Fostering Community-Driven Development : What Role for the State?

Das Gupta, Monica ; Grandvoinnet, Helene ; Romani, Mattia

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: COMMUNITY-BASED DEVELOPMENT;    RESOURCES UTILIZATION;    DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY;    POLICY FORMATION;    LAND REFORM;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-2969
RP-ID  :  WPS2969

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

States can do much to tapcommunity-level energies, and resources for development, ifthey seek to interact more synergistically with localcommunities. The broader spin-off is creating adevelopmental society, and polity. Using case studies fromAsia and Latin America, the authors show how: 1) Stateefforts to bring about land reform, tenancy reform, andexpanding non-crop sources of income, can broaden thedistribution of power in rural communities, laying the basisfor more effective community-driven collective action; and2) Higher levels of government can form alliances withcommunities, putting pressure on local authorities fromabove, and below to improve development outcomes at thelocal level. These alliances can also be very effective incatalyzing collective action at community level, andreducing :local capture" by vested interests. There areseveral encouraging points that emerge from these casestudies. First, these powerful institutional changes do notnecessarily take long to generate. Second, they can beachieved in a diversity of settings: tightly knit orloose-knit communities; war-ravaged, or relatively stable;democratic, or authoritarian; with land reform, or (ifcarefully managed) even without. Third, there are strongpolitical payoffs in terms of legitimacy, and popularsupport for those who support such developmental action.