From June 16-18, a multisectoral team from the World Bank (Social Funds Team in Human Development, the Bank-wide Community Driven Development (CDD) Anchor in ESSD, Decentralization Group in PREM and WBI), together with the German Development Bank (KfW), the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), and the Inter-American Foundation, hosted the International Conference on Local Development at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC. 

Over 550 participants - representing social funds and other CDD programs, local, state, and national governments, civil society, donor agencies, scholars, and others - from 89 countries joined. The Conference offered an opportunity to network, and share knowledge, with a focus on development of a conceptual framework and shared vision for local development that integrates lessons from CDD and social fund approaches as well as from decentralization/public sector reform strategies.

Background and Conceptual Underpinnings

Conference Concept Note (12Kb PDF)

Also available in French (14Kb PDF)   Russian (125Kb PDF)   Spanish (13Kb PDF)

Local Development Discussion Paper Executive Summary (169Kb PDF)

Also available in French (165Kb PDF)  Russian (218Kb PDF)   Spanish (179Kb PDF)

Local Development Discussion Paper Full Text (520Kb PDF)