Community-driven development (CDD) has become an increasingly popular operational approach for economic reconstruction, sub-national service delivery, fostering social cohesion and bottom-up state building in post-conflict and fragile states. This research aimed to expose the lessons learnt through the case studies of CDD approach in 4 countries. The outcome of the research was expected to help in guiding the designing and implementation of user-friendly CDD-livelihood interventions in these post-conflict and fragile settings.