CDD is an approach to development that supports participatory decision making, local capacity building, and community control of resources. The five key pillars of this approach are community empowerment, local government empowerment, realigning the center, accountability and transparency, and learning by doing. With these pillars in place, CDD approaches can create sustainable and wide-ranging impacts by mobilizing communities, and giving them the tools to become agents of their own development. Support to CDD usually includes: - Building capacity of community groups
- Promoting an enabling environment through policy and institutional reform (decentralization, sector policies, etc.)
- Strengthening local governance relationships, including forging linkages between community based organizations and local governments.
Many CDD programs are financed through Social Funds. Social Funds directly finance small community managed projects and allow poor people to become actively involved in the development of their communities. With social fund financing and technical assistance, communities identify their own development priorities, hire contractors, manage project funds, and on completion of construction manage and sustain the project. The World Bank recognizes that CDD approaches and actions are important elements of an effective poverty reduction and sustainable development strategy. Over the last decade, the Bank has increasingly focused on lending to CDD programs in order to reach local communities directly. The Bank has used the CDD approach across a range of countries in support of a variety of urgent needs: water supply and sewerage rehabilitation; school and health post construction, nutrition programs for mothers and infants; building of rural access roads and support for micro-enterprise. Currently, the CDD portfolio amounts to approximately $ 2 billion a year. |
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