IDA - Community Driven Development

IDA at Work: Community Driven Development: People Power Yields Results

Community Driven Development: People Power Yields Results

IDA at Work Impact

IDA's annual commitments for community-driven development (CDD) amounts to about $1.3 billion
Services financed include water supply and sewage rehabilitation, school and health facilities construction
IDA’s CDD initiatives have achieved improved delivery of public goods and services

Community driven development (CDD) – an approach that gives control of development decisions and resources to community groups – has been a key operational strategy for delivery of International Development Association (IDA) programs over the past decade. IDA lending for CDD has averaged US$1.3 billion per year with the number of active CDD operations gradually increasing since 2000. CDD operations have proven successful at reaching and empowering communities, delivering cost-effective infrastructure, enhancing livelihoods, and improving community dynamics.

IDA at Work: Community driven development
(Sept, 2010)

Half of Indonesia's villages have used grants to invest in their needs. Kecamatan Development Project.

Returning ex-combatants to civilian life in Sierra Leone helped restore social stability.

- 2.5 Million Benefit from Social Investment Fund in Honduras
- Afghanistan's National Solidarity Program has reached about 13 million people.
- In its 14th year, the Armenian Social Investment Fund keeps the focus on poorest and most remote.
- Bosnia-Herzegovina's community development project helps mend post-war communities
- Community-based rural development in Burkina Faso is paving the way for decentralization.
- Self-help groups in India increased incomes for 8 million women.
- Local infrastructure improves in majority of Kyrgyz Villages.
- Lao's Poverty Reduction Fund has invested in 2,000 villages in three years.
- Testing community-managed schools in Nepal
- Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund increases access to loans and safe water.
- Rural infrastructure project in Senegal improves living conditions for 2.2 million people
- Yemen's Social Fund for Development yields more water, classrooms and roads.

From installing water pumps to building schools, communities in Haiti are selecting their development priorities. Read feature story; view video below - July 2007

Azerbaijan Rural Investment Project video.

- What is IDA? The International Development Association (IDA) is the part of the World Bank that provides interest-free credits and grants to the world's poorest countries. Learn more
- Explore the World Bank's resources on Community Driven Development.
- Analysis: "Community-Driven Development in the Context of Conflict-Affected Countries: Challenges and Opportunities" [June 2006, PDF]