Capacity builders for governance: community-driven reconstruction in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Patrick Milabyo Kyamusugulwa, Dorothea Hilhorst and Gemma Van Der Haar

Development in Practice, 2014, vol. 24, issue 7, 812-826

Abstract: Community-driven reconstruction (CDR) has become a new paradigm in post-conflict development. It combines infrastructure restoration with introducing good governance at the local level. Recent evaluations show that governance objectives are not easily met and significant change cannot be demonstrated. This paper adds to this argument on the basis of ethnographic research on a CDR programme in eastern DRC. It seeks to find explanations for the lack of demonstrable governance impact in the content and implementation of training. It identifies room for improvement by better adjusting capacity building to locally prevailing accountability mechanisms and by coordinating capacity building with other development programmes.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2014.944484

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