Welcome to World Community Development Programme

World Community Development Programme is a grassroots driven organization that provides loans (and some grants) to communities in Africa.  We work exclusively with local Community Based Organizations, helping them to achieve their own community development goals.

Perhaps the most distinctive feature of WCDP is the strong emphasis given to the grassroots element. Everything we do originates from the grassroots. The microfinance programs, for example, are local community initiatives that we support and help to grow. The communities determine the terms of the loans, the interest rate and they also administer every aspect of the loan process. They distribute loans, deciding who will receive loans in any loan cycle, and they collect the weekly or monthly payments. In this way the local communities have complete control over how their local development progresses and which projects or programs are funded and when.

Furthermore, once a community fund is set-up and its loan paid off, it is completely self-sustaining. If WCDP were to disappear tomorrow, these micro-loan programs would continue to provide loans for years and years to come.

WCDP recognizes that the local communities know best what their communities need and how to achieve their collective goals. We merely provide support and oversight… because sometimes it takes more than a village.