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volume 51 | May 2017 Dear C
volume 51 | May 2017 Dear CDD Community of Practice Members, In May, we undertook a number of CDD learning and outreach events that emphasized the challenges of working in fragile and conflict affected contexts. This included a seminar looking at what’s next for CDD in Afghanistan, panel presentations on a social cohesion index in the Kyrgyz Republic’s CDD program, a meeting with the Minister for Temporary Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons of Ukraine to discuss how CDD could help address Ukraine’s ongoing conflict, and a panel discussion on CDD operations in fragile, conflict-affected, and violent environments, looking specifically at South Sudan, Iraq, and Afghanistan. There are more details in the Past Events section, with presentation and video links. A big thank you to those in our community who contributed their time and expertise to these events, including Scott Guggenheim, Vara Vemuru, Holly Benner, Ghassan Alkhoja, Robert Wrobel, and Sima Kanaan, as well as any others we might have left out. This issue of the newsletter highlights stories on how CDD is helping communities in Myanmar and East Africa across sectors as diverse as basic service delivery and water. The Myanmar article also features short videos on the project’s different phases of planning, implementation, and sub-project completion that could be of interest to other project teams. We’re also featuring a blog post on how a social fund in Iraq might be key to rebuilding trust between citizens and the state. Other resources of interest include research on community capacity building in China, an impact evaluation of Morocco’s national CDD program, and an assessment of community-organized groups in a Pakistan CDD program. We’re also soliciting help from our community: the Iraq team is looking for lessons related to operating and implementing CDD projects in fragile and conflict-affected contexts, while our colleages from Nigeria are seeking examples of how other projects calculate the value of in-kind contributions. We have more details on their inquiries under CoP Queries and Responses, and you can send your responses to cddgsg@worldbank.org. Resources For those with access to the World Bank intranet, the CDD cluster maintains a library of useful CDD resources.  Operational and knowledge r

esources  TORs  CDD consul
esources  TORs  CDD consultants roster  CDD Project Database If you have any such materials or resources that you feel would benefit the CoP, please share them with us. As always, we are eager to hear from you and learn about other CDD-related happenings or news from around the world. Please share any relevant information and materials that you feel would benefit our community. Thanks and regards, Sean STAY IN TOUCH! The Community-Driven Development CoP connects peers, thought leaders, and practitioners across governments, diverse agencies, and academia, to share ideas and experiences on CDD, Community-based, and Participatory approaches. This CoP is facilitated by the Global Programs Unit of the Global Practice for Social, Urban, Rural, and Resilience at the World Bank, with inputs from around the world. To share papers, project news, interesting blogs, or upcoming events on CDD and other relevant themes with the CDD CoP, please email the main CDD email (cddgsg@worldbank.org), or if you prefer, Galen Tan (gtan1@worldbank.org), Kaori Oshima (koshima@worldbank.org) and Sean Bradley (sbradley@worldbank.org), and we'll incorporate these in the next CDD "What's Happening" newsletter. The World Bank also maintains the CDD Global Solutions Group, which supports the Bank’s internal community of CDD practitioners. If you are a World Bank staff member who would like to receive CDD-related information more regularly, please join the GSG. Click below to join: Feature Story: On the Frontlines of Community Development in Myanmar World Bank Myanmar’s National Community Driven Development Project is a “people-centered” approach to rural development, focusing on engagement with communities in poor underserved rural areas. Started four years ago, it has since renovated almost 1,500 schools and built over 2,300 kilometers of foot paths and access roads. Now in its fourth cycle, the project is active in almost 8,800 villages in 47 townships across the country. The article also features videos on the project’s different stages: planning, implementation, and completion. Feature Story: Citizen Voices Shape Nile Basin Resilience Investments Join the GSG World Bank Over 200 million people live in the basin of the world’s longest river

. For them, the waters of the Nile River
. For them, the waters of the Nile River are a vital economic lifeline. Involvement of local stakeholders in development planning has led to win-win solutions benefiting communities across national borders. Consultations with local leaders, women’s groups, farmers, and fishers have resulted in adjustments to the technical design of the large-scale dam that reduced the need for resettlement from tens of thousands to just over 500 people. Research Paper: Understanding the Process of Community Capacity-Building: A Case Study of Two Programs in Yunnan Province, China Juan M. Morenoa, Lori M. Noguchi, Marie K. Harder. World Development, May 2017 The authors present a descriptive case-study of two community capacity building (CCB) programs in Yunnan, China, examining how capacity is understood by individuals, institutions, and communities, and which capacities are identified and built at each level. The authors show that while there are expected differences in the perceptions of the CCB process and outcomes at different levels, there are also clear overlaps, and that capacities develop simultaneously at different levels, in an interactive and mutually reinforcing manner. Public Policy Working Paper: Southern-Area Development Programme: How Communities Groups Function Musharraf Cyan, Michael Price, Mark Rider. Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, May 2017 The authors evaluate the Southern Area Development Project (SADP), a CDD program that operates in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Province, through surveys. Analysis of the survey responses suggests that the Economic Interest Groups and Clustered Economic Income Groups that local communities have organized themselves into are generally successful in terms of institutional performance measures. Working Paper: Evaluation de l’impact de l’Initiative Nationale pour le Développement Humain (INDH) sur la pauvreté en milieu rural au Maroc, une étude en enquête panel de ménages [French] Mohamed Benkassmi, Touhami Abdelkhalek and Fouzia Ejjanoui. Economic Research Forum, April 2017 The authors conduct an impact evaluation of Morocco’s National Human Development Initiative (INDH) using data from three waves (2008, 2011, and 2013) of a household panel survey. The most important impacts are found for economic outputs, between 2008 and 2011. The program effects seem to dissipate greatly b

