Community-Driven Development (CDD) Additional Financing

Building on the successful experience of the PCF-funded CDD pilot, the proposed project would scale-up the direct transfer of public resources to local community organizations in poor rural and peri-urban communities, by: (i) improving their access to basic social and economic infrastructure and support income-generating activities by financing small-scale investments proposed, implemented and managed by community organizations; and (ii) improving governance and building social capital of communities by increasing citizen participation and transparency in open decision-making processes. Key indicators for the project would be (i) total resources transferred to OCBs over the life of the project; (ii) change in access to basic services as a function of subprojects implemented by OCBs; (iii) cost-effectiveness of infrastructure investments, compared with traditional service delivery mechanisms, and (iv) cost-benefit of productive subprojects.