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This paper is part of a larger effort to
document, assess, and promote scalable models and approaches
to empower poor communities to manage a climate and disaster
risk agenda in support of their development goals and to
identify practical ways of getting climate and disaster risk
financing directly to the ground level where impacts are
felt. Social funds, social protection systems and safety
nets, community-driven development (CDD) projects,
livelihoods-support and related operational platforms can
serve as useful vehicles for promoting community-level
resilience to disaster and climate risk. This paper examines
the World Bank's Community-Driven Development (CDD)
portfolio to assess experience to date and to explore the
potential for building the resilience of vulnerable
communities to climate and disaster risk through CDD
programs. It aims to be useful to both the Climate Change
Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management practitioner as well
as the CDD practitioner. The paper assesses the scale of
climate and disaster resilience support provided through CDD
projects from 2001-11 and characterizes the forms of support
provided. For the climate change adaption and disaster risk
management (DRM) practitioner, it discusses the
characteristics of a CDD approach and how they lend
themselves to building local-level climate resilience. For
the CDD practitioner, the paper describes the types of
activities that support resilience building and explores
future directions for CDD to become a more effective vehicle
for reducing climate and disaster risk.
