scholarly journals Participatory Development of Technologies as a Way to Increase Community Participation: the Cidade de Deus Web Portal Case

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Celso Alexandre Souza de Alvear ◽  
Michel Thiollent
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Participatory Development ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
Community Based Organizations

This article aims to discuss the process of development and improvement of a community web portal from the perspective of references such as social capital, solidary technology, local development and community organizing. As a case study we used the Cidade de Deus web portal (www.cidadededeus.org.br), result of a project of the Technical Solidarity Lab (Soltec / UFRJ) with community-based organizations (CBOs) of Cidade de Deus. Our main hypothesis is that more important than the technology itself, the process of developing this technology in a participatory manner can encourage community participation.

Zoned for Change: A Historical Case Study of the Belmont Zone of Choice

2012 ◽  
Vol 114 (10) ◽  
pp. 1-40
Author(s):  
Ramón A. Martínez ◽  
Karen H. Quartz
Keyword(s):  
School District ◽  
School Reform ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Strategic Alliances ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Educational Leaders ◽  
Historical Case Study ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Organizations

Background/Context Over the past two decades, scholars have increasingly called for educational leaders to collaborate with community-based organizations in their efforts to bring about school reform. Observing that school reform efforts often fail to include those most impacted by failing policies and practices, these scholars have turned their attention to the role of community organizations that advocate on behalf of parents and students in under-served communities. These scholars have explored the potential of community organizing strategies for transforming public schools, documenting the crucial role of strategic alliances between community-based organizations and school district officials in bringing about greater equity and improved student outcomes. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study The purpose of this study is to explore how educational leaders and community-based organizations collaborated to bring about unprecedented education reform in the nation's second largest school district. Research Design This historical case study is based on in-depth interviews with 11 high-profile school district, union, community, and other educational leaders across seven key partner institutions and organizations that were involved in the development of the Belmont Zone of Choice from 2001 to 2009. Conclusions/Recommendations This study reveals the kinds of obstacles facing reformers in large urban school districts, and it illustrates how concerned educators, community-based organizations, and educational reformers can form strategic alliances to fight for meaningful change in underserved communities. Rather than provide a simplistic or idealistic depiction of collaboration, however, this case study illustrates the tensions and struggles that emerged as diverse—and sometimes antagonistic—social actors collaborated to bring about education reform at the local level. It also illustrates that strategic alliances are not necessarily sufficient to ensure successful reform implementation within contexts of political and economic asymmetry. As such, the history of the Belmont Zone of Choice highlights both the promise and challenge of community organizing for school reform.

scholarly journals Community participation based on social capital to enhance tourist visit at Lake Toba Parapat North Sumatera

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 00015
Author(s):  
Erika Revida ◽  
Sukarman Purba
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Data Organization ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
North Sumatra

The The purpose of this research was to analyze the participation of community based on social capital to enhance tourist visit at Lake Toba Parapat North Sumatera. The study utililized both qualitative and quantitative methods. 80 respondents (head of family) were interviewed at Lake Toba Parapat North Sumatera. Thte analysis technique of data used quantitative research used descriptive statistics, and multiple regression analysis, whereas qualitative research started from the data organization, reduction and interpretation of data and took conclusion on the results of research. The results of the research showed that the hypothesis of research that there was a positive and significant influence between social capital on the community participation to enhance tourist visits in Lake Toba Parapat North Sumatra was accepted. Participation of community based on social capital to enhance tourist visit was in moderat and it can be further improved by social activities including communication, information sharing and education on the importance of community participation based on social capital such as cohesiveness, altruism, networking, coorperation, unselfish feeling, and trust.

scholarly journals KHF Entrepreneurship Support and the Impact of COVID-19 on Jordanian Entrepreneurs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lami Raei
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Youth Participation ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Organizations ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
The Impact

The King Hussein Foundation (KHF) partners with Oxfam in the Youth Participation and Employment programme (YPE) to promote entrepreneurship through supporting youth to engage in business start-ups and scale-ups. KHF projects support community-based organizations (CBOs) in establishing revolving funds, training CBOs in microfinance management and building the capacity of potential entrepreneurs. Apprenticeships and shadowing are two examples of popular approaches to facilitating entrepreneurship and self-employment. During the COVID-19 crisis, KHF has continued the implementation of activities virtually. This case study presents examples of young people utilizing financial support, reaching out to new clients using ICT, and eventually exploring ways to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19.

