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Introduction

The Community-Driven Development (CDD) component seeks to empower communities to successfully identify, implement and sustain their development priorities. Its aim is to give community organisations authority and control over decisions and resources that affect their lives.

Specifically, this includes direct responsibility to manage their own internal resources and external matching grants in better ways, and to have the responsibility for planning and implementing investments they see as priorities.

The project strengthens the different capacities of communities so that even in its absence, they can have the confidence and trust of the representativeness and accountability of community structures.

The project recognises that participation is not a ?quick fix? but a learning process which takes time, resources, imagination and sometimes courage to implement it. It requires behavioral change on the part of many actors, calls into question old habits and often reveals conflict of interest because of the need for power-sharing.

CDD projects are typically implemented in a unit referred to as a ?community?. In most cases, the village corresponds to the lowest level administrative unit and has a legal and political identity. However, as for example in the pastoralist areas, the basic unit may comprise a collection of settlements.

The first issue that is normally considered is how far and wide the community is surveyed to assure that most, if not all, sub groups are included in the development process.

In our case the ?Community? is defined loosely to allow a variety of community groups in different social cultural settings to participate in Community Driven Development (CDD) process.

For example a ?community? could refer to any group of individuals with a common interest found within a traditional or local set up. While proposals may be generated that benefit the whole community, it is important to recognise that the word ?community? refers equally to sub-sets of these larger groups e.g. women groups, youth groups and common-interest groups, especially vulnerable groups.

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