Participatory rural development without participation: Insights from Ukraine

Kvartiuk, Vasyl; Curtiss, Jarmila

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2019.04.002

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“…Factors that promote community development include engagement with nonhumans (Lendvay, 2021), collective governance of common-pool resources and socioecological systems (Ruiz-Ballesteros and Gálvez-García, 2014), bottom-linked governance and social work innovation (Castro-Arce and Vanclay, 2019), and transdisciplinary approaches (Westhuizen et al, 2021). While neoliberalism and privatization have led to elite capture, social isolation, environmental degradation, uneven community development (Toolis, 2021), and participatory rural development without participation in postcommunist countries, centralized and hierarchical governance systems pertinent to these countries may introduce serious challenges for community-driven development and newly established community-based organizations (Kvartiuk and Curtiss, 2019).…”

Section: Community Developmentmentioning

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Gentrifying rural community development: A case study of Bama Panyang River Basin in Guangxi, China

TAN

Zhou

2022

J. Geogr. Sci.

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Rural gentrification is deeply characterized by institutional context and spatiotemporal heterogeneity. Based on a diachronic field investigation, this paper constructs an analytical framework for gentrifying rural community development (GRCD) with a “community” theoretical perspective and analytical approach, defines the concept of GRCD, and analyzes the main characteristics, formation mechanism and regulation path of a typical gentrifying rural community in the Panyang River Basin of Bama County, Guangxi. Driven by factors such as the complex flow and heterogeneous living space practices of the host-guest community, the longevity “myth” led by commercial capital and consumption demand, and multiple action logics and desertification community governance, great changes have occurred in the social space and material landscape of the rural longevity community. Such changes include comprehensive reconstruction of the resident population, surface interaction and social separation of the host-guest community, residential structure change and settlement landscape renewal, and delocalization of the healing landscape and lifestyle changes. We propose policy insights in three areas: public and localization institutional arrangements, shared and comfortable gentrifying rural community making, and inclusive and synergistic gentrifying rural community governance. Through these aspects, we provide insights from the Chinese case for the gentrification and community development of rural areas in the Global South.

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Section: Community Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gentrifying rural community development: A case study of Bama Panyang River Basin in Guangxi, China

TAN

Zhou

2022

J. Geogr. Sci.

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“…Apart from the mere pretence of local democratisation as has consistently been in case of Pakistan (Mohmand and Cheema 2007), there are other issues caused by the lack of any support from the central authority. For instance, the developing local governments experience the flaws in the administrative frameworks, the nation-state is simply perpetuating an inherited colonial legacy, as has been the case in Pakistan (Cheema et al 2005; Mukherjee 2016), and the state tends to continue to be centralised with its real motives hidden (Botes and Rensburg 2000;Phago and Molosi-France 2018;Kvartiuk and Curtiss 2019). Examples of this have been given by Agrawal and Ribot (1999) who presented a few case studies of decentralisation from South Asia and West Africa, showing that in the countries concerned, Nepal in South Asia and Senegal and Mali in West Africa, central governments maintained the centralised powers even in the devolved system of local governments.…”

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Fragile states, decentralisation and the nature of barriers to citizen participation in local government: a view from Pakistan

Ali

2022

SN Soc Sci

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The purpose of decentralisation reforms is to narrow the gap between the public and government and increase public participation in decision-making. However, empirical evidence from developing countries suggests otherwise. A case in point is Pakistan, even though it has a well-structured local government system consisting of three levels of government, district, tehsil and union councils. Nevertheless, Pakistan’s nascent but fragile democracy and the non-democratic nature of decision-making at the state level prevent public participation and as a result do not remove but rather create obstacles to citizens’ involvement in service delivery. This paper therefore argues that citizen participation in Pakistan’s local government system faces more barriers which are imposed by the centralised state rather than removing hurdles to community participation. I demonstrate that having well-structured local governments is not enough for community engagement instead of a nation-state’s strong commitment to pro-community participation. The aim of this study is to identify and examine the barriers to public participation and how they prevent participation in the local government service delivery process, especially when non-democratic countries such as Pakistan introduce local government reforms. A qualitative study was carried out with a questionnaire containing seven open-ended qualitative questions. The thematically analysed results show that the military establishment introduced local government systems which have used local governments to suppress community autonomy and prevent community participation. As there is a patron/client relationship between the central government of Pakistan and the feudal lords and local elites, local elites have indulged in corruption and favouritism which hinder public participation at the grassroots level in the local governments in the province of Sindh, in Pakistan.

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“…Concluding the review of the issues concerning potential collaboration of citizens and local authorities, it bears noting that the literature touching on the subject rarely provides comprehensive solutions for PB in rural areas (some of the few indicated countries are Peru [59][60][61], top down process design and participation of vulnerable groups; Poland [62], coproduction of public services and PB system design; and Indonesia and Kenya [63], legal and finance issues). In most cases, this is caused by the lack of national regulations, whilst detailed areas of the analysis of participation mainly pertain to, in the case of China [64][65][66] for different areas of case studies, water supply, area planning, and waste management; in case of the UK [67], PB process design; for Russia [68], PB vs. public services delivery; for the Czech Republic [69], elderly and civic engagement; for Ukraine [70], problems with participation processes; for the Philippines [71], PB and poverty; for Italy [72], participation and smart villages; and worldwide [73,74], community participation in health care design and provision.…”

Section: Citizen Controlmentioning

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How a Participatory Budget Can Support Sustainable Rural Development—Lessons From Poland

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Since the announcement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the need for localization of SDGs has been emphasized. In this context, sustainable rural development is still a relatively undescribed area in the context of using the participatory budget as a tool to implement SDGs. Few countries have introduced legal regulations in practice, enabling the creation of participatory budgets (especially in rural areas), so a multifaceted analysis of a decade of Poland's experience may provide important guidelines for countries considering introducing such solutions, which we consider to be the main purpose of this study. This is the first study covering all communes where participatory budgets (Solecki Fund—FS) were created in Poland during the 2010–2018 period (up to 60% of all), covering both the analysis of the process of creating FSs, the directions of spending and the scale of spending (including regional differentiation), as well as legal regulations and the consequences of including central government support in this mechanism. On the basis of the research, it can be observed that, despite the small scale of FS spending, the number of municipalities using this form of citizen participation is increasing. At the same time, there is significant variation between regions, which indicates the flexibility of the FSs in adapting to the needs reported by residents. The analysed directions of expenditure indicate that the FSs are in line with the SDG objectives related to the improvement of residents' quality of life. It can be concluded that, despite the existing legal regulations, the introduction of the Solecki Fund undoubtedly depends on the political will of the local government's legislative authorities and the willingness of residents to participate in decisions on spending directions.

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Participatory rural development without participation: Insights from Ukraine

Cited by 16 publications

References 49 publications

Gentrifying rural community development: A case study of Bama Panyang River Basin in Guangxi, China

Gentrifying rural community development: A case study of Bama Panyang River Basin in Guangxi, China

Fragile states, decentralisation and the nature of barriers to citizen participation in local government: a view from Pakistan

How a Participatory Budget Can Support Sustainable Rural Development—Lessons From Poland

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