Finance as the key to unlocking community potential: savings, funds and the ACCA programme

• Published in: Environment and urbanization Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 423 - 440
• Main Author: Archer, Diane
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.10.2012
• Subjects: Asia; Cambodia; Central Government; Coalitions; Common fund; Community Development; Cooperation; Finance; Government; Housing finance; Intervention; Philippines; Savings; Sri Lanka; Cambodia; Asia; Sri Lanka; Philippines; slum upgrading; housing finance; Asia; community savings; community development funds

This paper describes how the Asian Coalition for Community Action (ACCA) programme seeks to use finance to augment community-driven development processes in 19 nations and enable their scaling up to the city and national levels. The lack of accessible and flexible finance is a key stumbling block fo...