Project Information

The “Conduct of the ASEAN Regional Program for Capacity Development to Enhance Accountability of Local Governments in Delivering Social Protection Programs through Community-Driven Development (CDD)” is one of the five projects comprising the social protection and safety nets component of RFAP, and one of the two  assigned to the Philippines to spearhead implementation through the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC). Designed for a 12-month regional operation, with funding support from Japan-ASEAN Integration Fund, the project aims to achieve three objectives by the end of implementation period, namely:

• To create a platform for the promotion of CDD social protection programs In the ASEAN;

• To lay the basic requirements for the start of CDD social protection programs in participating ASEAN countries; and

• To train key trainers of the participating ASEAN countries.

These project objectives fully recognize the important role of CDD approaches to the progressive implementation, effective community control, and responsive and accountable governance of social protection programs in AMS. Over the past 20 years, AMS have initiated CDD to support social protection of the poor and vulnerable groups, particularly in rural areas. Since the early 2000s, CDD has been gradually mainstreamed and scaled up across a range of sectors (i.e., infrastructure such as roads and bridges, water and sanitation, irrigation, electricity, education and health, among others) and situations (i.e., poorest regions, provinces, townships and villages; and conflict and post-conflict environments) . The Project will therefore help distill the successful experiences and good practices gained by AMS for building supportive and enabling policy and institutional environments to pave the way for institutionalization of CDD as a key approach to social inclusion and protection of all the peoples in the ASEAN region. 

• Finalized capacity development framework, country assessment approach; training framework and approach, operational and logistics plan; and work plan ; plan for the conduct of study visits and ASEAN workshop; communication plan; procurement plan; and plan for organizing central office and coordination scheme.
• Firmed up logistics needed for the workshop, study visits and training and procure equipment.
• Collected, reviewed and assessed existing policy and institutional environment for CDD of the 10 ASEAN countries, among other available secondary data.
• Conducted ASEAN workshop on social protection programs to share country experiences and best practices; present and validate draft country assessment results.
• Conducted training needs analysis; and based on the country assessment results; develop a training plan on CDD for LGUs.
• Developed Training of Trainers (ToT) Manual.
• Conducted two batches of Training of Trainers on CDD.
• Conducted study visits in Indonesia and Philippines
• Presented of  progress and project results to ministerial dialogues (3)