The Realities and Barriers of Community Participation in Rural Community Development Projects

This paper reports on the barriers and realities confronting community participation in community development. The paper provides possible suggestions on how inclusive participation may aid the sustainability of community development projects. Community participation refers to the involvement of in...

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Main Author: PERCY DIPELA
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Language:English
Published: Universitas Nahdlatul Ulama Surabaya, Lembaga Penelitian dan Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat 2024-12-01
Series:Community Development Journal
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Online Access:https://journal2.unusa.ac.id/index.php/CDJ/article/view/6670
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description This paper reports on the barriers and realities confronting community participation in community development. The paper provides possible suggestions on how inclusive participation may aid the sustainability of community development projects. Community participation refers to the involvement of individuals or groups in activities, initiatives, or decision-making processes that affect their community. It is about engaging with others to contribute ideas, resources, and efforts towards common goals and improvements within a community. This paper adopted a focused mapping review synthesis to gather the critical tenets of community participation. The author has demonstrated in this paper that community participation is mainly used as a procedural issue without really using it to canvas the views of rural community people. Mainly, it is applied as a “tick a box” exercise in which authorities do not use it to empower the community members nor adopt their views for the purpose of decision-making. Moreover, this paper demonstrates that community participation is more effective and has the potential to result in empowerment when the primacy is on training and building the capacity of beneficiaries. The author argues that community participation that is not inclusive and does not link the views of beneficiaries to decision-making is likely to result in programs that do not address the needs of beneficiaries.
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spelling doaj-art-526c9371f6574436b30cc095b5ca0dd12025-08-20T03:09:07ZengUniversitas Nahdlatul Ulama Surabaya, Lembaga Penelitian dan Pengabdian kepada MasyarakatCommunity Development Journal2580-52822580-52902024-12-018310.33086/cdj.v8i3.6670The Realities and Barriers of Community Participation in Rural Community Development Projects PERCY DIPELA0a:1:{s:5:"en_US";s:5:"UNISA";} This paper reports on the barriers and realities confronting community participation in community development. The paper provides possible suggestions on how inclusive participation may aid the sustainability of community development projects. Community participation refers to the involvement of individuals or groups in activities, initiatives, or decision-making processes that affect their community. It is about engaging with others to contribute ideas, resources, and efforts towards common goals and improvements within a community. This paper adopted a focused mapping review synthesis to gather the critical tenets of community participation. The author has demonstrated in this paper that community participation is mainly used as a procedural issue without really using it to canvas the views of rural community people. Mainly, it is applied as a “tick a box” exercise in which authorities do not use it to empower the community members nor adopt their views for the purpose of decision-making. Moreover, this paper demonstrates that community participation is more effective and has the potential to result in empowerment when the primacy is on training and building the capacity of beneficiaries. The author argues that community participation that is not inclusive and does not link the views of beneficiaries to decision-making is likely to result in programs that do not address the needs of beneficiaries. https://journal2.unusa.ac.id/index.php/CDJ/article/view/6670Community Participation, Community Projects, Beneficiaries, Community Development
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The Realities and Barriers of Community Participation in Rural Community Development Projects
Community Development Journal
Community Participation, Community Projects, Beneficiaries, Community Development
title The Realities and Barriers of Community Participation in Rural Community Development Projects
title_full The Realities and Barriers of Community Participation in Rural Community Development Projects
title_fullStr The Realities and Barriers of Community Participation in Rural Community Development Projects
title_full_unstemmed The Realities and Barriers of Community Participation in Rural Community Development Projects
title_short The Realities and Barriers of Community Participation in Rural Community Development Projects
title_sort realities and barriers of community participation in rural community development projects
topic Community Participation, Community Projects, Beneficiaries, Community Development
url https://journal2.unusa.ac.id/index.php/CDJ/article/view/6670
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