The paper discusses the possibility of mitigating the problem of Community-Driven Development (CDD), currently proposed as the main avenue to fighting poverty and circumventing the shortcomings of state-directed aid resources.
Title | The risk of resource misappropriation in community-driven development |
Publication Type | Miscellaneous |
Year of Publication | 2003 |
Authors | Platteau, J-P, Gaspart, F |
Pagination | 28 p. : 1 tab. |
Date Published | 2003-02-01 |
Publisher | Centre for Research on the Economics of Development (CRED) |
Place Published | Namur, Belgium |
Keywords | demand responsive approaches, development cooperation, efficiency, financing, non-governmental organizations, poverty, projects, sdipol, uebw |
Abstract | The paper discusses the possibility of mitigating the problem of Community-Driven Development (CDD), currently proposed as the main avenue to fighting poverty and circumventing the shortcomings of state-directed aid resources. One of the main difficulties in CDD programmes lies in their vulnerability to capture by local elites through a so-called leader-disciplining mechanism (LDM) that relies on a sequential disbursement procedure supported by a fraud detection mechanism. On the basis of the LDM framework, it is argued in particular that too quick and massive a rush on CDD may prove selfdefeating in the sense that the share of aid resources actually reaching the poor will be low if donor agencies are impatient to achieve results (Author's abstract) |
Notes | 54 ref. |
Custom 1 | 102, 123 |