The objective of CMP is that “Community Management enables communities to organise their own development, strengthens their policy dialogue with the local government for improved living conditions, especially for the poor, disseminates and capitalizes experiences to other stakeholders”.
The project was implemented by “The Centre for Development of Women and Children – DWC” a Vietnamese NGO in 10 districts of four provinces in Vietnam: Quang Binh, Nam Dinh, Thai Nguyen and Hoa Binh in the period 2008 – 2016 with a total budget of CHF 7.8 million, including SDC contribution of CHF 6.9 million.
In the Vietnamese political context where the government makes top-down decisions then mobilises people to implement those decision, community management aiming at community self-management and community voices heard is truly an innovation. This empowers communities to identify their development problems, to develop their solutions and to implement those solutions as well as to influence decisions initiated by other actors (government, private sector) which affect their life.
Thanks to CMP, community management was applied in more than 600 villages. More than 2’500 community projects, mostly small scale infrastructure such as village roads, irrigation canals, schools, improved living conditions of more than 400’000 people. 580 dialogues between communities and local governments were hold to allow people to influence decisions/plans of local governments. A network of community management consisting of 43 members is operating. The national targeted program for New Rural Development (NRD) has agreed to apply community management in its implementation.
