Public participation in water management in northern Thai highlands

Water Policy ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 395-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helene Heyd ◽  
Andreas Neef
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Stakeholder Analysis ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Local People ◽  
Northern Thailand ◽  
Decentralized Governance ◽  
Constitutional Right ◽  
The Right

In the early 1990s, Thailand launched an ambitious program of decentralized governance, conferring greater responsibilities upon sub-district administrations and providing fiscal opportunities for local development planning. This process was reinforced by Thailand's new Constitution of 1997, which explicitly assures individuals, communities and local authorities the right to participate in the management of natural resources. Drawing on a study of water management in the Mae Sa watershed, northern Thailand, this article analyzes to what extent the constitutional right of participation has been put into practice. To this end, a stakeholder analysis was conducted in the watershed, with a focus on local people's interests and strategies in water management and the transformation of participatory policies through government agencies at the local level. While government officers stressed the importance of stakeholder inclusion and cooperation with the local people, there is a sharp contrast between the official rhetoric and the reality on the ground. The analysis reveals that government officers, particularly in the conservation-oriented agencies, are not disposed to devolve power to lower levels and that participation of local people in water management seems currently to be passive or, at best, consultative in nature. In order to deal with the increasingly severe water problems in northern Thailand, decision makers have to recognize the value of participation and promote a profound change in government officers' attitudes towards local people through training programs and incentives.

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.

scholarly journals Analyzing the European Practice on the Formation and Functioning of Local Self-Government and the System of Public Management of Territory Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (515) ◽  
pp. 149-156
Author(s):  
I. V. Yaroshenko ◽  
◽  
I. B. Semigulina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Public Power ◽  
Democratic Institution ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Effective System ◽  
Territorial Organization ◽  
The Right

Effective until 2014 in Ukraine, the system of local self-government did not meet the existing needs of society. The functioning of local self-government bodies in most territorial communities did not provide the formation and support of the proper level of quality of life of citizens, necessary for the full development of people, their self-realization, protection of rights, provision of high-quality and affordable administrative, social and other services, did not create a favorable living space in the respective territories. The process of formation and development of the Ukrainian State required urgent reform of the administrative-territorial, political system and the establishment of a democratic institution of public power - local self-government, which is defined as the right and real capacity of a territorial community within the laws and powers to independently solve the issues of local development of their territories. Therefore, the reform of decentralization of power in Ukraine in 2014 was defined as one of the priorities, which provides for the construction of an effective system of territorial organization of power and public management of socio-economic development of territories. A detailed study of the experience of the formation and functioning of local self-government, best practices of the world countries, and in particular the EU countries, which have achieved sustainable development of territories and improved the welfare of their citizens, is relevant for the development of modern Ukraine and its regions and territories, as well as for the formation of its own effective public administration system at the local level.

Using Open Data and Citizen Science in Understanding Disaster Risk: Experience from Western parts of Nepal

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Puja Shakya ◽  
Binod Prasad Parajuli
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Hazard Exposure

<p>Nepal is highly vulnerable to multiple disasters due to its topography and geographic conditions. It also suffers with data deficiency in better understanding the impacts of disasters and existing capacities to cope with such disasters. This information scarcity severely hinders understanding the disasters and their associated risks in the areas. This also hampers local and regional risk reduction, preparedness and response, limiting rigorous and robust disaster risk modelling and assessment. For regions facing recurrent disaster, there is a strong need of more integrated and proactive perspective into the management of disaster risks and innovations. Recent advances on digital and spatial technologies, citizen science and open data are introducing opportunities through prompt data collection, analysis and visualization of locally relevant spatial data. These data could be used as evidence in local development planning as well as linking in different services of the areas. This will be helpful for sustained investment in disaster risk management and resilience building. In current federal structure of Nepal, there is an acute data deficiency at the local level (municipalities and wards) in terms of data about situation analysis, demographics, and statistics, disaster impacts (hazard, exposure and vulnerability) etc. This has caused hindrances to all the relevant stakeholders including government, non-government and donors in diagnosing the available resources, capacities for effective planning and managing disaster risks. In this context, we are piloting an approach to fulfil existing data gaps by mobilizing citizen science through the use of open data sources in Western Nepal. We have already tested it through trainings to the local authorities and the communities in using open data for data collection. Likewise, in one of our upcoming project on data innovations, we shall create a repository of available open data sources; develop analytical tools for risk assessment which will be able to provide climate related services. Later, upon testing the tools, these can be implemented at the local level for informed decision making.</p>

scholarly journals Designing the Participation on Local Development Planning: From Literature Review to Adaptive Framework for Practice

