Indonesia's Kecamatan Development Project : Is it replicable? Design considerations in community driven development

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The following study identifies the features of Kecamatan Development Project (KDP) and the Indonesian sociopolitical landscape that contribute to its successful implementation, and to the general knowledge base for those development practitioners who may want to replicate or adapt the KDP design elsewhere. The objectives of the second KDP project are to: (i) support participatory planning and development management in villages; (ii) support a broad program of social and economic infrastructure construction in poor villages; and (iii) strengthen local formal and informal institutions by making them more inclusive, accountable, and effective at meeting villagers' self-identified development needs. The objective to raise rural incomes, included in the first KDP project,was dropped, due to the difficulty of measurement and to the primacy of the overarching objective-creating participatory institutions and processes. The essence of the program according to the report is establishing vital p

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