Welcome to the Community-Driven Development website!

We encourage you to check out all of the resources, documents, and discussions on the page. 

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Group Overview

The Community-Driven Development (CDD) Community of Practice is a dynamic, cross-disciplinary body of CDD practitioners, development partners, and other interested researchers from different countries and sectoral themes within and outside the World Bank. The Community of Practice (CoP) is facilitated by the secretariat anchored under the Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice (GSURR) of the World Bank. This website was created for the CoP members across the world to exchange ideas and learn, access useful operational resources, nurture innovations, and strengthen and expand partnership and resource mobilization. It is meant to be a “living” site and welcomes your active participation and contributions!

Local Economic Development Resource Page

Government clients and the World Bank task teams have expressed growing interest in enhancing livelihoods, income generation, and job creation through Community-Driven Development (CDD) and Local Economic Development (LED) approaches. Given this, we have developed this resource page as a one-stop-shop on CDD and livelihoods/LED materials. We encourage you to check out all of the resources and documents on the page.

Share with us!

To share papers, project news, interesting blogs, or upcoming events on CDD and other relevant themes with the CDD CoP, please email the CDD email (cddgsg@worldbank.org) and we'll incorporate these in the next "What's happening in CDD" newsletter.