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Scaling Up Community-Driven Development : Theoretical Underpinnings and Program Design Implications

ACCESS TO INFORMATION ACCOUNTABILITY AUDITS AUTHORITY BENEFICIARY PARTICIPATION BUREAUCRAT CAPACITY BUILDING CENTRAL AGENCIES CENTRAL GOVERNMENT CENTRAL GOVERNMENTS CITIZENS COLLABORATION COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY CAPACITY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT COMMUNITY HEALTH COMMUNITY LEADERS COMMUNITY MEMBERS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS COMMUNITY WORKERS COMMUNITY-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE CONFLICT RESOLUTION DECENTRALIZATION DECISION MAKING DECISION-MAKING DISTRICTS E-COMMERCE E-GOVERNANCE ELITES ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES EXECUTION EXPENDITURES EXTENSION AGENTS EXTERNALITIES FACILITATORS FEDERATIONS FIELD TESTING FINANCIAL RESOURCES FINANCIAL VIABILITY FISCAL FISCAL CAPACITIES FISCAL COSTS FISCAL DECENTRALIZATION FORESTS GOOD GOVERNANCE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS GRAMEEN BANK HEALTH WORKERS INCOME INFORMATION SYSTEMS INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS INSTITUTIONAL BARRIERS INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK LEARNING LOBBYING LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS LOCAL LEVEL INSTITUTIONS LOCAL TAXES MARGINALIZED GROUPS MEDIA MORTALITY MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTS NATURAL RESOURCES NEIGHBORHOODS OVERHEAD COSTS PA PARTICIPATORY PROCESS PARTICIPATORY PROCESSES PARTICIPATORY WORKSHOPS PASTURES PHONES PILOT PROJECTS POLICY RESEARCH POLITICIANS PRIVATE SECTOR PRODUCERS PROGRAMS PROPERTY RIGHTS PROPERTY VALUES PUBLIC SECTOR RADIO RECLAMATION SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL FUNDS SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT T&V TEACHERS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TECHNICAL NEEDS TECHNICAL SPECIALISTS TECHNOLOGICAL OPTIONS TELEPHONES TRADEOFFS TRAINING MATERIALS TRANSPARENCY WATER SUPPLY WATERSHED WILLINGNESS TO PAY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM DESIGN STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION COFINANCING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE WILLINGNESS TO PAY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
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World Bank, Washington, DC
Africa | East Asia and Pacific | Europe and Central Asia | Latin America & Caribbean | South Asia
2014-05-14T20:09:46Z | 2014-05-14T20:09:46Z | 2003-03

Community-driven development boasts many islands of success, but these have not scaled up to cover entire countries. Binswanger and Aiyar examine the possible obstacles to scaling up, and possible solutions. They consider the theoretical case for community-driven development and case studies of success in both sectoral and multisectoral programs. Obstacles to scaling up include high economic and fiscal costs, adverse institutional barriers, problems associated with the co-production of outputs by different actors on the basis of subsidiarity, lack of adaptation to the local context using field-tested manuals, and lack of scaling-up logistics. The authors consider ways of reducing economic and fiscal costs, overcoming hostile institutional barriers, overcoming problems of co-production, adapting to the local context with field testing, and providing scaling-up logistics. Detailed annexes and checklists provide a guide to program design, diagnostics, and tools.

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