Scaling up Local and Community Driven Development : A Real World Guide to Its Theory and Practice
Local and Community Driven Development (LCDD) is an approach that gives control of development decisions and resources to community groups and representative local governments. Poor communities receive funds, decide on their use, plan and execute t...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/334991468151478904/Scaling-up-Local-and-Community-Driven-Development-LCDD-a-real-world-guide-to-its-theory-and-practice http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28252 |
| Summary: | Local and Community Driven Development
(LCDD) is an approach that gives control of development
decisions and resources to community groups and
representative local governments. Poor communities receive
funds, decide on their use, plan and execute the chosen
local projects, and monitor the provision of services that
result from it. It improves not just incomes but
people's empowerment and governance capacity, the lack
of which is a form of poverty as well. LCDD operations have
demonstrated effectiveness at delivering results and have
received substantial support from the World Bank. Since the
start of this decade, our lending for LCDD has averaged
around US$2 billion per year. Through its support to local
and community-driven programs, the Bank has financed
services such as water supply and sanitation, health
services, schools that are tailored to community needs and
likely to be maintained and sustainable, nutrition programs
for mothers and infants, the building of rural access roads,
and support for livelihoods and micro enterprise. This eBook
brings together the thoughts and experiences of many of the
leading proponents and practitioners of LCDD, a phrase that
evolved from Community-Driven Development, and most clearly
describes the process of empowering communities and their
local governments so they drive economic and social
development upwards and outwards. This, too many, appears as
a new paradigm, though it has actually evolved over the
decades, since it emerged from India in the 1950s. While
many LCDD projects have taken root, the key challenge now is
how such islands of success, that is, the discrete LCDD
projects, can be scaled up into sustainable national
programs that build skills in decision-making, management,
and governance. |
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