BUILDING THE SOCIAL CAPITAL IN RURAL AREAS’ SMES WOMEN COOPERATIVE, GARGALIANI, SOUTH-WEST PELOPONNESOS

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonidas Papakonstantinidis
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Local People ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
South West ◽  
The Social ◽  
Development Procedure

The purpose of this paper is to prove that the rationalization of the “Integrated Endogenous Local Development” should be proved to be a valuable policy mean, under the proposed methodological procedure of Sensitizing Local People, through the “animation procedure”, toward developing their own skills, capacities and therefore their place, that are asked by the local SMEs Sensitization may be proved to be the fundamental methodological tool, for building the social capital at local level, by making valuable local people’s “intrinsic inclinations”-a “term” which is stronger than “capacities”- under a new value system, and human communication. ”Sensitization” - as the upper limit of the sensitization procedure- is been approached, step by step, especially: Establishing the “bottom-up approach” in planning the development procedure at local level, Establishing the “animation procedure” among local people, Analysing local people “intrinsic inclinations” in context with a “system value”, Creating a “team psychology” among local people, Encouraging local people in finding and adopting the local “Flag Theme”. The proposed procedure may be useful, especially in small, less developed and isolated rural areas. A case-study “Women Cooperative, Gargaliani, South-West Peloponnesos”, is referred as a typical case of the development procedure, based on local people (women) animation in Greece.

Toward an Institutional Theory of Community and Community Associations: a Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Milofsky
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Limited Liability ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Organizations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Community Associations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Over Time

AbstractThis article argues the position that the symbolic sense of community is a product of action by associations and larger community-based organizations. It draws on a theory from urban sociology called “the community of limited liability.” In the past this theory, first articulated by Morris Janowitz, has mostly been used to argue that residents living in a local neighborhood feel a sense of identification with that area to the extent that the symbolism of that neighborhood has been developed. This article extends Janowitz’s theory to apply to local associations and their efforts to create activities, movements, and products that encourage residents to expand their sense of symbolic attachment to a place. We argue that this organizational method has long been used by local associations but it has not been recognized as an organizational theory. Because associations have used this approach over time, communities have a historical legacy of organizing and symbol creating efforts by many local associations. Over time they have competed, collaborated, and together developed a collective vision of place. They also have created a local interorganizational field and this field of interacting associations and organizations is dense with what we call associational social capital. Not all communities have this history of associational activity and associational social capital. Where it does exist, the field becomes an institutionalized feature of the community. This is what we mean by an institutional theory of community.

scholarly journals Implementasi Kebijakan Program Pembangunanpartisipatif Berbasis Komunitas (P3BK) di Kecamatan Pondok Melati Kota Bekasi

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-75
Author(s):  
Indrawaty Gita ◽  
Mohammad Mulyadi
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Standard Operating Procedure ◽  
Participatory Development ◽  
City Government ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Government Program ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Standard Operating

