We examine the case for donors providing financial incentives to NGOs to increase community participation. We show that, when such incentives are provided, there need not exist any meaningful relationship between beneficiary welfare and the extent of community participation implemented by an NGO. Higher community participation is consistent even with reduced beneficiary welfare. Thus, eliminati...

Abstract Community management has remained the dominant paradigm for managing rural water supplies in sub-Saharan Africa. There is a widespread perception that community participation principles are inherently embedded model. In this paper, we analyze how an international nongovernmental organization engages communities their projects, and ways which members able to participate governance of su...

Introduction Community participation is rapidly being viewed as a requirement for the successful acceptance of health services; it integrates a complicated process which involves customs, beliefs, culture and power relations, not only structures and policies. Yet, there is a wide knowledge gap and changes favouring community participation in primary health care is still minimal. This study aims...

Community participation has been hailed as the panacea for most community programmes. Community participation at high levels empowers communities, increases self-reliance, self-awareness and confidence in self-examination of problems and seeking solutions for them. Behavioural changes are promoted and utilisation and support of services is facilitated, which are of great importance to all commu...

What does it mean to be a central participant? An actor can participate in a single episode of an activity, and she can also participate within a community. The degree of participation can be greater or lesser depending on a number of factors. The primary participants are those that make direct contributions to an episode of activity. The secondary ones witness the action but do not make direct...

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...

Existing research divides online community participants into two separate groups: posters, who publicly participate in the community’s activities, and lurkers, who read but do not post or respond to ongoing conversations. The current study expands the concept of participation patterns in online communities from the standard binary distinction to a broader perspective of participation behaviors....