Community-Driven Development in Post-Conflict and Conflict-Affected Areas : Experiences from East Asia
Community-Driven Development (or CDD) projects are now a major component of World Bank assistance to many developing countries. While varying greatly in size and form, such projects aim to ensure that communities have substantive control in decidin...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/959081468246370786/Community-driven-development-in-post-conflict-and-conflict-affected-areas-experiences-from-East-Asia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27414 |
| Summary: | Community-Driven Development (or CDD)
projects are now a major component of World Bank assistance
to many developing countries. While varying greatly in size
and form, such projects aim to ensure that communities have
substantive control in deciding how project funds should be
used. The proponents of CDD believe that giving
beneficiaries the power to manage project resources will
lead to more efficient and effective use of financial
resources. It is also claimed that project-initiated
participatory processes can have wider 'spillover'
impacts, building local institutions and leadership,
enhancing civic capacity, improving social relations and
boosting state legitimacy. This paper briefly reviews the
World Bank's experience of using CDD in
conflict-affected and post-conflict areas of the East Asia
and Pacific region. This paper provides a framework for
assessing the impacts of CDD projects in post-conflict and
conflict-affected areas. It tries to unpack the potential
causal channels through which projects may have their
desired, or other, impacts. The paper concludes with a short
summary of what we know, what we don't, and potential
future directions for research and programming. |
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