In addition to physical destruction, societies emerging from conflict face an erosion of social capital, understood as the basis for joint community actions and the social cohesion that needs to underpin a country-owned development effort. Based on an increasing focus on participatory and community-based approaches to development, the World Bank has sought to apply and adapt these principles to the particular case of conflict-affected countries. There is a focus on the need to rebuild communities and their social capital from the bottom up by adopting a community-driven development (CDD) approach, which acknowledges that local communities possess the core skills, incentives and organizational capacity to decide on and implement a large number of projects to meet shorter-term reconstruction needs.
The CDD and Social Capital Team, in collaboration with the Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction Unit and the World Bank Institute, are working to better understand the linkages and potential between conflict and community-driven development, including how to measure the impact of a CDD approach on social capital in conflict-affected areas of Indonesia.
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