Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgment -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Synthesizing Case Study Findings -- Chapter Summaries -- Defining Key Terms -- Analyzing Initial Conditions -- Ensuring Flexibility and Incorporating Feedback -- Ensuring Community-Driven Development -- Starting Small Scale or Large Scale -- Fostering Constructive Potential at the Local Level -- Linking Constructive Potential to Democratic Decentralization -- Enhancing Government Capacity at Higher Levels -- Encouraging a Sense of Ownership -- Engendering Spillovers -- Scaling Up -- Parallel Agencies and Bodies -- Determining the Psychological Effect of Improvements in Fragile States -- Using Donor-Funded Institutions for Partisan Political Purposes -- Addressing Needs during or after Armed Conflicts -- Considering Implications of Case Studies for Donors -- Coordinating and Integrating Aid Interventions -- Findings of the Main Study -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 A Framework for Assessing Program and Project Aid in Low-Income Countries under Stress -- Overarching Issues Affecting Aid Modalities -- Reviewing LICUS Contexts and the Aid Effectiveness Literature -- Reviewing Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers and the New Aid Architecture -- Framework for Program and Project Assessment in LICUS -- Assessing Development Results -- Assessing Design Considerations' Contribution to Development Results -- Assessing Implementation Management's Contribution to Development Results -- Summarizing Case Study Contents -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 The Transition Support Program in Timor-Leste -- Development in Timor-Leste before the Transition Support Program -- Overview of the Transition Support Program -- Development Results -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 The Seila Program in Cambodia.

The Seila Program's Evolving Goals and Objectives -- Development Results -- Implications for Design and Implementation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 The First and Second Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Projects in Timor-Leste -- The Health Sector in East Timor before 2000 -- Overview of the Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project -- Development Results -- Explaining the Projects' Contribution to Development -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 The Direct Support to Schools Program in Mozambique -- Program Description -- Field Work Methods and Sources -- Development Results -- Scaling Up the Program -- Long-term Sustained Impacts -- Summary of Program Achievements and Challenges -- Lessons for Aid Provision in LICUS -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7 Decentralized District Planning and Finance in One Mozambican Province -- Design of This Study -- Project Description -- Methods and Sources -- Project Design -- Project Implementation Processes -- Development Results -- Lessons for Development Interventions in LICUS -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8 The Community Fora Process in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan -- Background and Context -- Development of the Community Fora -- Development Results -- Design Considerations ' Contribution to Development Results -- Implementation Processes -- Conclusions -- Annex -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9 Aid Effectiveness and Microfinance: Lessons from Afghanistan -- Context -- Development Results -- Design Considerations -- Implementation Arrangements -- Lessons for LICUS -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10 Community-Driven Development in Conflict and Postconflict Conditions: The Northern Uganda Social Action Fund Proje -- Project Antecedents -- The Northern Uganda Social Action Fund Project -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Boxes -- 8.1 Lack of Aid Coordination -- 8.2 Girls' Right to Education -- 8.3 Partnership with Municipal Government: Linking Citywide and Community Solutions for Solid Waste Removal -- 8.4 Principles of Community Fora -- 8.5 Promoting Cross-Ethnic Collaboration and Understanding -- Figures -- 4.1 Institutional Structure of the Seila Program -- 5.1 Basic Health Indicators, 1999 and 2001 in Timor-Leste -- 5.2 Annual per Capita Donor Assistance in Selected Low-Income Countries Under Stress, 1999-2002 -- 8.1 Community Fora Established in Six Provinces of Afghanistan -- Tables -- 2.1 Framework for Assessing Program and Project Aid in LICUS -- 2.2 Framework for Evidence on Development Results of Aid Interventions in LICUS -- 3.1 Development Indicators in Timor-Leste before and after 1999 -- 3.2 Consolidated Fund Expenditure in Timor-Leste, Fiscal Year (FY) 2003-05 -- 3.3 Consolidated Fund Expenditure in Timor-Leste, by function, FY 2003-05 -- 3.4 Consolidation Fund Financing, FY 2003-05 -- 3.5 Status of Actions under TSP I and TSP II -- 4.1 Financial Support to CARERE and Seila, 1992-2001 -- 4.2 Financial Support to Seila, 2001-05 -- 5.1 Key Minimum Performance Indicators in the Health Sector -- 5.2 Key Health Indicators, July 1, 2003-June 30, 2004 -- 6.1 Coverage and Costs of Direct Support to Schools Program -- 6.2 Education Sector Strategic Plan Cost, by Component and Subcomponent -- 7.1 Project Budget and Funding Sources -- 7.2 Achievements and Constraints in Expanding the Project in Nampula Province -- 9.1 Afghanistan: Social Indicators -- 9.2 Growth of MISFA, 2003-08 -- 9.3 MISFA Client Activity: October 2004 -- 9.4 Overview of BRAC Afghanistan Microfinance Program, 2002-04 -- 9.5 One MFI's Financial Planning and Growth Projections.