CR TOOLKIT WORKSHOP

Development Opportunity Ranking (DOR)

ref ICMM CDToolkit#9Trainer: Robert Laua16 Aug, 2013CR Conference Room , Tabubil

Presentation Outline

1.0 Overview

2.0 Assessment steps

3.0 Ranking Criteria

4.0 Identifying overlapping Regional Frameworks of Interest

5.0 Group exercises and presentations

6.0 Discussions and conclusions

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Overview

What is Development Opportunity Ranking?

It is a planning tool

It involves a two step approach of assessment and planning processes

It involves members of a community identifying their major development priorities or concerns and than assess the best opportunities for achieving changes

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Five Assessment Steps

1. Initiate meeting with community leaders• Contact villages or communities through someone known to the

community e.g. a ward councilor• Discuss and evaluate existing interest and capacity in the

community to participate in CD planning activities. If this exist then make plans to conduct the exercise.

2. Development opportunity identification ( small groups)• Begins with community coming together but if segregation is

require then facilitate• Questions are asked to individuals and families before the village

view is discussed and agreed. Questions can be • What is most important for the future of your family?• What are the priority development needs for your community?

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Five Assessment Steps - Cont

3. Community level development opportunity consensus• Consensus from each small group is shared with other participants

in a plenary session and development opportunities are discussed collectively and prioritized for the village or community

• Community by consensus decide on the top 5 or 10 development priorities

4. Development opportunity ranking• Following on from step 3 the community will have a list of projects

or opportunities they want to pursue addressing the same development topic or a varied group.

• Not all of these opportunities will be addressed by the community themselves in the short, medium or long term. Therefore it is best to develop a set of criteria to use to assess the opportunities for each development themes.

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Five Assessment Steps - Cont

5. Identifying overlapping regional framework of interest – follow-up session

• For the development of an overall community development plan, in which the community and other development partners agree upon an integrated program of development for a future period of time.

• Partner will decide their relative frameworks of interests. For the communities this will be the priority development areas/needs identified as part of previous exercise.

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Community Ranking Criteria

Sustainability Can the community keep the project running by itself, after outside assistance is gone?

Productivity Will the project substantially increase the availability of needed resources?

Equitability Will the project benefit a broad cross- section of the community?

Cost Will large amounts of external funding be needed?

Community contribution

Will the community be able and willing to contribute to the project ( normally through an in-kind contribution)

Technical feasibility Does the project require specialized expertise both to start and maintain?

Social/cultural acceptability

Does the project fit within the community norms?

Time needed Will it take a long time for the community to reap the benefits of the project?

Key 0 - Nil 1 - Low 2 - Average 3 - High

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Overlapping Regional Framework

Step Action Description

1 Community framework of interest

Top priority development opportunities identified by the community during step 4

2 Regional stakeholders ‘ framework of interest

Company /government/NGO framework of interest

3 Identify overlapping frameworks of interest

Compare community and others framework of interests and identify overlapping interests several chosen to be developed as Community Action Plans ( tool 16).

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Government Interest NGO/CBO interests

Company interest

Overlapping Regional Framework of Interest - Cont

o Community interest

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Overlapping framework of interest