Many development thinkers and practitioners have been pondering over community participation for the last two to three decades — some even called the 1980s the decade of participation. To a large ...

The Policy Research Report Localizing Development brings analytical rigor to a field that has been the subject of intense debate and advocacy, and billions of dollars in development aid. It briefly ...

The article begins by identifying the shared features of participation, empowerment and citizenship by reviewing the literature and grounding the discussion in a case study in health reform in one ...