (According to draft CDD Decision Tools)
– A locus where everybody can have the opportunity to make his/her voice heard directly on matters of public choice
– A territory where everybody (can) know(s) each other, with shared institutions of local governance
Community-driven development (CDD)
Compatibility check with the definition of CDD (According to draft CDD Decision Tools)
It is a way to design and implement development policy and projects that facilitates access to social human and physical capital assets
for the rural poor by creating the conditions for:
Transforming rural development agents from top-down planners into client-oriented service providersEmpowering rural communities to take initiatives for own socio-economic developmentEnabling community-level organizations (especially those of the rural poor) to play a broader role in the design and implementation of policies and programmes affecting their livelihoodsEnhancing the impact of public expenditure on the local economy at community level