MODULE 3: LESSON 1

OVERVIEW OF
PARTICIPATORY
DEVELOPMENT
STEPHANIE ALYSSA T. MONTEMAYOR
PhD DA - Student
Background:
• In the 1980s, since the end of the Cold
War, donor countries demanded to seek
strategies capable of garnering support
from the people.
• There was a growing awareness for
protection of human rights,
democratization, economic liberalization
and market-oriented economy.
• There was increasing attention on the
importance of broader people’s
participation.
 Background:
• In December 1989, the OECD’s DAC cited
that sustainable development, concern for
the environment, and participatory
development were the most important
issues in the development aid agenda.
• Stimulating the productive energy of the
people, encouraging broader participation,
equitable sharing of benefits, must
become central elements in development
strategies.
Participatory Development as a Strategy:
• Main objective: set in motion a process of
self-reliant and sustainable growth through
which social justice can be achieved.
• Re-focus from boost in the production of
material goods to fostering and enhancing
people’s capability to have a role in the
society’s development.
• People should be willingly involved in
development activities as agents and
beneficiaries of development.
Four Essential Approaches:
1. Investment in human resources which include
education and training, meeting the needs
for food and health care, effort to eradicate
AIDS and other narcotic problems.
2. Strengthen political systems, government
mechanisms, and legal systems where
democracy and respect for human rights are
secured.
3. Effective use of NGOs and the private sector.
4. Open and competitive market economy
structures to mobilize individual initiative and
dynamic private enterprise.
Participatory Development
• An approach to development designed to
enhance sustainability and self-reliance and
social justice thru improvement in the quality of
people’s participation.
• Focus: Qualitative enhancement of
participation in local societies like groups of
rural communities, and admin devt’l units.
• Attempts to introduce the bottom-up style of
development focusing on qualitative
improvements in local society’s participation.
Sustaining Participation
• To facilitate the long-term process of
participation and its self-reliant sustainability,
the following must be met:
 Raising the awareness of local people
 Forming community groups
 Upgrading requisite resource management
abilities
 Creating norms or internalizing their
mechanisms
 Improving capabilities for external
negotiations
Good Governance
• Manifested if the government attained its target
effectively and efficiently.
• Good governance helps a country achieve
sustainable and self-reliant development and social
justice.
• Orientation of a state: Legitimacy and accountability
of the gov’t, securing of human rights, local
autonomy devolution of power, civilian control of
the military.
• Ideal functioning of gov’t: basic laws and
institutions, administrative competence and
transparency, creation of appropriate market
environment.
Good Governance
• Supports participatory development and
participatory development promotes good
governance in return.
• Provides the government functions needed to
promote participation and creates the
environment in which participatory process
takes place.
THANK YOU!