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Date: 2024-07-17 Page is: DBtxt001.php L0700-TPB-c2000-Multi-Sector-Community-Development

TPB thinking circa 2000
MULTI-SECTOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT


This diagram was prepared in the 1990s in response to some of the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) work that I had been doing for the United Nations and the World Bank. These organizations focus on development assistance using the 'project' form of organization which works very well for discreet engineering projects such as bridges, water supply systems, and similar, but not so well for development assistance generally, especially projects that aim to improve quality of life in a community setting. Once in a while these organizations would embrace a multi-sector project design and some of these worked very well. The graphic above aims to show how many different things go into making a community function successfully. Another issue that emerged as a result of my M&E work was that most development projects did not have the flexibility to address issues that were constraining the project unless this was specifically incorporated into the project design. What this meant is that projects were often completed simply by going through the defined activities, while completely failing to accomplish any development progress. My approach to M&E was different than most of my peers in large part because I had more of a background in management accountancy than most, and appreciated the relationship between the activities of an entity and the impact of the activities on the entity and its surroundings. This is the core strength of conventional financial accountancy which differentiates between profit and loss accounts and balance sheet accounts. Progress is when the balance sheet accounts show that the 'state' has improved. The following shows (1) steady state, (2) progress or value add and (3) degradation or value destruction

Steady State	Value Add	Value Destruction

Doing the activities without getting the positive change in state is a waste of effort and resources. Far too much of the development track record has been about activities that did not deliver much of positive change in state.

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