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Advancing Community-Driven Development: Achieving Sustainable Poverty Reduction

This regional workshop in Ghana focused on Community-Driven Development (CDD) to empower communities in their own development. Discussions covered principles, institutional arrangements, targeting mechanisms, and local tax systems for sustainable poverty reduction. Questions on governance, community participation, and fiscal decentralization were explored.

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Advancing Community-Driven Development: Achieving Sustainable Poverty Reduction

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  1. Community-driven development (CDD)REGIONAL WORKSHOP14-17 March 2006New Coco Beach Resort - Accra, Ghana

  2. Outcomes of the Electronic Conference 7 Main themes • Definition • Principles • CDD Menu • Institutions and CDD • Targeting • Monitoring and Evaluation in CDD • Local Tax System

  3. Definition • Aim: • Building long term processes for sustainable poverty reduction • Enabling the community to participate in their own development • Definition still not clear • Unanswered questions Is it a way to correct government or market failure? Is it a self-help approach to accelerate access to public goods and services?

  4. 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?

  5. 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.

  6. 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 question How to make sure thatcommunitiesare not be penalized for their illiteracy/semi-literacy or their poverty?

  7. 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 remaining How to get community commitment without setting unaffordable contributions that would militate against poorer communities?

  8. 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

  9. 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?

  10. Community-driven development (CDD)REGIONAL WORKSHOP14-17 March 2006New Coco Beach Resort - Accra, Ghana

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