scholarly journals Community Participation as a Strategy to Address Water Shortage: A Tale of Bigwa and Lukuyu Wards in Morogoro

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Idda Lyatonga Swai
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Water Project ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Implementation Stage ◽  
Power And Influence

The efforts to involve the community in determining their own destination in terms of needs and resources can only be achieved when citizens play an active role and at some degree demonstrate significant power and influence on decisions. Community power and influence are key elements embedded in the governance circle. Community participation in the governance, ceteris Paribas, enhances citizens’ skills and capacity to support their own projects. Therefore, the notion of community participation cannot be overemphasized. The thorough examination of it at its initial stage is imperative. In that regard, this article examines how local community members of Bigwa and Lukuyu wards participated in MABILU water project. Data were collected from ordinary members of the respective wards, Ward Executive Officers (WEOs), neighbourhood chairpersons and water project representatives. Interview and Content analysis were used to collect and analyse the data respectively.The results indicate that the successfulness of MABILU water project was attributed by the fact that the citizens were involved from the initial stage of decision making to implementation stage. While 63% of the participants confirmed to have participated in initiating and decision making about the project, 80% of total respondents confirmed to have participated in the implementation stage. The findings show that community members participated in digging and burying trench, contributing money to facilitate the implementation, carrying building materials and cleaning the project area. Some community members participated by encouraging other members to support the project, managing and supervising the projects and supervising the construction of water kiosk. 

scholarly journals Partisipasi Masyarakat Lokal Dalam Pelestarian Istano Basa Pagaruyung Kabupaten Tanah Datar Sumatera Barat Sebagai Daya Tarik Wisata

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Khalida Prima Zola ◽  
I Made Adikampana
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Tourist Attraction ◽  
Local Resident ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Participation In Decision Making

The purpose of this study was to determine local community participation to preservation of Istano Basa Pagaruyung as tourism attraction. Data collection procedures using observation and interviews. Data were analyzed using qualitative descriptive technique. The results  based on the description of local community participation in supporting the preservation of Istano Basa Pagaruyung, Tanah Datar regency, West Sumatera as tourist attraction. The types of local community participation to support preservation of Istano Basa Pagaruyung is participation in implementation and participation in taking of benefits. While on the type of  participation in decision making and evaluation, the local community does not have an active role. Local communities participate as man power, treasure an skills. While there is no participation of idea or thought that have done by local resident around Istano Basa Pagaruyung tourist attraction.   Keywords: Participation, community, concervation

scholarly journals PARTISIPASI MASYARAKAT DALAM PENGEMBANGAN PASAR KUMANDANG

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (01) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Rysca Indreswari ◽  
Dyah Yuni Kurniawati ◽  
Irsyadul Ibad
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Market Participation ◽  
Market Planning ◽  
Participation In Decision Making ◽  
Tourism Potential ◽  
A Site ◽  
Rich History

Bongkotan Hamlet is the smallest hamlet located in Bojasari Village, Kertek District, Wonosobo Regency. In this place there is a site of Bongkotan Temple which is the legacy of the Syailendra Dynasty. Unfortunately, this rich history has not been managed optimally. Seeing this condition, Sigit Budi Martono along with creative activists in Bongkotan Hamlet invited the community to participate in reviving the tourism potential. The idea was initiated by creating the Kumandang Market located on Bongkotan hill, just across the Bongkotan Temple site area. It is intended that the existence of temple sites and village markets can be mutually integrated so that it can attract tourists to visit. Finally, after going through a preparatory process involving the local community, the official Kumandang Market was held on June 24, 2018 by utilizing the momentum of the Eid Mubarak holiday. Until now, the Kumandang Market has been held 18 times with the number of visitors increasing every week. This shows the existence of community participation in the development of the Kumandang Market. Based on the results of the study, community participation in the development of the Kumandang Market is indicated by the participation in decision making in Kumandang Market planning, participation in the implementation of the Kumandang Market, participation in taking utility of Kumandang Market, and participation in evaluating the Kumandang Market.

scholarly journals Local community participation in rhino conservation - Key to conservation success.

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
ADMIRE CHANYANDURA
Keyword(s):  
Community Participation ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Wildlife Trade ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Demand And Supply ◽  
Financial Benefits ◽  
Rhino Poaching

A robust framework to guide community engagement in illegal wildlife trade is lacking. There is a need to reconnect local communities with their original wildlife, a connection which they have lost through the influence of colonialism and neo-colonialism. Virtually all conservation bodies and players believe that local communities are key to the success of rhino conservation but they are not equally walking their talk. Bottom-up community-based initiatives help to curb poaching especially level one poachers. The multifaceted problem of African rhino poaching on the continent is approaching calamitous proportions, with astounding, sobering statistics revealing the sheer extent of the illegal practice today. The interplay of rhino horn demand and supply side is fuelled by poverty, greed, superstition, corruption, social injustice, ruthlessness, and ignorance. Economic transformation benefiting wildlife and communities is key to save the rhinoceros species. Rhino properties should provide direct financial benefits to communities, building capacity and engage community members and private landowners in rhinoceros conservation. Rhino protection should be incentivized, continuously increasing the number of people benefiting from conservation, and decreasing animosity toward wildlife will motivate local people to fully embrace conservation efforts. Conservation efforts should first target level one poachers who are vulnerable and exposed, by developing a comprehensive profitable and lucrative community participation packages in all rhino properties. Conservationists should walk their talk and genuinely work with local communities to build support for rhino conservation through education, awareness, self-sustaining business ventures and employment.

