Can The Leaky Bucket Be Adapted To Non Economic Areas Of Analysis

Bucket Team:Sri MastutiTanya WasacaseMelanie McTurk

What is the fundamental ideology of ABCD ?

•ABCD is a methodology for the promotion of community driven development through the acknowledgement and utilization of the internal assets of a community:

•ABCD values the assets of the Human Sprit and fosters actions to nourish that spirit

Factors That Impact The Human Spirit

• Food, shelter, clothing, water, airAccess and Control of basic needs

• Education, traditional knowledge, learning opportunitiesLearning And Creativity

• Physical environment, health of ecological systemEcological And Environment

• Transparency, accountability, participation, equal opportunity, inclusion, responsivenessGood Governance

• Wages, livelihoods activities, donor fundsEconomic Activities

• Family structure, sports groups, clubs, societiesSocial Interactions And Relationships

• Job security, housing, safety from threatsSafety, Security And Peace

Applying leaky bucket to Good Governance•Inflows: actions/ circumstance that

enhance or support good governance

•Outflows: actions/circumstance that reduce or detract from good governance

•Within: skill/ modalities that exist in the community

Good Governance Bucket

Basic Requirements Bucket

Challenge

•It is challenging to quantify the inflow and outflow when bucket strategy is applied to a non empirical system.

Suggestion:Instead of attributing quantitative value we

could assign a qualitative value based on the level of significance to the community

Balancing Act•inflow= left end•outflow= right side•Size of blocks represents the level of

significance to the community

Conclusions:•Leaky Bucket can be applied to other none

economic analysis with varying success•The ‘Balancing Act’ can be used to further

support/ refine bucket dialogues where a qualitative rather than quantitative value may be more readily applied

•The Leaky Bucket should be used in collaboration with other ABCD tools

•Collectively the ABCD tools addressed the different factors that impacted the Human Spirit

Existing Issues:

• Is a pure asset based approach viable in the long term ?

•How do we directly address deficiencies in a community without the process becoming bogged down in negativity?