The effectiveness of an integrated, multi-sect oral and community–driven approach for the delivery of basic services in fragile states \

Abstract EN

This study examines the effectiveness of an integrated, multi-sect oral, and community–driven approach for the delivery of basic social services (education, primary health care and safety drinking water) to poor and vulnerable people in a conflict-affected area with particular emphasis on the UNICEF- sponsored Child-Friendly Community Initiative (CFCI) model in Southern Darfur State-western Sudan.

Two types of questioners were used to elicit data required: community development committee’s questionnaire and household questionnaire.

Systematic sampling technique was applied to select 13 communities out of 39 targeted communities and the random sampling technique to select 144 household out of 7275 of targeted households in the study area.

In view of the shortcomings in data collected a combinations of both qualitative and quantitative analysis were conducted to analyze and discuss the study results.

The results achieved revealed that the integrated, multi-sect oral, and community –driven approach is the most effective approach to deliver the basic social service delivery in difficult environments with a particular focus on those that affect children and women such as school rehabilitation or construction, classroom furniture, teaching and learning materials, construction of latrines and safe water facilities, immunizations and basic health care.

To grantee the sustainability of the program and the project, the community members’ capacity to plan, implement and monitor and evaluate development projects and create initiatives that will address social service delivery problems were built.

The CFCI experience revealed that building partnership between the international community, national governments and stakeholders is the right approach to improve poor people’s access to basic services and to strengthen the State’s capacity for pro-poor service delivery in difficult environments.