scholarly journals Pensando los procesos de acumulación en sistemas comunales: desarrollo de las fuerzas productivas, innovaciones tecnológicas y Estado. El caso de Colonia Jaime, Argentina/ Thinking the processes of accumulation in communal systems: development of productive forces, technological innovations and state. The case of Colonia Jaime, Argentina

2017 ◽  
pp. 97 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Victoria Suárez ◽  
Raúl Gustavo Paz
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Systems Development ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Community Members ◽  
The Third ◽  
Natural Base ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
Mechanisms Of Development

El reconocimiento de la persistencia y diversidad de formas de comunalismo y su capacidad de adaptación al contexto capitalista resulta clave para problematizar el postulado marxista según el cual, el desarrollo de las fuerzas productivas disolvería la base natural comunitaria. Partiendo del estudio de Colonia Jaime, se abordará un sistema comunal como un espacio donde la articulación de formas capitalistas y no capitalistas, la condición bifacética del trabajo y la construcción de redes de colaboración con el Estado, aparecen como condiciones de posibilidad para generar procesos de acumulación. Cómo la Colonia pudo diseñar, mantener y generar estos mecanismos de desarrollo bajo un contexto modernizante será objetivo de este trabajo. Tres son las reflexiones que surgen del análisis. La primera tiene que ver con la apropiación del entorno liberal y moderno para el desarrollo de las fuerzas productivas sin que esto implique la transformación del sistema comunal; la segunda reconoce la capacidad de un sistema comunal que supo adaptar las propuestas tecnológicas a una visión comunal, donde la lógica capitalista pierde su centralidad y la tercera destaca el rol activo de los comuneros en las tomas de decisión respecto a qué recibir y qué rechazar, a partir de objetivos construidos en forma colectiva.AbstractThe recognition of the persistence and diversity of forms of communalism and its ability to adapt to the capitalist context is key to problematize the Marxist postulate that the development of productive forces disband Community natural base. Based on the study of Colonia Jaime, a communal system will be addressed as a space where the articulation of capitalist forms and not capitalists, the bifacetical condition of work and building networks of collaboration with the state, appear as conditions of possibility for generating accumulation processes. How could the Colonia Jaime design, maintain and generate these mechanisms of development under a modernizing context will be the principal objective of this work. There are three considerations arising from the analysis. The first is related to the appropriation of the liberal and modern environment for the development of productive forces, without this implying the transformation of the communal system; the second consideration recognizes the capacity of a communal system that knew how to adapt the technological proposals to a communal vision and the third emphasizes the active role of community members in decision-making according to collective objectives.

Stakeholders’ involvement in Corporate Social Responsibility: The Mining Sector in Tanzania

Utafiti ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 109-130
Author(s):  
Shukrani Kassian Mbirigenda
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Central Pillar ◽  
Corporate Social

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects that do not involve communities where they are based stand a greater chance of either failing from reaching their objectives or being rejected by their intended beneficiaries. Community involvement is not just about being nice; it is a central pillar in the business of CSR. Some external secondary stakeholders in Tanzania are rejecting or ignoring local CSR projects affecting them, which raises a question of whether they have been consulted at all in the relevant decision making. Using the experience of communities in the area of the Geita Gold Mine (GGM) in Tanzania and stakeholder theory, this qualitative study analyses the relationship between CSR and involvement of non-consumer stakeholders in decision making processes and their outcomes. The study used a combination of questionnaires, interviews with key informants, and focus groups to obtain information, opinions and perceptions of company administrators, business people, government actors and local community members so as to fill analytical gap between claims on CSR success stories made by companies and the experience of people on the ground. The study found out that key leaders in the local communities who were neglected in the CSR decision making process were led to view the projects as redundant or irrelevant. The study recommends that for an autonomous, robust and sustainable CSR project, a company needs to be inclusive, by integrating local key representatives at every stage of the CSR project’s life. In addition, the study recommends that for CSR projects to be genuinely appreciated, and to meet the goals it sets with communities as the beneficiaries of transformation, the CSR projects need to be monitored carefully and audited regularly.

scholarly journals Partisipasi Masyarakat Lokal Dalam Pengembangan Pariwisata Di Desa Jatiluwih, Kabupaten Tabanan, Bali

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
I Gusti Agung Fajar Wisnu Wardana ◽  
I Made Adikampana
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Tourist Village ◽  
The Right ◽  
Participation Theory

