A path shared for 27 years - IFAD

“During the 1990s community development projects
funded by the Joint Programme in Hoima, Kibaale and
Masindi districts [in Uganda] marked the start of IFAD’s
involvement in multi-component rural development
projects in the western region, to which the District
Development Support Project was conceived as a
follow-up programme.”
Completion Evaluation, District Development Support Project, Uganda
“The Hoima District Integrated Community Development Project was
designed in 1989, scarcely three years after the end of the civil war.
It was [financed] by a grant from the Joint Programme (90 per cent),
with contributions from Government (4 per cent) and beneficiaries
(6 per cent, mostly in the form of labour and local building materials).
Its primary objective was to reduce the rates of morbidity and mortality
amongst the most disadvantaged sections of the community, namely
rural women and children, by improving their nutritional and health
status and by helping them increase their incomes from on and offfarm
sources. Participatory development was perceived as fundamental
to the achievement of these goals.”
Appraisal report, District Development Support Project, 1990, Uganda
“The basic goals of the District Development Support Project were
inherited from the integrated community development projects of
Hoima and Masindi: the raising of incomes and the improvement
of health in districts with large numbers of chronically poor, very
few income-earning opportunities and infrastructure and services
destroyed by long periods of mis-government and civil disorder in the
1970s and 1980s.”
Completion Report, District Development Support Project,
Hoima/Kibaale, Uganda
“The Joint Programme grant introduced a more multi-sectoral approach, in
which greater prominence was given, firstly to primary health care, water
and sanitation and, secondly, to labour and time-saving technologies,
all of which are very significant for women. These interventions were not
intended to distract from the agricultural developments, but rather to
reinforce a more holistic approach which was particularly suited to the
combination of grant and loan funding available.”
Completion evaluation, Phase 2, Farmers Group and Community
Support Project, Kenya
“Although the design calls for full beneficiary participation which is
to be realized by use of the national strategy for the decentralization
of implementation, the channeling of funds does not allow for
participation in the identification or prioritization of development
activities. Instead the beneficiaries are being provided with a predetermined
package of support, and [their] participation is defined
as contributions of labour or cash only. In addition, the staff of the
implementing agencies are not being provided with the sort of training
which would allow them to undertake participatory planning.”
Completion evaluation, Dry Area Smallholder and Community Services
Development Project, Nyeri, Kenya
“The [Southern Nyanza Community Development] Project benefits
from valuable experience gained from the projects funded by IFAD and
the Joint Programme in the region. In Kenya, the projects include the
Farmers’ Groups and Community Support Project (1991-99), Nyeri
Dry Area Smallholders and Community Services Development Project
(1991-99) and the ongoing Central Kenya Area Smallholder and
Community Services Development Project (2000-2011).”
Formulation report, Southern Nyanza Community Development Project, Kenya
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Two women, Ethiopia.
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