Within this domain, although there has been significant progress in developing
functional institutions, systems and procedures to implement project investments,
project's impact has been lower than desirable. On one hand, CDRDP has strongly
contributed to implement the Deconcentration and Decentralization process and to
broaden it. CBRDP also provided the necessary capacity within Excom and provincial
line departments to effectively support the local level actors and provide genuine
services to the poor. It has also contributed, mainly after the MTR, to put the commune
councils at the centre of the project, together with the commune planning process.
However, in doing so it has perhaps lost some of its focus on poverty reduction. In
addition, it seems that the role of the commune councils was not commonly accepted
and, as result, the reduced role for the village development committees