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AREA BASED DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES Brussels (JRC headquarters) 6 and 7 September 2010

AREA BASED DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES Brussels (JRC headquarters) 6 and 7 September 2010. Area Based Recovery & Development can be defined as:.

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AREA BASED DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES Brussels (JRC headquarters) 6 and 7 September 2010

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  1. AREA BASED DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES Brussels (JRC headquarters) 6 and 7 September 2010

  2. Area Based Recovery & Development can be defined as: Targeting specific geographical areas in a country, characterized by particular and complex recovery and development problems, through an integrated, inclusive, participatory and flexible approach

  3. Area of intervention: typically smaller than the country itself (but can be cross-border) • 4 categories of problems to be addressed: • Conflict-related • Disaster-related • Poverty-related • Exclusion-related • ABD only appropriate if problem can be addressed at the level of the area • Aim is to make the area fully participate in and benefit from national recovery & development processes

  4. Integrated: multi-sector, multi-agency, multi-level • Inclusive: targets communities rather than specific groups and is non-discriminatory • Participatory: involving all stakeholders in planning, decision-making and implementation • Bottom-up approach: feeding into policy/ institutional reform through horizontal & vertical linkages • Flexible: tailor-made responses evolving with rapid changes in the area/ environment

  5. Not every project that intervenes at local or grassroots level is area based: • nation-wide local governance, decentralized planning or community development programmes • local piloting of national programmes • sector-specific programmes at local level • ABD is area-specific, not sector- or target group-specific

  6. Regional planning, decentralization & local governance programmes Area based recovery & development programmes Community development & integrated rural development programmes Programmes responding to crises, emergencies & post- conflict situations

  7. Deciding on an Area Based Approach: 1. Clearly identifiable area with unique or specific development setting 2. Area has complex & multi-dimensional development setting YES NO YES NO Area based approach MDG localization approach Sector or target group approach

  8. Defining the Area Based Intervention • Defining the target area – always based on existing territorial-administrative units • Assessing the specific situation – baseline, critical needs, priorities, ongoing interventions, etc. • Defining the programme – main outcome, objectives/results, level/scale/magnitude of interventions • Implementation & management arrangements

  9. Typical Components of ABD InterventionsPublic Administration & Participatory Governance • Planning, budget execution, public investment • Decentralization and self-governance • Mechanisms for dialogue and participation • Access to information, legal protection, human rights

  10. Typical Components of ABD InterventionsCommunity Empowerment • Community organization through social mobilization • Community-based self-help initiatives • Strengthening CSOs/NGOs

  11. Typical Components of ABD InterventionsBasic Infrastructure and Services • Small grant schemes • Larger infrastructure • Local procurement and sub-contracting • Sustainable management, operation and maintenance

  12. Typical Components of ABD InterventionsLocal Economic Development • Planning, policy, regulatory framework • Micro-, small- and medium-enterprise development • Vocational training & employment generation • Financial & non-financial business services • Farming, agriculture, agro-processing • Marketing, transport, storage, rural-urban linkages

  13. Typical Components of ABD InterventionsPolicy and Institutional Reform • Knowledge and practice networks • Independent research • Lobbying with Government/Parliament • Codifying practices into policies and laws • Replication of successful practices

  14. Typical Components of ABD InterventionsSome Conflict and Disaster-specific components • Restoring local government capacities • Building on community self-help initiatives • Emergency employment and restoration of livelihoods • Reintegration of returning refugees, IDPs, former combatants • Early warning systems, conflict prevention and disaster risk reduction • Community security and access to justice • Mine Action, restoring access by road, to land • Gender based violence, protection • Building Back Better • Social cohesion, conflict mediation

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