. This note aims to provide World Bank task teams, social development specialists and consultants, as well as Borrowers, with a simple principles-based guide that may be used as a reference basis in applying social safeguards to community driven development (CDD) projects. It aims to draw on lessons learned from previous generations of projects and to complement existing safeguards guidance materials available on the World Bank’s CDD Website and Safeguards Frameworks Website. It aims in particular to provide guidance on the application of certain social safeguards to practitioners involved in CDD operations