The Challenge of Scaling Up Community Driven Development Beyond Projects

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The Challenge of Scaling Up Community Driven
Development Beyond Projects

• James Adams
• Vice President
• The World Bank

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The programmatic approach

• Africas relationship with its partners has
  undergone a redefinition
• Country-owned strategies the PRSP
• Programmatic and integrated approach moving
  from isolated projects to having the country
  budget and MTEF determine the development program
• Scale up development effectiveness

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CDD a scaled up vision of empowerment

• Community empowerment process creates development
  effectiveness through letting people decide what
  they need to improve their lives
• Integral part of PRSPs, the roadmap for
  government and donor prioritization
• Until recently, community empowerment was
  developed through individual projects need to
  scale up through CDD
• Requires institutional transformation

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CDD Challenge

• CDD joins community empowerment with government
  revitalization through decentralization
• Goal is effective public and private sector
  delivering services to people efficiently and
  effectively
• Requires enabling environment of political
  vision, legislation, and capacity building