Community-driven development institutions do not spill over into everyday community governance

Evidence

CDD requirements became procedural formalities serving external audiences rather than supporting community project management. This reflects broader findings from CDD evaluations (Casey, 2018; Voss, 2012; Wong, 2012), as Casey notes in a synthesis of randomized control trials: “The crux of the matter is that the institutional arrangements introduced by CDD are not adopted by communities for other types of decisions, and they further do not exert procedural spillover effects on traditional institutions” (2018, p. 155). — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 145

Categorization

• QUESTION: Casey’s synthesis claims no procedural spillover effects from CDD institutions — worth chasing whether any CDD design has produced spillover.
• CANDY: A crisp, counterintuitive one-liner: development projects set up parallel institutions communities never adopt for anything else.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 145
• XREF: connects to: Communities comply minimally with donor rules while keeping their own governance practices operative — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 113; External development requirements parallel and are met by preexisting local governance institutions — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 114; Settlements grafted project management onto existing governance rather than forming new systems — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 115 (+5 more)

Related

• CDD projects fail even under ideal social-capital conditions, exposing model flaws. (similarity 0.79)
• External development requirements parallel and are met by preexisting local governance institutions (similarity 0.78)
• Communities comply minimally with donor rules while keeping their own governance practices operative (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Commons function as social resources binding communities together, not just property rights. #contradicts (0.75) — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 10
• Fragmented community development framing deepens alienation and enable divisive control #expands (0.72) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 457