| dc.creator |
van den Boogaard, Vanessa |
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| dc.creator |
Santoro, Fabrizio |
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| dc.date |
2021-09-03T15:04:42Z |
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| dc.date |
2021-09-03T15:04:42Z |
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| dc.date |
2021-09 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2022-05-26T08:48:28Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2022-05-26T08:48:28Z |
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| dc.identifier |
Van den Boogaard, V. and Santoro, F. (2021) 'Co-Financing Community-Driven Development Through Informal Taxation: Experimental Evidence from South-Central Somalia,' ICTD Working Paper 126, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, DOI: 10.19088/ICTD.2021.016 |
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| dc.identifier |
https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/16824 |
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| dc.identifier |
10.19088/ICTD.2021.016 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/198630 |
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| dc.description |
Community contributions are often required as part of community-driven development (CDD)
programmes, with payment encouraged through matching grants. However, little remains
known about the impact of matching grants, or the implications of requiring community
contributions in order for communities to receive development funding.
This paper describes research where we partner with two non-governmental organisations
(NGOs) – one international and one Somali – and undertake a randomised control trial of a
CDD matching grant programme designed to incentivise informal contributions for local
public goods in Gedo region in south-central Somalia. We rely on household survey data
collected from 1,297 respondents in 31 treatment and 31 control communities, as well as
surveys of village leaders and data on informal contributions from the mobile money platform
used by community leaders to collect revenue.
Two key findings emerge. First, our research shows that working with communities and
incentivising informal revenue generation can be an effective way to deliver public goods and
to support citizens and communities. Second, building on research exploring the potential for
development interventions to spur virtuous or adverse cycles of governance, we show that
development partners may work directly with community leaders and informal taxing
institutions without necessarily undermining – and indeed perhaps strengthening – state
legitimacy and related ongoing processes of statebuilding in the country. Indeed, despite
playing no direct role in the matching grant programme, taxpayer perceptions of the
legitimacy of the local government improved as a result of the programme. These findings
deepen our understanding of how community contributions may be incentivised through
matching grant programmes, and how they may contribute to CDD and public goods
provision in a context of weak institutional capacity. |
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| dc.language |
en |
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| dc.publisher |
Institute of Development Studies |
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| dc.rights |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
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| dc.rights |
© Institute of Development Studies 2021 |
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| dc.subject |
Development Policy |
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| dc.subject |
Finance |
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| dc.title |
Co-Financing Community-Driven Development Through Informal Taxation: Experimental Evidence from South-Central Somalia |
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| dc.type |
Series paper (non-IDS) |
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| dc.coverage |
Somalia |
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