Participatory Development
Participatory Development
Participatory Development
DEVELOPMENT
GENERAL PUBLIC
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-who are those affected directly or
indirectly by the project
REPRESENTATIVE ASSEMBLY
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-elected government bodies
GOVERNMENT
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- cabinets and civil servants.
PRIVATE SECTOR
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- umbrella groups representing groups
within the private sector, professional
associations, chambers of commerce
(Reyes, 2014).
PERSPECTIVES OF
PARTICIPATORY
DEVELOPMENT
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SOCIAL MOVEMENT
PERSPECTIVE
It refers to participation as the mobilization
of people to get rid of unjust hierarchies,
power, knowledge, and economic
distributions.
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INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Defines participation as the incorporation
and reach of inputs by relevant groups in
the design and implementation of a
development project (Reyes, 2014).
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Forms/Concepts
of
Participatory
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Development
PASSIVE PARTICIPATION
The local people participate by making them informed of what
happened or is happening in the project.
PARTICIPATION BY CONSULTATION 13
EMPOWERMENT PARTICIPATION
The local people have the ownership and power to control the
process and take part of the analysis.
STRENGTHS
- Influencing public policy to provide a check on the power of
government. It also improves the effectiveness, efficiency and
sustainability of development programmes (Reyes, 2014).
- Capacity to improve the match between beneficiaries’ preferences and
the allocation of public goods and benefits.
- Role of the community has given importance as well other stakeholders
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- Increases local people's interest, awareness and participation which leads
to a supportive relationship among stakeholders involved.
- Applies a variety of methods that can be used flexibly, according to the
situation
- Provides a way of solving some of the problems encountered with the
other approaches
- Poor people’s views are elicited to shape plans and contributed to
development strategies.
WEAKNESSES
- People’s assessment of their condition can be biased
- There may exist different levels of participation
among local people
- Time consuming
- Reflective of existing power relations in a 16
community
- Sample size is too small and not representative
APPLICATION
in FORESTRY
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DENR - Department Administrative Order
123 (1989)