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CDD = exercise of community control

This article discusses how Community-Driven Development (CDD) can enhance accountable, inclusive community groups, support participation by the poor, facilitate access to information and markets, and improve governance, institutions, and policies. It explores the key elements for effective decentralization, the challenges in structuring governments, and the importance of accountability and stability in local governments. Emphasizing the need for clarity, stability, and a balance between top-down and bottom-up approaches, the text highlights the role of CDD in building skills and accountability, supporting effective local government, and strengthening the overall framework for community development.

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CDD = exercise of community control

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  1. CDD = exercise of community control • Strengthening accountable, inclusive community groups • Supporting participation by poor people • Facilitating access to information & markets • Improving governance, institutions and policies

  2. Decentralization = devolution of decision making • Local governments accountable • People can “vote with their feet” • Information equally available • Monitoring is possible

  3. Bottom up vs. top down: both are needed…. Decentralization   CDD

  4. Key elements for effective decentralization • Clear legal framework • Expenditure assignments: who does what? • Revenue assignments: how much autonomy? • Clear and stable transfer systems

  5. The structure of Governments is still in flux...

  6. Strength of accountability varies

  7. Who should do what? • Legislation often vague • Many shared responsibilities • Unfunded mandates common • Functions often at wrong scale

  8. Localities have little autonomy over revenue

  9. Transfer systems have a long way to go…. • Objectives often muddled • Clarity and stability • vertical vs. horizontal balance • extent to which they reach lowest levels

  10. Key linkages • CDD’s role in building skills & accountability • Important that strengthening communities supports effective local government (building from the bottom) rather than creating parallel structures • Strengthening overall framework & its stability has key role to play in enabling communities

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