An Assessment of Implementation of Community Driven Development Approach: The Case of Oromia Pastoral Community Development Project
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2021-07-05
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Addis Ababa University
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The major purpose of this study was to assess implementation of Community Driven Development approach: the case of Oromia Pastoral Community Development Project. CDD focuses on strengthening the capacity of rural communities to play a greater role in their own development.
While the CDD approach successfully generated new political rationalities and governmental technologies, the ability of development programming driven by social capital concepts to empower marginalized sections of society remains in question .For the accomplishment of this research, the study were employed descriptive Survey design in which the selections of the respondents were carried out by using purposive sampling techniques and select 51respondents ( 11 from region,25 from Mobile Support Team & 14 from woreda(district) who participated in implementation of CDD approach in Oromia region. Closed ended questionnaires using Likert 5 scales distributed to these selected 51 respondents. The response rate was 45. The data collected was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20, which is appropriate for this descriptive statistics. For statistical interpretation, descriptive and inferential statistics were used. The findings indicate that the independent variables community leadership, practice of CDD approach, community empowerment and community participation have positive correlation with the dependent variable performance of CDD projects. The study recommends educating the target communities in order to include marginalized and vulnerable groups in positions of leadership, empower communities by encouraging them to make their own decisions and provide informed consent, better to conduct separate discussions for women and youth in order their need and voice be heard and engage communities directly through public calls for meetings without establishing community channels in mobilizing communities to participate in the project.
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Community Demand driven, community participation, community leadership, community empowerment