Understanding participation in development: towards a framework

Holland, Jeremy; Jones, Stephen H.; Kardan, Andrew

doi:10.3828/idpr.2015.9

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“…(c) Participant empowerment: The participation of stakeholders in the decisions that affect them increases their capacity to influence such decisions, and thus increases their ownership of, commitment to and confidence in the outcomes [57][58][59][60]. (d) Better management and accountability: Participation and citizen engagement have been primarily defined as sources of empowerment and conditions for accountability [61][62][63]. Participation improves management decisions, as it allows for the integration of different sources of knowledge and increases the capacity for selecting suitable solutions [64].…”

Section: Participation In Water and Sanitation: The Outcomes And Impactsmentioning

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The Enabling Environment for Participation in Water and Sanitation: A Conceptual Framework

Jiménez

LeDeunff

Giné

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Water

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Participatory approaches are an important component of institutional frameworks for the governance of water resources and services. Studies on public participation in water management provide evidence for the outcomes of public participation and insights into the types of methods and the contexts under which participation can be meaningful. However, participatory processes are complex, and there is no single method by which to interpret, approach and implement them. This paper explores elements from the theory and practice of participation, applied to the management of water resources and water and sanitation services. Based on an in-depth literature review, we analyze the forms of participation in water and sanitation, their outcomes, as well as the contextual factors and procedural elements of participatory processes that affect their success. Contextual factors are those that are largely outside of the control of agencies or participants (e.g., demographics, history, and culture) or those that can only be influenced by management and institutional decisions in the mid- and long-term (e.g., the legal and institutional framework); while procedural elements are those over which agencies and participants have considerable control when designing and executing participatory efforts (e.g., representativeness and inclusivity, access to information, and opportunity to influence). We propose a framework that interrelates and integrates both contextual factors and procedural elements of participation. It, includes three additional aspects that are influenced by, and in turn influence, the context and the process: existing capacities for implementation of meaningful participatory processes, the resources that are allocated to them, and attitudes towards participatory processes. The framework helps conceptualize what we call the enabling environment for active, free, and meaningful participation in the delivery of water and sanitation services. By breaking down the complexities of participation, the framework supports practitioners and decision-makers to better design and implement participatory processes in water resources and water and sanitation services.

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Section: Participation In Water and Sanitation: The Outcomes And Impactsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Enabling Environment for Participation in Water and Sanitation: A Conceptual Framework

Jiménez

LeDeunff

Giné

et al. 2019

Water

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“…His paper, written with Stephen Jones and Andrew Kardan, considers participatory approaches to develop ment, highlighting the benefits of adopting a more disaggregated and less normative approach to participation (Holland, Jones and Kardan, 2015). Using an analysis of the Malawian health sector, they illustrate the benefits of a framework for analysing partic ipation which they have developed.…”

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Current trends and agendas in development research: an introduction to a special issue in honour of Bill Gould

Gough

Willis

2015

International Development Planning Review

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“…Framed as an alternative to externally imposed, expertoriented development prescriptions which treat the poor as passive recipients, 'bottom-up' participatory approaches view those on the margins as valuable actors and repositories of knowledge, whose active contribution can greatly improve the relevance, efficiency and sustainability of development projects (Cooke and Kothari, 2001, 5). Critical to the systematic endorsement of this paradigm shift from 'top-down' to 'bottom-up' are claims of 'empowerment' (Henkel and Stirrat, 2001, 171;Hickey and Mohan, 2005;Holland et al, 2015); a presumed outcome secured through the inclusion and participation of 'beneficiaries'. These purported empowering benefits extend to the realm of DRRM, where citizen participation and community engagement are increasingly promoted as crucial to hazard mitigation, vulnerability reduction and 'resilience-building' (Fernandez et al, 2012).…”

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Empowerment in the era of resilience-building: gendered participation in community-based (disaster) risk management in the Philippines

Ramalho

2019

International Development Planning Review

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Understanding participation in development: towards a framework

Cited by 3 publications

References 16 publications

The Enabling Environment for Participation in Water and Sanitation: A Conceptual Framework

The Enabling Environment for Participation in Water and Sanitation: A Conceptual Framework

Current trends and agendas in development research: an introduction to a special issue in honour of Bill Gould

Empowerment in the era of resilience-building: gendered participation in community-based (disaster) risk management in the Philippines

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