新作坊

Community driven development in the local government system: a new strategy

摘要：

Community driven development (CDD) potentially constitutes an important approach in the repertoire of development interventions because it is designed to place less stress on government line agencies by optimizing the use of community actors, yet at the same time reach very large numbers of poor people. Determining whether this approach is worth supporting requires rigorous evaluation to assess CDD's effectiveness in various settings. Social services provisioning are failing poor urban and rural people in the developing world, and poverty remains concentrated in rural areas and urban slums. This paper focuses on how local governments in Nigeria can be empowered to contribute to their own development and, in the process, improve infrastructure, governance, services, and economic and social development, that is, ultimately, the broad range of activities for sustainable poverty reduction. The paper concludes by positing that capacity support, technical institutions and nongovernmental institutions are key to local government support which is central to CDD.