Societies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Michal Hrivnák ◽  
Peter Moritz ◽  
Katarína Melichová ◽  
Oľga Roháčiková ◽  
Lucia Pospišová
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Practical Implication ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
Individual Potential

This exploratory review of the literature provides a comprehensive overview of the settings that are available to the planner when managing participatory strategic planning of spatial socio-economic development on the local level. We contextualize individual potential configurations of participation in local development planning practice, documented in a number of case studies from different parts of the world, in order to reflect the multidimensionality of the participatory planning process. These reflections are used to build a participation plan model, which aimed to help local planners, especially local governments, to optimize the participation of local stakeholders, according to the specifics of the local environment. The paper evaluates the options of planners to manage the participation from perspective of the organization of participation, the determination of its scope, selection of stakeholders, methods and techniques of communication, decision-making and visualization, as well as the deployment of resources, or the possibility of promotion and dissemination of information. As a practical implication of this review, we compose a participation matrix, which is intended to be an auxiliary tool for planners to establish own locally-specific participation plans and that can serve as tool for education, or life-long learning of planners.

scholarly journals Relationship between spatial and development planning at the local level in the Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

2020 ◽  
pp. 71-79
Author(s):  
Branislav Bijelić ◽  
Dejan Đorđević
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Current Topic ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Basic Hypothesis ◽  
Republika Srpska

The mutual relationship between spatial and development planning at the local level is a very current topic that has concrete consequences for development processes in local government units in the territory of Republika Srpska (RS). Although it is still unregulated from the legislative point of view, local development planning is much more present in practice, which is primarily manifested in the almost complete coverage of the territory of the RS by local development strategies. The connection of these documents to spatial and urban plans has not been treated in an appropriate way, which leads to a certain degree of their mutual inconsistency. The basic hypothesis of this paper arises from this statement, and that is that the lack of a clearly defined connection with spatial planning in the methodology of drafting local development documents leads to the inconsistency of these documents as the final result. As an auxiliary hypothesis, the assumption will be investigated that a large discrepancy in the coverage of the territory of the Republika Srpska between local development strategies and spatial plans of local government units also contributed to this inconsistency.

scholarly journals Proses Transaktif, Interaksi Antar Aktor Agen Transfer dalam Pembangunan Lokal

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 400-408
Author(s):  
Muhammad Taufiq ◽  
Suhirman Suhirman ◽  
Benedictus Kombaitan
Keyword(s):  
Central Government ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Planning Program ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Implementation Guidelines ◽  
Decision Making Tool ◽  
Transfer Agents

Planning as a decision-making tool got intervention from the actors involved in it, through deliberation which is transactive planning and face-to-face dialogue between planners as transfer agents and the community. This situation has resulted in a mismatch between the priority policies for using the budget set at the local level and the implementation guidelines set by the central government. Questions arise how interactions between actors occurred in a transactive process. This article evaluates the interaction between involved actors in the transactive process, which occurs during a practice of local development planning program activity. Evaluations were carried out on village fund program cases in Indonesia, through qualitative approach analysis. The study aims to provide an understanding of the interactions between transfer agent actors during deliberation at the local level. The results show that the interaction between transfer agents conduct through the practice of dominating ideas, which tend to emphasize the dominance of certain parties in prioritizing budget use policies.

scholarly journals Experiences and dilemmas of strategic action planning implementation on the local level

