Community Driven Development (CDD) is an approach that can be applied to a range of sectors and contexts. This section provides information on some of the sectoral applications of CDD such as microfinance, youth inclusion, natural resource management, and urban development.
Featured Topic: CDD and Rural Infrastructure Services CDD can be am effective strategy for providing basic rural infrastructure services in a sustainable, efficient and scaleable way. By promoting community participation and ownership, and by engaging local governments, CDD can strengthen the institutional arrangements for planning, financing and managing rural infrastructure investments and make services for responsive and accountable to the poor. Rural Transport in Multi Sectoral and Community Driven Projects (517KB PDF). This Note, which is also available in Spanish (541KB PDF), provides practical guidance on rural transport interventions in multi-sectoral and community driven projects. Institutional Options for Local Rural Infrastructure Services (29kb pdf) Presentation from the World Bank Intl. Conference on Local Development, June 2004 by Chris Gerrard. This presentation examines different institutional options for the delivery of local rural infrastructure services, and the roles that various actors might occupy in such arrangements. Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Toolkit for Multi-Sector Projects World Bank Rural Water Supply & Sanitation and Social Funds Thematic Groups, November 2004 The purpose of this toolkit is to improve the quality and sustainability of RWSS investments financed under multisector community-based projects by providing task teams with guidelines and tools for designing, implementing, and monitoring and evaluating the RWSS components of these projects. Featured Topic: Rural Infrastructure Services |