VI th ANNUAL DONOR MEETING 9-11 May 2006 Casa San Bernardo - Rome, Italy

1.  Outcomes of the Regional Workshop on Community-Driven Development: The Way Forward VIth ANNUAL DONOR MEETING9-11 May 2006Casa San Bernardo - Rome, Italy Mohamed Manssouri, IFAD

2. Washington 2005: Outcomes on CDD/Local development General consensus • Supporting local development operations and global intervention principles • Need for a more comprehensive approach at both central and decentralized levels • Two different but complementary approaches based on the communities and the territory • Difficulty to measure real impact of local development projects • Need for more focused local development projects Perspectives • Need to exchange on operational aspects for better harmonization and better quality of interventions • Platform to be spearheaded by IFAD and UNCDF Way forward • Electronic conference • Regional Workshop

3. Electronic conference • October 2005 – March 2006 • A prelude to the regional workshop • Two hundred participants • Themes tackled : Definition, Principles, Menu, Targeting, Monitoring and Evaluation, Local Tax System, Institutional development • Outcomes • Definitions / concepts (partially) clarified • Key stakeholders identified • Issues and interrogations identified

4. Regional workshop : Objectives • Exchanges experiences and learn from each other • Latin America (Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador) • AFD (Benin, Senegal, Burkina Faso), ACORD (Chad), World Bank (Mali, Burkina, Senegal, Ghana), IFAD (Cape Verde; Ghana; Burkina, Mali; Senegal; Guinea, Mauritania), UNDP; Council of Europe; FAO; CIRAD; Dutch Cooperation; farmer organizations; local politicians; central and local governments • Between 15 to 20 projects and operations • Clarify meanings and issues regarding CDD approaches, and identify issues for further research • Define decision tools and guidelines for CDD activities including specific indicators for benchmarking and measuring results • Explore the creation of a platform for knowledge sharing and learning on CDD in WCA

5. Learning from the regional workshop 1/3 Meanings and definitions of concepts relating to CDD • CDD is about empowering communities to drive their own development • CDD is a matter of degree (level of empowerment, accountability of the institutions…) • Choice of domain: need to be governed by principle of subsidiarity • CDD models linking communities to civil society organizations in addition to local government tend to promote more pluralistic governance arrangements and to generate more solidarity • Equity is at the centre of CDD approaches: Community Development is about more rational and efficient public choice • Poverty is addressed by CDD through social cohesion; • As the poverty agenda tends to be lost at higher institutional levels, CDD is an appropriate instrument for poverty reduction • Inter community (area-based) targeting is easier; intra-community targeting is practicable if based on intra-community social cohesion and solidarity mechanisms • Community Development is a means for promoting citizenship • CDD can be combined with other approaches : clusters (filières), NRM…

6. Learning from the regional workshop 2/3 Approaches and methods of CDD • Asset-based approach would lead to more self reliant responses, build more self esteem and unleash local initiatives and energy (Cf. Latin America) • Community’s needs or project’s ability and mandate that should determine the menu of development? • Importance of local and beneficiary contribution • Citizenship, solidarity economy, fair trade, social cohesion Agreement on the DT • Need to operationalize / apply them within the context of the ongoing programs • Need to translate them in practical / measurable benchmarks and indicators for monitoring results

7. Learning from the regional workshop 3/3 A few Innovations identified • Positive discrimination to promote gender equity • Decentralized cooperation • Communication as a direct means for empowerment (mobile video, rural radio…) • Combination of CDD with private sector-based approaches (Micro-enterprise / microfinance / filière development) • Composite planning and budgeting: use of the web-based tools to share information and reduce transaction costs

8. Way Forward 1/2 Apply the learning of the workshop to existing and new CDD ventures: • Refine and operationalize the Decision Tools • Develop benchmarks, indicators and monitoring tools • Consolidate and articulate the various approaches to CDD Promote learning and knowledge management in the WCA Region at project, country and regional levels:  • “Capitalize” project’s knowledge (Fidafrique) • Promote and facilitate exchange and learning amongst partners • Promote dialogue between projects and countries (Platform) • Facilitate and promote the identification, documentation and sharing of CDD ‘innovations’

9. Way Forward 2/2 Help mainstream CDD within IFAD: Develop an approach/concept paper on CDD • Facilitate a corporate approach to CDD within IFAD • Advocate and promote the adoption of CDD approaches in the other regional divisions • Promote the CDD Decision Tools Help mainstream Institutional Analysis in IFAD:  • Refine the institutional analysis method • Establish an informal working group of ‘trainees’ of the institutional analysis training workshops • Table institutional analysis issues and implications • Provide training in institutional analysis Hold an annual review for learning and strategic planning

10.  Thank youVIth ANNUAL DONOR MEETING9-11 May 2006Casa San Bernardo - Rome, Italy