      Tourism development should involve the local community as one of strakeholders in its management. In the management of tourist villages, local community should be active in tourism activities to gain the benefits . Therefore local communities also have the right to be able to earn the economic benefits equitably. This study aims to determine the participation of local communities in the management of tourism activites in the Jatiluwih Village, Bali. This research is important because local community participation in tourist village can determine sustainable development       The research methodology used in this study is a qualitative research, with observation, semi-structured interviews, and documentation as well as using the concept of a tourism village and community participation theory to analyze the problems in the field.       The result shows that decision-making in local community participation is still lacking. They have chance to listened or hearded but their opinion not necesseraliy considered.  Benefits received by the local community from tourism activities are the community has begun to get the right share from the tourism  development of their village.   Keywords : Community  Participation, Tourism Development,JatiluwihVillage

Community Participation and Quality of Life in Nature-Based Tourism: Exploring The Antecedents and Moderators

2020 ◽  
pp. 109634802098009
Author(s):  
Md Borak Ali ◽  
Mohammed Quaddus ◽  
Fazlul K. Rabbanee ◽  
Tekle Shanka
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Political Instability ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Community Members ◽  
The People

This study offers a conceptual framework reflecting relationships among nature-based antecedents of community participation in an ecotourism destination en route to achieving quality of life of the local community. The study also examines the moderating role of political instability and government policy in ensuring community participation and attaining quality of life, respectivelyData were collected through a structured survey from 449 local community members of Sundarbans, Bangladesh, which were analysed using SmartPLS-based structural equation modeling. Results revealed that community participation depends on natural attraction and motivation of the people to be involved with ecotourism activities. Such participation is found to influence quality of life of the community people. The results show support for significant moderating effects of political instability and government policy on the relationship between (a) ecotourism motivation and community participation and (b) community participation and quality of life, respectively. The findings offer significant theoretical and practical implications.

scholarly journals Confronting Complex Accountability in Conservation With Communities

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine M. Crosman ◽  
Gerald G. Singh ◽  
Sabine Lang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Community Partnerships ◽  
Community Level ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Local Decision ◽  
Local Involvement ◽  
Local Decision Making ◽  
Conservation Organizations

Increasingly, conservation organizations are conducting conservation activities with local communities. Many conservation organizations now position their work as contributing to sustainable development initiatives, and local involvement in conservation is understood to increase conservation and sustainability success. Aside from communities, however, conservation organizations are accountable to funders and partners, and values and priorities vary across actor type. Mismatched goals combine with power imbalances between conservation actors, and create decision-making conflict throughout conservation processes, from objective setting through implementation and evaluation. As a result, communities may lose local decision-making power or face new negative consequences, trust in organizational/community partnerships may be undermined, and conservation organizations’ reputations (and the reputation of the sector as whole) may suffer. In this commentary we point out processes and conditions that can lead conservation organizations to privilege accountability to funders and others over accountability to communities, thereby undermining community-level success. We follow with suggestions for how funders, conservation organizations and others may improve community engagement and community-level outcomes, and improve their reputations in general and in their work with communities, by actively leveraging accountability to the community and involving local community members in decision-making.

scholarly journals Distributed leadership in the construction of a new higher education campus and community

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 224-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Vuori
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distributed Leadership ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Education Community ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study examines a teaching-oriented higher education community which undertook a major programme of change when planning a new campus and redesigning its pedagogics. This is a single case qualitative study based on in-depth interviews of community members and field observations and using activity theory as an analytical framework. It is suggested that instead of merely being a rhetorical tool of senior management, distributed leadership can be practised in higher education communities for the benefit of the learners, the teaching and administrative staff and the local community. The study emphasises the importance of the joint sense making of the pedagogical approach in the creation of distributed leadership practices in a teaching-oriented higher education community. It also highlights how higher education students may take an active role in a work system characterised by distributed leadership, and how the infrastructure of a campus building may support distributed leadership.

Barriers and triggers to community participation across different stages of conservation management

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
EMILIO RODRÍGUEZ-IZQUIERDO ◽  
MICHAEL C. GAVIN ◽  
MIGUEL O. MACEDO-BRAVO
Keyword(s):  
Community Participation ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Community Skills ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Effective Community ◽  
Management Approaches

SUMMARYLocal community involvement in natural resource management can be critical to conservation success. Community participation in conservation efforts varies widely, reflecting a continuum from protectionist conservation mechanisms to programmes driven by local communities. Conservation is not one event, but an iterative process with many steps (planning, implementation, monitoring) each with an opportunity for different levels of participation. Barriers and triggers to more community involvement in management of the Cordillera Azul National Park (Peru) were examined. Eleven conservation officials and 73 community members provided information on levels of participation achieved at three management stages: Park establishment, management plan development, and management implementation. Park establishment was not a participatory process, owing to the expediency of the conservation agenda and a narrow window of political opportunity. Community involvement increased during the management plan development and its implementation, with communities eager to participate and a public-private partnership introducing new participatory management tools. However, a perceived lack of capacity in terms of community skills, funding availability, time and sufficient conservation personnel, and the definitions of participation used by different stakeholders, limited community involvement in decision-making processes. If conservation is to achieve more effective community involvement, long-term adaptive co-management approaches are needed that clearly define local participation, build capacity of all stakeholders and monitor levels of participation across all stages of project management.

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