2002, The World Bank
Africa region have performed better than the region's projects as a whole. Yet only one in five of the community-based development projects were likely to be sustainable, no better than the Africa-wide average of 28%, and significantly less than projects in South Asia (47%) or Latin America and the Caribbean (54%).
From May 2001 to June 2002, a core team of World Bank staff and consultants, as well as NGO and government partners, engaged in participatory action-research in eighteen villages in Niger, Benin and Cameroon, with the generous support of the World Bank's Community- Driven Development (CDD) team for Africa. The team initiated this action-research in order to develop a locally appropriate monitoring and evaluation system, to help communities sustain the results of their community development projects.
Moreover, as the More proverb suggests, communities cannot be independent without their own tools and resources. Communities can use the approach developed here to achieve and renew their local development goals, with or without significant external assistance.
