Local knowledge and local institutions in community-driven development: an analysis of baseline project preferences in the KALAHI-CIDSS program
| dc.contributor.advisor | Reside, Renato Jr. E. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Glova, Adrian Matthew G. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-10-02T06:25:48Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-10-02T06:25:48Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Community-Driven Development (CDD) is a development approach that decentralizes decision-making and resource management at the grassroots level. In theory, doing so will make projects more responsive to the needs of communities compared to top-down interventions as it utilizes local knowledge. Hence, this paper attempts to shed light on local knowledge by identifying individual-varying and community-varying factors that influence project preferences using a multinomial logistic regression. Next, the possibility of elite capture and the effectiveness of local institutions in articulating community preferences are also examined. These are important queries because elite capture and ineffective institutions make it difficult to achieve CDD objectives of community empowerment and inclusive participation. This is done by comparing preferences between and within the household and barangay level data, while accounting for differences in gender, education and wealth. A probit model is also employed to identify factors making the match of household and barangay captain (representing local political elites) preferences more or less likely. In sum, local knowledge was proven to be responsive to the demands of communities as project preferences move in accordance with the needs of respondents. The possibility of elite capture was also established given the wide divergence in project preferences between community members (households) and local political elites (barangay captains). The same can be said with project choices according to differences in gender, educational attainment and wealth. Finally, the probit model also suggests that male and more educated barangay captains are less likely to reflect the preferences of their constituents. This not only reinforces the possibility of elite capture in KALAHI-CIDSS but also stresses the need to implement mechanisms to improve the capacity of local leaders and local institutions in aggregating and articulating community preferences. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://selib.upd.edu.ph/etdir/handle/123456789/583 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.subject | KALAHI_CIDSS | |
| dc.title | Local knowledge and local institutions in community-driven development: an analysis of baseline project preferences in the KALAHI-CIDSS program | |
| dc.type | Thesis |