etween 2011 and 2013. For human develo
etween 2011 and 2013. For human development and multidimensional poverty indicators, the authors’ results show a general improvement in 2011 and 2013, in comparison with 2008. Blog: Iraq Social Fund for Development: Optimism and the rebuilding of trust between citizens and the state Ghassan Alkhoja on World Bank’s Voices and Views: Middle East and North Africa. Recent developments in Iraq suggest that a community-based approach applied through a social fund operation could help strengthen the foundation for sustainable, inclusive growth, and peace and stability in Iraq by supporting community engagement, delivery of basic infrastructure and services, and short-term job opportunities. The World Bank, as an active and trusted partner in Iraq, is looking to this intervention as it plans its engagement with the country for the next five years. Seminar: Community-Driven Development in Afghanistan: Investing in Communities and Responding to Crises Co-hosted by the CDD Global Solutions Group and the Security, Peace and Stability Global Solutions Group  Tuesday, May 9, 2017|| Washington, DC  Video recording [Bank-internal] Scott Guggenheim and Khyber Farahi, advisors to the President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, discussed the origins and current status of community-driven development work in Afghanistan and how the CDD approach fits into the Government’s broader national development strategy. They also discussed the government’s National Policy Framework for Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons and how the community platform will be used to help provide emergency support for some 1.7 million returnees and displaced in 2017. BBL: Social Cohesion and Community-Driven Development in Fragile Environments: Lessons from Kyrgyz Republic and Beyond Co-hosted by World Bank GSURR; CDD Global Solutions Group; the Aga Khan Foundation; and the State and Peace-building Fund  Wednesday, May 10, 2017|| Washington, DC  Presentation The Kyrgyz Republic’s ‘Social Cohesion Through Community Based Approaches (SoCo)” Project, financed by the World Bank’s State- and Peace-Building Trust Fund and the Aga Khan Foundation, was launched in 2013, with the objective of identifying, piloting, and building capacity for social cohesion mechanisms in CDD interventions. The workshop will bring together SoCo project partners – Th

e Aga Khan Foundation, Stockholm Inter
e Aga Khan Foundation, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and the University of Central Asia – to present the ‘social cohesion index’ developed through the project and lessons from pilot CDD programming focused on enhancing social cohesion outcomes. Roundtable Discussion: CDD in FCV Contexts: Afghanistan, Iraq, and South Sudan  Thursday, May 11, 2017 || Washington, DC  Video recording [Bank-internal] Task team members working on CDD projects in conflict-affected contexts (Afghanistan, Iraq, and South Sudan) presented their projects and discussed some of their highest priority challenges in effectively executing their programs, including on scaling up, working in active conflict, and rebuilding trust between citizens and the state. Query: Call for Insights / Documents on CDD in FCV for Iraq Operation The MENA social protection team is in the early stage of preparing a social fund/CDD type operation (the Iraq Social Fund for Development) to hopefully help to provide basic services and short-term employment to communities in three governorates of Iraq. The task team reached out to the CDD GSG to organize a brainstorming session on experiences and lessons learned in designing and implementing CDD type operations in FCV contexts. It's expected that this will be the first of many such exchanges with the team as they prepare this critical emergency operation. Query: Valuing In-Kind Contributions by Poor Communities The task team for the Community and Social Development Project in Nigeria is looking for good examples from other CDD projects on how to value community level in-kind contributions. Currently, they feel that their approach, a 3-step process weighing relevance, benefits, and risks; setting parameters for costing in-kind contributions; and jointly valuing in-kind contribution, undervalues the non-cash contributions of the poor, especially labor. If you feel that you may have some experiences, lessons learned, and/or materials worth sharing with the team, please pass on to the GSG (cddgsg@worldbank.org). G L O B A L P R O G R A M S U N I T -- G S U R R | T H E W O R L D B A N K | C D D G S G @ W O R L D B A N K. O R G Sent to GSG_CDD Extended; CDD Community of Practice Group – Bank; CDD Community of Practice Group - Non-Bank; and SUR GP Extended via BCC