Power to the people? Taking a look at community driven reconstruction in the DRC

Given the Bank's recent release of a report on community driven development and a recent
New York Times article about the intractability of peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, I thought it would be worth looking at a recent paper by Macarten Humphreys, Raul Sanchez de la Sierra, and Peter van der Windt on a community driven reconstruction program in the DRC.

This paper is interesting not only in results, but also for the measurement tools it uses (it clocks in at a hefty 78 pages, but they use this space well to discuss a lot of measurement and methodological issues). I'll turn to those more in a minute, but first let's take a look at the intervention.