The Community-Based Participatory Development Program (P3BK) is the Bekasi City Government Program for the implementation of development through community participation and self-help. This paper wants to describe the implementation of the P3BK policy in Pondok Melati District, Bekasi City. This research is qualitative in nature where data is collected through interviews with self-managed P3BK implementers, then the data is analyzed by Miles and Huberman Models. Overall the program went well, which was based on several factors, namely: (1) communication, which included the distribution of effective communication, sufficient clarity on the P3BK policy by the implementers of the activities, as well as consistency in providing good direction; (2) resources, including competent and capable enough human resources; (3) the disposition/attitude of P3BK implementers: sufficient capacity and capability and high dedication of P3BK implementers; (4) organizational structure/bureaucracy, including the availability of Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for P3BK implementation and each program implementer has understood and implemented the SOP, as well as effective bureaucratic fragmentation.AbtrakProgram Pembangunan Partisipatif Berbasis Komunitas (P3BK) merupakan Program Pemerintah Kota Bekasi untuk pelaksanaan pembangunan lewat partisipasi dan swadaya masyarakat. Tulisan ini ingin mendeskripsikan implementasi kebijakan P3BK di Kecamatan Pondok Melati Kota Bekasi. Penelitian ini bersifat kualitatif di mana data dikumpulkan melalui wawancara pada pelaksana swakelola P3BK, kemudian data dianalisis dengan Model Miles dan Huberman. Secara keseluruhan program berjalan baik, yang didorong beberapa faktor yaitu: (1) komunikasi yang meliputi penyaluran komunikasi yang cukup efektif, kejelasan yang cukup baik atas kebijakan P3BK oleh para pelaksana kegiatan, serta konsistensi dalam memberikan arahan yang cukup baik; (2) sumber daya yang meliputi SDM pelaksana program yang dinilai cukup kompeten dan kapabel; (3) disposisi/sikap pelaksana P3BK yang meliputi kapasitas dan kapabilitas pelaksana P3BK yang cukup memadai, dedikasi yang tinggi. (4) struktur organisasi/birokrasi yang meliputi telah tersedianya Standar Operasional Prosedur (SOP) pelaksanaan P3BK dan masing-masing pelaksana program telah memahami dan melaksanakan SOP tersebut, serta fragmentasi birokrasi yang telah berjalan efektif.

scholarly journals Reflexivity in the negotiation of participation: Insights from a culturally-embedded community project in Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Nguyen Hai Duy Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Participatory Development ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Auto Ethnography ◽  
Community Projects ◽  
Culturally Embedded

<p>This research aims to explore the possible negotiation of participation within development practice in Vietnam based on different understandings of reflexivity among different development actors. Specifically, it adopts a qualitative approach, using a sustainable community livelihoods project in Central Vietnam as a case study, to ask the following questions: (1) How do Western and local development facilitators understand reflexivity in participatory development in Vietnam?; and (2) How do Western and local development facilitators negotiate and practice reflexivity in participatory development in Vietnam?  These questions are important because while participation and fieldwork partnerships in community projects promise mutually-beneficial opportunities for shared learning, they also involve negotiations of power. The reflexivity of development practitioners assumes that they can obtain thorough understanding and knowledge of the local culture and facilitate participation appropriately, which may not actually be the case. Secondly, little is known about how participants think or practice their own culturally-embedded understandings of reflexivity in their interactions with non-local practitioners. Thirdly, there is a knowledge gap about how participation intersects with reflexivity as “Western” development discourses and local understandings are negotiated.  Semi-structured interviews were employed with three groups of people positioned differently within the case study project: international development practitioners, Vietnamese development practitioners and local community members. Interpretative methods of auto-ethnography and reflexive writings were used to analyse the researcher’s own understandings of reflexivity and the working of power from his prior work as a translator in this project.  Building on existing critiques of reflexivity, and through careful analysis, the thesis interrogates assumed links between reflexivity and better facilitation in community projects. The negotiations explored in this research include rethinking the principle of reflexivity in the context of local cultural norms as these significantly shape values of development work and likely benefits for practitioners and participants. From extracted perspectives of research participants through semi-structured interviews and the researcher’s reflections by means of auto-ethnography, an alternative approach is suggested to aid development practitioners in reflecting upon notions of “self” and “others” in order to examine various conceptions of participation in theory and practice.</p>

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