Community Participation in Pollution Control

Community Participation in Community-based Rehabilitation Programmes

Central to the community-based rehabilitation (CBR) approach is the concept of community participation. While many projects are based on the CBR approach, it is not evident how many CBR projects indeed use and measure community participation. The purpose of this study was to qualitatively analyse the extent of evaluation of community participation in CBR studies evaluated over the last thirty y...

Empowering the Community: Information Strategies for Pollution Control

Disclosure strategies, which involve public and/or private attempts to increase the availability of information on pollution, form the basis for what some have called the third wave in pollution control policy (after legal regulation--the first wave--and market-based instruments --the second wave). While these strategies have become commonplace in natural resource settings (forest certification...

Community Participation Model for Prevention and Control of Diabetes Mellitus

Community participation in health care.

Letters Community participation in health care Editor – I agree, but only in part, with the views expressed in the editorial " Community participation in health impact assessment: intuitively appealing but practically difficult " (1). The authors have considered many important issues relating to community participation, such as democratic processes, community empowerment, and top-down professio...

Youth Participation in Community Evaluation

Should young people participate in community evaluation research and, if so, what roles should they play? We believe that youth participation is desirable, but that it remains relatively undeveloped as a field of practice or subject of study. For this reason, this paper provides perspective on the increasing involvement by young people, identifies the participation patterns and evaluation roles...