Spatium ◽  
2008 ◽  
pp. 27-30
Author(s):  
Zoran Njegovan
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Action Planning ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Strategic Action ◽  
Development Programming ◽  
Framework Conditions

In the paper are specifically analyzed and discussed experiences and dilemmas in the process of strategic development programming which appeared in West Balkan Countries during the regional and local development projects implementation. The main critical framework conditions regards to Impediments on a Local level connected with different structures which led to different experiences, successes and problems; Accuracy and relevance of data and information; Institutional competence; Consideration of horizontal and vertical relations of local community which neglect their required active role in the development process; Financial restrictions as a considerable bottleneck for successful development planning upon unstable resource flow; Political culture norms and values; and The role of external experts and improvement of the above mentioned aspects which will enhance the situation of development planning at the local level in a sustainable manner. It is concluded that the various aspects are strongly interrelated and are forming a spider net with the object of the development process, the municipality, the town or the city. It is also concluded that the success of development efforts of the subordinated administrative levels depends to a high degree on adequate framework-conditions, which have to be formed and fostered at the superior level. .

scholarly journals Mainstreaming Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into Local Development Planning: Lessons from Adentan Municipal Assembly in Ghana

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Ellen Forkuo Duah ◽  
Albert Ahenkan ◽  
Daniel Larbi
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Development Plan ◽  
Theory Of Change ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Municipal Assembly

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were adopted in September 2015 represent a challenging worldwide action plan that aims to end poverty, achieve gender equality, in diverse dimensions, promote decent work among others. Global realization of the SDGs by 2030 is highly dependent on the localization and effective implementation of the goals, yet little is known about diverse perspective of SDG localization and challenges involved. It is in response to this that the study examines the magnitude to which SDGs have been integrated into local development planning using Adentan municipal as a case study. A qualitative method with an in-depth interview of 20 key informants was adopted. The study developed a conceptual framework which was used to examine Adentan municipal Assembly on SDG mainstreaming. The study also did a critical analysis of the medium-term development plan of the municipal assembly to identify how the Assembly has effectively mainstreamed the SDGs at the local level. The findings from the study revealed that the authorities are aware of the SDGs. Majority of the targets in SDGs (1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,11,13,14,16 and 17) have been integrated into the local development plan of the Assembly. However, SDG 7 and 15 were of no interest to the municipal. The findings further indicated that financing, low awareness of the relevance of the SDGs among the citizens in the municipality and bureaucracy are the major challenges of SDG mainstreaming at the local level. The study proposed a framework which extends the theory of change on effective SDG mainstreaming and can be added to other existing framework on SDG mainstreaming at the local level to address the challenges and needs of SDG mainstreaming for development initiative and may inform future research in mainstreaming and planning.

Capacity of Local Development Planning in Slovenia: Strengths and Weaknesses of Local Sustainable Development Strategies

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 547-573 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomaž Deželan ◽  
Alem Maksuti ◽  
Matjaž Uršič
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Transition Period ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
General Idea ◽  
Agenda 21 ◽  
Sustainable Future ◽  
Local Sustainable Development

Despite being coined by international forums and promoted chiefly by international/supranational organisations and clubs, sustainable development is a concept that in essence rests on and is largely determined by the local level. The local level’s primacy in terms of introducing the principles of sustainability is openly stipulated by Agenda 21, thus providing the impetus for local sustainable development strategies – Local Agenda 21. These community-specific, long-term visions of sustainable co-existence serve as an important strategic tool for overcoming challenges communities may face while maintaining the general idea of the future. As prime standardised artifacts, local sustainable development strategies represent an excellent insight into the capacity of an individual community to achieve a sustainable future and deal with potential challenges. In this paper, we analysed four such visions of a sustainable future for two city and two minor Slovenian municipalities in order to examine their capacity to develop into sustainable communities. By employing George and Kirkpatrick’s (2006) framework for assessing sustainable development strategies, we identified useful and problematic aspects of the documents prepared by the city and town municipalities. The analysis showed that the transition period in Slovenia has left a significant impact on development planning and its consequences have yet to be fully resolved.

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