Me too. The IEP must scale beyond and interact at levels beyond the
reach of the community. Just a few success stories at that level,
where the community cannot reach, are more than enough to justify IEP
and its large budget but a lot of success in things that the community
should/can/could do is a serious waste of money and reduces community
space for involvement.

I echo in what Ashwin said above. These things are managed by communities anyways, what's the special need of making individual communities handicapped by unnecessary involvement of IP, and on the same hand its waste of budget and expertise (if any) of India programme professionals.