Origins of Community-Driven Development : Indonesia and the Kecamatan Development Program
One of the big development challenges of the twentieth century has been defining the role that poor people, the subjects of development, could and should be playing in modern development. The author, a founding father of community-driven developmen...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/548791632334335638/Origins-of-Community-Driven-Development-Indonesia-and-the-Kecamatan-Development-Program http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36357 |
| Summary: | One of the big development challenges of
the twentieth century has been defining the role that poor
people, the subjects of development, could and should be
playing in modern development. The author, a founding father
of community-driven development at the World Bank Group,
sets out a personal history of how he came to apply core
concepts from anthropology, history, and sociology in
pursuit of the moral project of finding ways to engage
people not just as individual beneficiaries or targets for
development, but as social and political beings whose
institutions, priorities, values, and voice matter.
Beginning with the Kecamatan Development Project in
Indonesia (KDP), this essay charts the author’s journey,
starting with the puzzle of how to enable agency for
villagers when someone else holds most of the power and all
of the money. Indonesia’s historical interest in rural
development created an opening, but it was the 1998
political and economic crisis that cracked not just the
Indonesian development model but also the World Bank’s
strictly technocratic approach to poverty. The essay then
moves from community-driven development in Indonesia to
developing a model that the World Bank could work with more
broadly, and the technical, fiduciary, and bureaucratic
innovations required throughout. The author reflects on the
mainstreaming of community-driven development in the
aftermath of KDP, describing the personalities and processes
that presented both inspiration and hurdles along the way. |
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