The Community Development Fund: A case-study of donor engagement in post-war reconstruction.
This paper is a positive case study of donor engagement in post-war reconstruction, which had a deep impact on the well-being and livelihood of local communities in Kosovo. The key player of this story is the Community Development Fund (CDF), a local NGO founded by the World Bank immediately after the war in 1999. The task of the CDF was to channel the World Bank’s funds to local communities by investing in priority projects as identified by the communities themselves.
The objectives of the CDF are: (a) to improve the quality, access, and availability of community infrastructure and services in poor and conflict-affected communities, especially for the most vulnerable groups, including returnees; and (b) to promote institutional capacity building at the community and municipal levels so as to improve the quality and sustainability of service delivery, and enhance stakeholder participation and empowerment in local development.
To date, the CDF has managed over Euro 18.5 million of donor funds (not including community participation). Its work has been divided into two program cycles: CDF I, covering the period from 1999-2003, during which period a total of USD 13.6 million (donor funds including community participation) were translated into 276 projects across Kosovo; and CDF II, ongoing since 2004, with Euro 7.3 million allocated so far. Sixty-seven projects were completed in the period 2004-2006, and 36 other projects are currently ongoing. The funds came from a number of donors, including the World Bank, the Swiss, the Dutch, the Austrian, the Canadian, and Kosovo governments, the UNDP and Oxfam.
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