Community Participation: Lessons from Experiences in Five Water and Sanitation Projects in India

Manikutty, S.

doi:10.1111/1467-7679.00070

Cited by 17 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 5 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Creating sustainable community association represents a great challenge for CBD/CDD projects. Oftentimes, once project implementation is over, these organizations cease to function and in time disappear altogether (Manikutty, 1998). Some authors argue that community associations will only be sustainable if the benefits the members derive from them exceed the costs that participation entails (Subramanian et al, 1997;Banarjee et al, 1997).…”

Section: 9mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effectiveness of World Bank Support for Community-Based and -Driven Development

Kumar¹,

Vajja²,

Pozzoni³

et al. 2005

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

is the only country where the Bank lends directly to states. In fiscal year 1999, the 35 state loans represented 51 percent of the total portfolio or 41 percent in terms of value. 9 Up to 1999 there were 5,507 municipalities. Box 2 : Division of responsibility by level of government Level of government Federal, State, Municipal (shared) Health and social welfare Services for disabled persons Historic, artistic and cultural preservation Protection of the environment and natural resources Culture, education and science Forests, fauna and flora protection Agriculture and food distribution Housing and sanitation Combating poverty and social marginalization Exploitation of minerals and hydroelectricity Traffic safety Small business improvement policies Tourism and leisure Mainly Municipal Preschool and primary education Preventive health care Historical and cultural preservation Only Municipal Public transport (inner-city) Land use Source: Souza, 2002b: 9.

show abstract

Section: 9mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effectiveness of World Bank Support for Community-Based and -Driven Development

Kumar¹,

Vajja²,

Pozzoni³

et al. 2005

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Additionally, the nature and extent of participation envisioned by different stakeholders might alter as the project unfolds based on contextual determinants. Therefore, drawing from Manikutty (1998), we intend to accommodate for flexibility in the scope and the type of participation planned. Further, this participation must be authentic, with real representation (particularly of the marginalized populations) in the decision-making processes, where multidirectional knowledge transfer between those involved is continuous, to initiate a narrative change.…”

Section: Potential Challenges and Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

(Re)envisioning inclusive futures: Applying narrative foresight to deconstruct the problem of urban flooding in the slums of Bengaluru, India

Nadimpalli,

Mathew,

Cheranda

2024

Development Policy Review

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

MotivationRecurring urban flooding in Bengaluru, India, has brought multiple intersecting development challenges to the forefront. While climate change is a catalyst for flooding, rapid urbanisation has aggravated the problem by neglecting its ecological history. Repeated floods have particularly affected migrants living in the slums, further worsening their already vulnerable conditions. Currently, only about 40% of slums are formally recognized by city authorities, leaving most slum dwellers with limited access to public benefits and basic infrastructure. Although the city offers piecemeal solutions, it currently lacks foresight for long‐term planning that includes marginalized voices.PurposeWe explore the multiple and intertwined development challenges faced by Bengaluru city, attempting to frame them from the perspective of migrant slum dwellers experiencing flooding. We try to bring to the forefront the everyday risks and vulnerabilities of the marginalized populations in Indian cities, which have received limited attention both in research and policy.The results of this exercise are intended to create sustainable collaborative processes to inform future decisions, particularly addressing the problem of urban flooding.Methods and approachOur proposed methodology integrates climate risk assessment—urban flood modelling and exposure mapping of slums across the city—with vulnerability assessments at the household level including analysis of life histories to capture the relative vulnerabilities of slum dwellers and the slums in which they live.FindingsWe deconstruct urban flooding, particularly from the perspective of migrant slum dwellers to identify some critical challenges, especially that of recognition, to foresight thinking. By incorporating marginalized voices, our methods aim to be inclusive and contextually relevant, while considering intersectional variations among those marginalized.A mixed‐methods approach allows climate risk assessment to be augmented by life histories of vulnerable slum populations to collaboratively reimagine a more inclusive future.Policy implicationsTo make policy more inclusive, more participatory processes are needed. The proposed methods will contextualize everyday vulnerabilities and risks of migrant slum dwellers to bring these perspectives into conventional climate risk assessment. Thus, a more inclusive future with lower impacts from urban floods can be envisaged.

show abstract

“…Over the course of the post-World War 11 development epoch, as donor agencies and developing countries in many parts of the world launched many programs and projects embracing a participatory component of one sort or another (e.g., in India, South Africa, Brazl, Senegal, etc. ), studies following Almond and Verba (1963), to probe the future of democracy, have reported the positive relationship between participatory governance (direct community participation) and efficiency in agricultural/irrigation systems of production, water, sanitation and public work projects (e.g., Chambers, 1988;Ascher and Healy, 1990;Ostrom et al, 1994;Manikutty, 1997Manikutty, , 1998Adato et al, 1999;UN, 2008;Blair, 2008;. Probing further on the future/prospects of democracy, it is imperative that we chart the empirical path of this study, first by explicating the conceptual links between governance, its democratic/participatory and good variants, and sustainable development.…”

Section: Partcipatory Governance/democracy Good Governance and Sustamentioning

confidence: 99%

Bottom-Up Participatory Governance and Sustainable Development: Perceptions in Nigerias Cross-Ethnic States of Imo and Akwa-Ibom

Unanka¹,

Igboeche-Onyenweigwe²,

Ndoh³

2020

IJAR

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

All through the beginning of the twenty first century, a paradigm shift is occurring in the way in which government, business and community sectors relate to each other, suggesting a possible participatory framework for progressive collaborative arrangements (Edwards, 2001). When Almond and Verba (1963) probed the future of democracy and asserted that the New World political culture must be a political culture of participation, they had set the pace earlier by presenting emerging nations with two different but equally appealing models of the modern participatory state: the totalitarian and democratic. But realizing that the totalitarian state offers the ordinary man the role of the "participant-subject"while the democratic state offers him the opportunity to take part in the political decision process as an influential "participant-citizen" (Almond and Verba, 1963; Unanka, 2001), scholarly interests are stimulated by the paradigm shift to probe the nature and direction of the modern participatory democracies in developing countries, amidst increasing claims of good and participatory governance at national and state levels. Claims of participatory governance are prompted because the right of citizens to participate in governance as evidenced in Article 25 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights asserts that "Every citizen shall have the right and the opportunity … to take part in the conduct of public affairs" (UN, 2008). Very importantly, since democracy and good governance are believed to be the foundation for the achievement of sustainable development, scholarly interests are increasingly generated on how to truly democratize governance for effective and sustainable development (Osmani, 2008), and specifically for the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in developing countries by 2030.

show abstract

Community Participation: Lessons from Experiences in Five Water and Sanitation Projects in India

Cited by 17 publications

References 5 publications

The Effectiveness of World Bank Support for Community-Based and -Driven Development

The Effectiveness of World Bank Support for Community-Based and -Driven Development

(Re)envisioning inclusive futures: Applying narrative foresight to deconstruct the problem of urban flooding in the slums of Bengaluru, India

Bottom-Up Participatory Governance and Sustainable Development: Perceptions in Nigerias Cross-Ethnic States of Imo and Akwa-Ibom

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About