Barriers to Community Participation in Development Planning: Lessons from the Mutengene (Cameroon) Self‐Help Water Project

Ambe J. Njoh

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Barriers to Community Participation in Development Planning: Lessons from the Mutengene (Cameroon) Self‐Help Water Project

Ambe J. Njoh

School of Geosciences

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The study draws on the experience of the Mutengene, Cameroon self&hyphen;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&hyphen;issue bias, intra/inter&hyphen;group conflicts, gate&hyphen;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.

Original language	American English
Journal	Community Development Journal
Volume	37
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/37.3.233
State	Published - Jul 1 2002

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