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Community Driven Development in Bangladesh: Factors Behind the Reality
Abstract
Community driven development (CDD) is a widely used word in development discussions in the third world countries. Community participation in development planning, implementation and also in the befit sharing is like foundation stone for CDD. This paper is an attempt to address those factors in the context of Bangladesh. Here in this paper secondary source of information from recent publications, journals, books, research reports and articles of newspapers and internet have taken into consideration. There are also some case studies ( primary data) used to reflect on real life experiences at community level. Bangladesh with an ever increasing population has always depended on different actors like NGOs, Community Based Organization (CBOs) to work alongside with the government. It has been proved in many cases that community involved in planning and implementation process made significant changes in community development. There are also several factors both at the demand and supply side that contributes to CDD.
Key words: Community driven development; Contextual factors; Demand side factors; Supply side factors; NGOs; Community based organization
Résumé: La Communauté dirigeant le Développement (CDD) est un mot largement utilisé dans les discussions sur le développement dans les pays du tiers monde. La participation communautaire à la planification du développement, la mise en œuvre et aussi dans le partage conviennent à la première pierre pour la CDD. Ce 1 document est une tentative pour répondre à ces facteurs dans le contexte du Bangladesh. Ici, dans cette source d'alimentation papier secondaire des informations tirées de publications récentes, revues, livres, rapports de recherche et d'articles de journaux et d'Internet ont pris en considération. Il ya aussi quelques études de cas (données primaires) utilisé pour réfléchir sur des expériences réelles au niveau communautaire. Bangladesh avec une population sans cesse croissante a toujours dépendu des différents acteurs comme les ONG, l'Organisation communautaire (CBO), de travailler aux côtés du gouvernement. Il a été prouvé dans de nombreux cas que la communauté impliqués dans la planification et le processus de mise en œuvre apporté des changements importants dans le développement communautaire. Il ya également plusieurs facteurs à la fois au côté de la demande et l'offre qui contribue au CDD.
Mots clés: La Communauté menant le développement; Les facteurs contextuels; Les facteurs de la demande; Les facteurs d'offre; Les ONG; L'organisation à base communautaire
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/j.css.1923669720110704.046
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