Mobilizing Assets for Community Driven Development

1. Mobilizing Assets for Community Driven Development Coady International Institute Sep 23 -October 11 2013 Coady International Institute 2013

2. Institutions as Assets Coady International Institute 2013

3. The ideal scenario • Communities are organized. • They mobilize their own assets through strong associations • They leverage external assets from responsive institutions • Leadership links a community’s capacity to organize with the incentives to organize in the policy, program, or market environment • Sometimes that leadership is in the community, sometimes in a mid-level institution Coady International Institute 2013

4. Inside out public service Community Organizing (associations) Institutions & Programs Policies, Markets, etc. Coady International Institute 2013

5. INTERNAL Kebele administration Multi-purpose service cooperative Primary school Health post Farmers training center Orthodox Church Protestant Church Traditional Qalluu Institution Gadaa Institution EXTERNAL Woreda administration (LG) Hundee (NGO) Oxfam Canada (INGO) Micro Finance Institution (Busa Gonafa) Cut-flower business Examples of local institutions identified in Ilu Aga, Ethiopia Coady International Institute 2013

6. Different types of institutions in Bungoma District, Kenya • Local and district government branches • National government: • Kenya Agricultural Research Institute • NGOs • Churches • Private sector organizations: • Produce buyer • Nzoia sugar company • Honeycare Africa • Kenya Agriculture Commodity Exchange • K-REP Coady International Institute 2013

7. Public policy instruments and programs, Bungoma District • District Focus for Rural Development (DFRD) • Community Development Trust Fund • Local Authorities Transfer fund (LATEF) • Constituency Development Fund • Kenya Roads Levy Fund • The Constituency AIDS control committee • The Constituency Education Bursary Fund • National Agriculture and Livestock Extension Program (NALEP) Coady International Institute 2013

8. Non-government and private sector organizations, Bungoma District • CSOs/NGOs • CREADIS • SACRED • Heart Network Africa • Heifer International • Corporations • Nzoia Sugar Company • Private service organisations • Kenya Agriculture Commodity Exchange • Micro Finance Institutions • K-REP Coady International Institute 2013

9. Accessing institutions: Leadership • Good leaders tend to mean wider networks, greater external support, and thus a more active organization. • Weak leaders lead to little external support and moribund organization. • Anthony Bebbington Coady International Institute 2013

10. Institutions can support and invest by: • Lending space, facilities, equipment • Providing services and programmes it is responsible for • Linking communities with other institutions and services • Using its purchasing power – i.e. purchasing from local producers Coady International Institute 2013

11. Identify the most important local institutions in your community, or that serve your community • Public sector: Local government organizations, health care centre, school, library, national research institutions • Private sector: Banks, formal enterprises, corporations, cooperatives • NGOs, including churches Coady International Institute 2013

12. Which institutions would you approach to invest in what you are doing? Identify 3 institutions and explain your choice. Coady International Institute 2013

13. The relationships between Associations and Institutions (RCDC – MARD, Vietnam) Coady International Institute 2013

14. Identify institutional assets that can responsively invest in your community-driven action plan (more ambitious) Coady International Institute 2013