if we build it, will it last? capacity strengthening through a cccd approach_patricia murray_4.23.13
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Promising Futures, Community by Community
Capacity Strengthening Through A CCCD Approach
If We Build It, Will It Last?
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CCCD: Child Centered Community Development• CCCD is Plan’s right-based
approach to making programs, ensuring we work with children and youth locally to tackle the root causes of poverty.
• CCCD involves raising awareness about the rights of every child and building capacity and commitment of those responsible for ensuring these rights.
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Lessons from Plan’s Procurement Reform
Deliverables
Collaborative Partnerships
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Plan’s Lessons Learned from 30 Years of Local Capacity Development (LCD)
• Partnerships sometimes aspirational
• “Quick wins” trump sustainability• Not enough “patient” funding• Need LCD instruments that build
ownership• Need to increase citizen inclusion
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• Jeopardize autonomy, longevity, identity, mission
• Sacrifice long-term interests for short-term financial security
• Implement activities on ad hoc basis• Risk weakening relationship with
communities
Risks faced by LNGO/CSOs
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• 2008 to 2011 in 15 Countries• 4 continents: Africa, Asia and
Latin America• 16 countries including Sierra
Leone, Cambodia, NicaraguaImprove services by engaging citizens and local government staff, leaders
“ After the training, the youth went to the chiefs and explained the project. The chiefs invited others and discussed how they could integrate
youth. The existing Village Development Committees were dismantled and elections were held to include youth.”
Area Development Committee Elder
Youth Governance
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The main strategies for the participation of children and youths include:
• Their inclusion in project management committees
• The putting in place of a youth committee in all communities and at all administrative levels (village, district, municipality and province)
• The support to children/youth committees to execute activities of their own action plans.
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Citizenship Capacity Built in 3 years:• 424 active youth groups established that formed 18 youth networks• Youth conducted 880 community awareness raising events• 138 advocacy activities held by youth with local government
officials• Youth gained seats on 466 local government mechanisms• Gained access to 12 set-aside funds for youth programs• 486 community development projects implemented by• young people• 265 governance policies supporting young citizens• 781 monitoring and accountability initiatives implemented by young
people• 160,000 young people accessing improved services globally
Having gained access, many young citizens were able to influence decision making
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Governance Capacity Built in 3 years
• LCD focused on school officials, district health staff, municipal government staff, city councils and mayors
• Shorter route to boost accountability, transparency, results• 339 government plans made or revised for youth agenda• Youth provided social accountability for 780 gov’t efforts
Government responded to youth requests, delivering new social services to 208,000
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How We Make It Work?
• USAID and Multi-lateral grants support only part of Plan’s longer-term field presence
• Build CSOs/LNGOs & Local Gov’t• For short-term service delivery
and long-term ownership, sustainability
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Thank You!
For more information, please contact:Patricia Murray, Program Associate
Plan International [email protected]