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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Main Author: Guggenheim, Scott
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: 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
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spelling okr-10986-363572021-10-14T05:10:42Z Origins of Community-Driven Development : Indonesia and the Kecamatan Development Program Guggenheim, Scott COMMUNITY-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL ANALYSIS WOMEN'S VOICE RURAL DEVELOPMENT ANTHROPOLOGY LOCAL INSTITUTIONS STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT 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. 2021-10-13T15:30:55Z 2021-10-13T15:30:55Z 2021-04 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/548791632334335638/Origins-of-Community-Driven-Development-Indonesia-and-the-Kecamatan-Development-Program http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36357 English Development Reflections; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper East Asia and Pacific Indonesia
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topic COMMUNITY-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT
SOCIAL ANALYSIS
WOMEN'S VOICE
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
ANTHROPOLOGY
LOCAL INSTITUTIONS
STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT
spellingShingle COMMUNITY-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT
SOCIAL ANALYSIS
WOMEN'S VOICE
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
ANTHROPOLOGY
LOCAL INSTITUTIONS
STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT
Guggenheim, Scott
Origins of Community-Driven Development : Indonesia and the Kecamatan Development Program
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description 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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title Origins of Community-Driven Development : Indonesia and the Kecamatan Development Program
title_short Origins of Community-Driven Development : Indonesia and the Kecamatan Development Program
title_full Origins of Community-Driven Development : Indonesia and the Kecamatan Development Program
title_fullStr Origins of Community-Driven Development : Indonesia and the Kecamatan Development Program
title_full_unstemmed Origins of Community-Driven Development : Indonesia and the Kecamatan Development Program
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