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Sharing Knowledge on Community-Driven Development
in Asia and the Pacific
Regional Conference on Community-Driven Developm31 January 2012 Auditorium Zones C and D, ADB Headquarters, Manila, Philipp
The Neighborhood Upgrading and Shelter SectoProject in Indonesia. Draws lessons from the urban
CDD project by examining the extent to which the
project contributed to improvements in service delivery
and governance in the urban communities;
The Saemaul Undong Movement in the Republic
of Korea. Documents the experience from Saemau
Undong movement in the 1970s particularly in
improving agricultural production and household
income, communal empowerment and regeneration
and womens participation in community affairs, and
identifies the lessons learned from this experience; and
The KALAHI-CIDSS Project in the Philippines
Assesses the extent to which the CDD project has
contributed improvements in service delivery and loca
governance in rural communities and offers lessons
and implications for policy and practice particularly on
sustaining the institutional impacts of the project;
These insightful country studies are being shared through
the Regional Conference on CDD, and the CDD learning
network that has been created to promote peer support
policy discussion, and knowledge sharing among network
members in Asia and the Pacific.
Contact
Yukiko ItoSocial Development Specialist
Poverty Reduction, Gender, and Social Development Division
Regional and Sustainable Development Department
Asian Development Bank
Email: [email protected]
Community-driven development (CDD) is an approachthat reduces poverty, improves governance, and promotes
inclusion. It empowers communities by giving them control
over planning decisions and investment resources for local
development projects.1 The CDD approach offers benefits
such as lower cost of infrastructure projects with equal or
better quality than those implemented by government, lower
incidence of corruption, high participation of women and
the poor, and job generation, especially during economic
downturns. Introduced in the mid-1990s, CDD projects have
been implemented in more than 100 countries, at least a
quarter of which are in Asia and the Pacific.
ADB adopts five elements in defining CDD: a community
focus, participatory planning and design, community control
of resources, community involvement in implementation,
and use of community-based participatory monitoring
and evaluation to ensure downward accountability to the
community. Since 2001, ADB has financed 80 projects with
strong CDD features, including some projects adopting all
the CDD elements.
ADBs Long-Term Strategic Framework (Strategy 2020)
reaffirms ADBs commitment to reduce poverty in the region.
In addition, Strategy 2020 adopts inclusive growth as one
of its three strategic objectives, along with environmentallysustainable growth and regional integration. CDD contributes
to achieving inclusive growth by ensuring that poor
communities and socially excluded people take part in and
benefit from development. The approach also enhances the
impact and sustainability of poverty reduction initiatives.
As part of its continuing support to CDD, ADBs regional
technical assistanceSharing Knowledge on CDD in Asia and
the Pacific (RETA 7543) aims to strengthen the capacity of
ADB developing member countries (DMCs) to apply CDD
approaches and scale up operations through knowledge
sharing and cooperation among participating countries and
institutions. This project has produced four country studies:
The CDD Pilot Project in the Peoples Republic of
China (PRC). Summarizes the experience, impacts and
lessons learned from the implementation of the CDD
Pilot Project from 2006 to 2009 and identifies the factors
that influenced the effectiveness of CDD approach in
alleviating poverty in PRC;
1 World Bank. 2003. The World Bank PRSP Sourcebook. Washington DC (Chapter 9-Community Driven Development).