TY - JOUR
T1 - Barriers to Community Participation in Development Planning: Lessons from the Mutengene (Cameroon) Self‐Help Water Project
AU - Njoh, Ambe J.
PY - 2002/7/1
Y1 - 2002/7/1
N2 - The study draws on the experience of the Mutengene, Cameroon self‐help water project to: (i) underscore the indispensable role of community participation (CP); and (ii) identify and discuss leading barriers to CP in development planning . Eleven constraints, including the paternalistic posture of authorities, prescriptive role of the state, embellishment of successes, selective participation, inattention to negative results, hard‐issue bias, intra/inter‐group conflicts, gate‐keeping by leaders, excessive pressures for immediate results, lack of interest, population size, and belief systems, are discussed. Efforts to promote understanding of CP as a viable strategy for implementing capital improvement projects in LDCs are recommended.
AB - The study draws on the experience of the Mutengene, Cameroon self‐help water project to: (i) underscore the indispensable role of community participation (CP); and (ii) identify and discuss leading barriers to CP in development planning . Eleven constraints, including the paternalistic posture of authorities, prescriptive role of the state, embellishment of successes, selective participation, inattention to negative results, hard‐issue bias, intra/inter‐group conflicts, gate‐keeping by leaders, excessive pressures for immediate results, lack of interest, population size, and belief systems, are discussed. Efforts to promote understanding of CP as a viable strategy for implementing capital improvement projects in LDCs are recommended.
UR - https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/geo_facpub/1951
UR - https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/37.3.233
U2 - 10.1093/cdj/37.3.233
DO - 10.1093/cdj/37.3.233
M3 - Article
VL - 37
JO - Community Development Journal
JF - Community Development Journal
ER -