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CDRD Project in Somalia Helping Somalis Help Themselves

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Independent Impact Evaluation - March

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DRC and DDG Joint Strategy

Danish Refugee Council (DRC) and the Danish Demining Group (DDG) have now a joint strategy, named "Stabilization through community-driven safety and socio-economic recovery in Somalia".

The strategy operationalizes the principles of the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development in the context of Somalia.

The strategy integrates the Community-Driven Recovery and Development (CDRD) project, which focuses on service delivery enhancement and bottom-up governance, with DRC's livelihoods and protection activities, and DDG's Community Safety (CS) project, which aims at reducing threats to human security through comprehensive community-driven programming. Click on the image to the left to download the document. icon Download (1.44 MB)

What Is CDRD?

Community Driven & Recovery Development (CDRD) articulates the community's self-perception and future vision and offers a development plan to realize that vision. The plan generally comprises a series of prioritized actions beginning with specific tangible subprojects. Through the community-driven process, community members review and analyze their resources and needs, prioritize their requirements,

CDRD in the Somali Context

In postconflict transitions, CDRD may be used to support the evolution of war-torn areas from conflict to reconstruction and resumption of delivery of basic social services and then to long-term development using demand-led, participatory approaches that increase empowerment and accountability through community ownership over making decisions and allocating resources. CDRD, which is an efficient instrument for addressing

The Six Pillars of CDRD

Empowering Communities: Communities can be organized quickly and productively to diagnose local problems, come up with solutions, lay down priorities, elaborate action plans, and strengthen community organizations and accountability. However, participatory processes will be discredited and atrophy unless communities are empowered with resources and authority.

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Community Action Plans

Through the community-driven process, communities analyze their resources and needs, prioritize their requirements, develop a plan of action, receive and manage resources, carry out their projects, and ensure quality and accountability.

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