Cultural Crossroads of Community Participation in Development: A Case from Nepal

Stone, Linda

doi:10.17730/humo.48.3.d436524749371702

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“…Scholarly thought (e.g. Stone 1989) and the work of practitioners was reflected in 'Agenda 21', the outcome document of the 1992 United Nations 'Earth Summit' in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which highlighted stakeholder participation as a major factor in promoting sustainable development. Since then, Agenda 21 has been given political, legal and regulatory force by national governments and by United Nations organisations in every area of human endeavour.…”

Section: Theorising and Justifying Local Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public participation in services delivery projects in Buikwe District Local Government Uganda

Kugonza

Mukobi²

2016

CJLG

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Public participation as a democratic right has gained wide acceptance in local governance, both to improve accountability in service delivery and to enhance civic consciousness. Uganda now has two decades’ experience of various forms of decentralisation. However, the extent of public participation both in local planning and in holding local politicians to account has been inconsistent. Taking Buikwe District local government as a case study, the authors argued that three key factors influence public participation in local governance – access to information, ability to use information effectively, and awareness of citizens’ rights, roles and responsibilities. They found that these factors positively influenced overall respondents’ participation in local government projects by 10.2%, 19% and 22% respectively based on Pearson Correlation Coefficient. The study further found that information is not readily accessible or effectively disseminated to the majority of citizens and therefore is not fully harnessed for planning, monitoring and evaluating government projects. Reasons for this inadequate access included: limited and costly infrastructure for handling information: lack of skills in relation to how and when to use information; and lack of analytical and simplification skills among those disseminating information. In light of these findings, the paper recommends that information dissemination must be planned and carried out in a targeted and systematic way, if citizens’ awareness of their rights, roles and responsibilities in service delivery is to be achieved.

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Section: Theorising and Justifying Local Participationmentioning

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Public participation in services delivery projects in Buikwe District Local Government Uganda

Kugonza

Mukobi²

2016

CJLG

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“…The participatory development approach has appeared in international development repeatedly though it has been called by different terms and woven into the development process in different ways (Stone 1989). More explicitly, there are divergent ideas on types of community participation and different experts have classified the same concept under the same scope but with different names.…”

Section: Typology Of Community Participationmentioning

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Towards a Typology of Community Participation in the Tourism Development Process

Tosun¹

1999

Anatolia

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Although the notion of community participation in tourism originates from the general concept of community participation in development studies, the subject of the former seems to have evolved and popularized in isolation from the meaning and scope of its origin. This article reveals that such isolation has ushered in a rigid and simple paradigm of community participation in tourism. This is assumed to be of one form and has universal validity without considering the existence of the different circumstances at various tourist destinations. It is suggested that the concept of community participation should be re-considered in terms of an adaptive categorical paradigm, which incorporates a range of various forms of community participation. These forms of participation are outlined for a variety of abstract situations with the aim of illustrating the legitimacy of different forms of community participation in tourism.

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“…It is not. Projects have been introduced from 'outside' agencies that have failed, for one reason or another, on a continual basis; [60] not an uncommon occurrence in Honduras' protected areas, [3,27,61] or in inhabited protected areas in other developing countries as well [8,62]. The negative response to such repeated failure is a resilient coping strategy that permits actors to survive at a level of subsistence without breaking below the survivorship echelon.…”

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“…Consequently, many development practitioners and academics argue over the causes and the ramifications of failure of rural development using several (overly general) axioms: The proper level of participation by the local community members, the depth and detail of the participatory appraisal (rapid or otherwise), the ability that 'the locals' to influence policy (or lack thereof), and the harm that the imposition of 'Western ways' can inflict upon 'the local' community are only a few of the heated topics [8][9][10][11][12][13]. Alternative development scholars are interested in eliminating the Western bias that oftentimes accompanies development by asking these and similar questions: Is rural development attempted with an understanding of how local communities (the object of the development gaze) frame meaning, how they approach things?…”

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Worlds Apart: A Social Theoretical Exploration of Local Networks, Natural Actors, and Practitioners of Rural Development in Southern Honduras

Gareau

2012

Sustainability

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This paper explores the importance of incorporating the socioecological realities of alternative networks into analyses of rural development. Cultural theory is examined, which provides a base upon which rural development can identify difference in worldviews based on difference in sociological conditions and environmental phenomena. Actor-oriented theory problematizes the ideal types of cultural theory, providing a means of give-and-take between actors' worldviews of different networks. Actor-network theory breaks down the nature-culture dichotomy of actor-oriented theory, so that nature becomes as 'active' an actor as people and community. Actor-network theory brings nature and society together, perceiving the two as mutually inclusive and constitutive. Coupled with recognition of power associated with political economic/ecological forces, actor-network theory can encourage us to see the frequency of tropical storms in Honduras as being among the powerful actors that have played a significant, consistent role in shaping the mode of ordering of impoverished Honduran peoples. This paper concludes by exploring how alternative, agroecological networks established in a protected area in southern Honduras with 'strong' natural actors can be re-ordered by incorporating autonomy and resiliency into the network.

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Cultural Crossroads of Community Participation in Development: A Case from Nepal

Cited by 63 publications

References 5 publications

Public participation in services delivery projects in Buikwe District Local Government Uganda

Public participation in services delivery projects in Buikwe District Local Government Uganda

Towards a Typology of Community Participation in the Tourism Development Process

Worlds Apart: A Social Theoretical Exploration of Local Networks, Natural Actors, and Practitioners of Rural Development in Southern Honduras

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