Substantial evidence demonstrates that community-driven development (CDD) approaches are more effective than other approaches to basic infrastructure development. Evidence also indicates that CDD is likely to offer better cost recovery and maintenance of completed infrastructure facilities and services because of the strong sense of ownership of the community members. In addition, CDD leads to better accountability. Transparency in decision making and procurement and increased use of audits have demonstrably reduced corruption and leakage of public funds. Sufficient time is needed to support and strengthen community participation and capacity to prioritize, design, implement, manage, and monitor project investments. [Main text, para. 65(iii)]
Rural Infrastructure Support to the PNPM Mandiri Project