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CBARDP - Component 1 -Awareness and capacity building
The awareness and capacity-building process is undertaken in three main phases implemented over a period of 18-24 months. It supports two main groups of activities: making service providers more relevant and responsive; and empowering poor rural communities. Well-defined and monitorable indicators will trigger movements from one phase to another, as follows:
- During the pre-implementation phase (three months), federal, state and local government institutions and target communities is sensitized and trained in new approaches to planning and implementing community-level rural development activities, and states present proposals for the inclusion participatory community development in their operations.
- The second phase - making service providers more relevant and responsive - is to facilitate policy development to rationalize and decentralize public rural development institutions, create awareness of community-based participatory approaches to rural development, and strengthen institutional capacity through training to identify and respond to demand for services from rural communities on a sustainable basis. Support is provided at the federal/inter-state, state and local levels.
- The third phase - empowering poor rural communities - is to commence once the first community-driven development teams (CDDTs) are trained. Activities at the village level is aimed at empowering communities to review their current situation, assess and prioritize community needs for all community members including vulnerable groups, develop initial annual work plans, and develop skills to monitor and evaluate implementation and implement planned activities