COLLABORATIVE APPROACHES TO COMMUNITY DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT

1. COLLABORATIVE APPROACHES TOCOMMUNITY DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT A Distance Learning CourseSponsored by the World Bank June 9 to 18, 2004Asmara, Dar es Salaam, Kigali, Abuja & Washington, DC

2. Enhancing Capacity to Scale Up Community Driven Development in Anglophone Africa Why the Community Driven Development (CDD) Approach? What does it mean to you? Is this new?

3. Five Pillars of Community Driven Development • Empowering Communities • Empowering Local Governments • Realigning Central Government • Improving Accountability • Capacity Building

4. Enhancing Capacity to Scale Up Community Driven Development in Anglophone Africa Long-term Goal: Communities, in collaboration with decentralized government, using improved livelihood and governance strategies driven by local knowledge, values and priorities.

5. Enhancing Capacity to Scale Up Community Driven Development in Anglophone Africa Shorter-term Objective: Participants in this course act to scale-up the CDD approach, e.g., promote or make policy changes, participate in CDD program or project design, preparation, implementation, and/or evaluation.

6. Content • Five Pillars of CDD • Tools for Social Accountability • Conflict Management/Consensus Building • Gender Sensitivity • Action Planning & Idea Marketing Methods • Training of Trainers Workshops • Regional Distance Learning CDD Courses • Virtual Learning Environment & Library

7. Methods continued: • Building on local expertise and adapting to local context • Learning-by-doing: Distance Learning, action planning, field trainings, monitoring, acknowledging mistakes • South-south exchange, face to face and virtual • Links with operations: donor, government and private sector more • Establishing long-term partnerships with local institutions (business planning and marketing as needed) • Using Distance Learning to expand reach, support networking and stretch resources

8. Participants Come From: • Civil Society (NGOs, CBOs, community leaders, academia) • Central Government • Local Government • Donor Agencies • Media? • Private Sector? • Other?

9. Course Objectives: • To define the principles and practices of Community Driven Development • To identify the policy environment, opportunities and/or challenges of effective implementation of a CDD project • To analyze and use techniques to manage potential conflicts inherent in local development • To incorporate tools for social accountability into project and policy design

10. How will we learn? Face-to-face and Distance learning (videoconferencing, videotape, and on-line discussions) Continuous learning, documenting and feedback – through: • Session feedback • Daily wrap-up sessions • Final workshop evaluation

11. Format for Each Session: • 2 hour off-line (no video) session: • Country Exercise • 2 hour on-line (video) session: • Report from countries on exercises • Presentation by resource people • Questions & answers/Discussion • ½ hour off-line session (no video): • Wrap up and Evaluation Note: session on 17th is all off-line.

12. Training Materials • Binders • Sessions briefs that provide overview of each session and smiley face evaluations • Copies of overheads for each session • Copies of country exercises • List of reading materials for preparation and follow-up to the sessions • Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) • CDRom to be mailed out after course

13. Resource People from African Partner Institutions: • Barney Laseko, Participatory Agricultural Development and Empowerment Project (PADEP) Tanzania • John Lubuva, Ilala Municipal Council, Tanzania • Craig Arendse, Mediation & Transformation Practice, South Africa • Sola Ajuwon, FADAMA Project, Nigeria • Local facilitators AND YOU!

14. Any questions regarding methods or DL that need to be answered right away? We look forward to learning from you! Thank you!