The ‘Demand-Creation Approach’ to Development

It rests on the sound assumption that members of the community are best able to identify the problems facing them and to make demands of those whose responsibility it is to deliver services to the community. This approach follows from a recognition that the era of the ‘supply approach’ has passed. Now is the time to empower community members to change their own behaviours and to demand and realise their rights to access the services to which they are entitled. 

UNICEF believes that some previous interventions have not had the desired impact principally because of a failure to achieve necessary levels of community ownership.


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