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Sharing Knowledge on Community-Driven Development

in Asia and the Pacific

Regional Conference on Community-Driven Developm31 January 2012 Auditorium Zones C and D, ADB Headquarters, Manila, Philipp

The Neighborhood Upgrading and Shelter SectoProject in Indonesia. Draws lessons from the urban

CDD project by examining the extent to which the

project contributed to improvements in service delivery

and governance in the urban communities;

The Saemaul Undong Movement in the Republic

of Korea. Documents the experience from Saemau

Undong movement in the 1970s particularly in

improving agricultural production and household

income, communal empowerment and regeneration

and womens participation in community affairs, and

identifies the lessons learned from this experience; and

The KALAHI-CIDSS Project in the Philippines

Assesses the extent to which the CDD project has

contributed improvements in service delivery and loca

governance in rural communities and offers lessons

and implications for policy and practice particularly on

sustaining the institutional impacts of the project;

These insightful country studies are being shared through

the Regional Conference on CDD, and the CDD learning

network that has been created to promote peer support

policy discussion, and knowledge sharing among network

members in Asia and the Pacific.

Contact

Yukiko ItoSocial Development Specialist

Poverty Reduction, Gender, and Social Development Division

Regional and Sustainable Development Department

Asian Development Bank

Email: yito@adb.org

Community-driven development (CDD) is an approachthat reduces poverty, improves governance, and promotes

inclusion. It empowers communities by giving them control

over planning decisions and investment resources for local

development projects.1 The CDD approach offers benefits

such as lower cost of infrastructure projects with equal or

better quality than those implemented by government, lower

incidence of corruption, high participation of women and

the poor, and job generation, especially during economic

downturns. Introduced in the mid-1990s, CDD projects have

been implemented in more than 100 countries, at least a

quarter of which are in Asia and the Pacific.

ADB adopts five elements in defining CDD: a community

focus, participatory planning and design, community control

of resources, community involvement in implementation,

and use of community-based participatory monitoring

and evaluation to ensure downward accountability to the

community. Since 2001, ADB has financed 80 projects with

strong CDD features, including some projects adopting all

the CDD elements.

ADBs Long-Term Strategic Framework (Strategy 2020)

reaffirms ADBs commitment to reduce poverty in the region.

In addition, Strategy 2020 adopts inclusive growth as one

of its three strategic objectives, along with environmentallysustainable growth and regional integration. CDD contributes

to achieving inclusive growth by ensuring that poor

communities and socially excluded people take part in and

benefit from development. The approach also enhances the

impact and sustainability of poverty reduction initiatives.

As part of its continuing support to CDD, ADBs regional

technical assistanceSharing Knowledge on CDD in Asia and

the Pacific (RETA 7543) aims to strengthen the capacity of

ADB developing member countries (DMCs) to apply CDD

approaches and scale up operations through knowledge

sharing and cooperation among participating countries and

institutions. This project has produced four country studies:

The CDD Pilot Project in the Peoples Republic of

China (PRC). Summarizes the experience, impacts and

lessons learned from the implementation of the CDD

Pilot Project from 2006 to 2009 and identifies the factors

that influenced the effectiveness of CDD approach in

alleviating poverty in PRC;

1 World Bank. 2003. The World Bank PRSP Sourcebook. Washington DC (Chapter 9-Community Driven Development).