Khanya-African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd) is pioneering in the rethinking of governance and development systems to make a developmental state a reality, reconnecting citizens with the state, empowering communities, and promoting sustainable livelihoods.

Khanya would like to partner with 3-4 municipalities in South Africa to pioneer the integrated application of such approaches. This would involve establishing a process in a limited number of urban and rural wards based on:

1. Working with these wards, the municipalities and other stakeholders to analyse their situation and define what they would like to do about it using community-based planning (CBP).
2. Based on these plans, working with these wards to support the community to take forward their plans. This may need to be supported by more detailed information on the issues identified.
3. Working with the municipality to ensure that they and other stakeholders are able to incorporate the ward plans in their IDP,
4. Working with the municipality and other stakeholders to ensure that they support community-based organisations in the wards to take forward projects and activities of a wider nature

The process would ensure that there is significant impact on the livelihoods of the target wards, as well as empowering the community to plan and manage their own development. It would be a responsive community-driven process, working with appropriate partners to develop a wide range of technical interventions and innovations based on community priorities. These interventions could be upscaled in the municipality to cover the whole municipality and serve as an international pilot of approaches to CDD.