Resilience Learning Project, East Africa
JOINT PLANNING CELL
LEARNING EVENT
Lessons from PLPA Review
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COMMUNITY PLANNING IN ASALS
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PEP by Worldvision in Kajiado/Narok
ALRMP – Resulting in CDC;
ICAF- Resulting in CAPC &WAPC;
NRT landscape level planning
PLPA – Resulting in CDCs
• Where does PLPA fit alongside these other
approaches? All have certain strengths and
challenges
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STRENGTHS OF COMMUNITY PLANNING
1. Resulting outcomes – CDC and CDAP
2. Willingness to voluntarily participate in
planning at great cost to themselves;
3. Emergence of community Voice amidst
challenges [Turkwell and Kakuma cases]
4. Innovations [Korr Ward CDC model]
5. Emergence of CDAPs as DEVELOPMENT plans
drawn from communities [27% of plans had been fully
implemented and 42% partially implemented]
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NUMBER OF PROJECTS PLANNED AND IMPLEMENTED
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18
18
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14
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10
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5
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1
1
ACCESS TO
BETTER
IRRIGATION
FACILITIES
IMPROVED
ROADS AND
BRIDGES
0
IMPROVED
EDUCATION
IMPROVED
GROUP
MANAGEMENT
& ACCESS TO
CREDIT
IMPROVED
HEALTH
SERVICES
IMPROVED
MARKET
FACILITIES FOR
PRODUCE
NO. PLANNED
IMPROVED
PEACE AND
SECURITY
ACCESS TO
CLEAN SAFE
DRINKING
WATER
NO. IMPLEMENTED
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CHALLENGES/LIMITATIONS
1. Capacity challenge that affects quality of process and
products [Human and financial]
2. Documentation of the “proper” PLPA process not yet
done,
3. Possible elite capture of process esp. by politicians but yet
both the process (PLPA) & products (CDAP/CDC) need
political goodwill to gain a footing in the county planning
4. Sustainability [funding of CDCs and CDAPs]
5. Institutionalization of both process and products
6. Geographical Coverage – how big/small an area?
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OPPORTUNITIES
1. Institutionalization of a credible COMMUNITY process
[documentation of PLPA process, capacity building of organizational teams to undertake
the process]
2. Anchor community participation in the legal
framework [Citizen Participation Bills, Marsabit and Isiolo]
3. Build capacities of emerging community leadership
structures (CDCs, WAPC, etc) while watching out for
possible elite capture [complexities of development; volunteerism; lobbying
and advocacy for inclusion]
4. Positioning of community participation processes
(and products) as community voice on governance, or
as official planning tools
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CONCLUSION
So, what is the contribution of community planning to resilience
programming?
1. How do the process or the plans add to the programme for
resilience?
• Voice [Turkwell, Korr, Kakuma]
• Spirit of volunteerism
• Introduction of business models such as PPP [Sidai, Eliye Springs]
2.
Could partners assist in strengthening adaptation, transformation
and absorption within these communities without this type of
planning?
• NO, because that would perpetuate dependency which doesn’t serve
resilience
• We must TRUST the communities’ sensibilities and continue to engage them
for their own development
• Partners could help with areas of obvious need such as infrastructure [roads,
bridges, irrigation facilities] that are capital intensive where they have
comparative advantage to help communities make the leaps to transformation
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DISCUSION QUESTIONS FOR GROUPS
1. Can participatory community development approaches
(CDP) effectively be used to plan at county level?
2. Given the long history of CDP approaches in the ASALS,
why have these not already been institutionalized?
3. Given the time and resources involved in participatory
CDP approaches, are they cost effective and can they
realistically be scaled up to county level planning?
4. How do you maintain the quality in participatory planning
processes if you scale them up to county level?
5. What value are CDP processes, given that sector specific
interventions are ultimately going to be designed and
implemented by the relevant line ministries?
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Resilience Learning Project, East Africa
Disclaimer
The views expressed in this presentation do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or
the United States Government.
The Resilience Learning Project is implemented by Tufts University.
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