Community Driven Development (CDD) is an approach that supports participatory decision-making and local development. It consists of five pillars: (i) empowering communities; (ii) empowering local governments; (iii) decentralization and realigning the center; (iv) improving accountability; and (v) building capacity. Scaling up CDD programs then means creating more of or reinforcing all of these elements through a multi-dimensional process to broaden and deepen the impact of CDD across these five pillars. Scaling up CDD also emphasizes creating linkages between decentralized sector ministries, local government and community based initiatives within a “local space” – a concept of intermediate scale above the community and below the regional and national levels. Scaling up CDD in this context requires creating linkages and partnerships between the three primary stakeholders functioning within the local space. This suggests not so much a vertical expansion, but an horizontal extension of the CDD approach that reaches outwards to promote collaborative local development . The local development lens helps define the objective of scaling up not in terms of larger numbers of sub-projects, but in terms of more and strengthened working partnerships that exemplify a development approach that combines in a synergistic fashion the resources and skills of all three entities: communities, their local governments, and the decentralized sector ministries and departments whose role it is to support service provision. For ultimately, it is these partnerships that ensure that CDD programs are able to scale up in more dynamic and sustainable ways.
Key Resources:
Aiyar, S. and Binswanger, H. Scaling Up Community Driven Development: Theoretical Underpinnings and Program Design Implications, World Bank Working Paper 3039. Washington D.C. : The paper examines the possible obstacles to scaling up, and possible solutions. It considers the theoretical case for community-driven development and case studies of success in both sectoral and multisectoral programs. Zambia: Issues of Scaling Up in Peri-Urban Areas (SD Note, 2004) Scaling-up a Community-Driven HIV/AIDS Program in Malawi (SD Note, 2004) Sourcebook for Community Driven Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (AFR): A Vision for creating prosperity through empowerment Scaling Up CDD Action Research: Lessons from Six Case Studies Scaling Up Community Driven Development : A step by step guide Scaling Up CDD in Africa - Case Studies: Bennin (French) I Uganda I Zambia |
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