Understanding The Negative Impacts Of Rigid Instituional Framework On Community Development Projects A Case From Bangladesh 2nd Edition Mrs Emerald Upoma Baidya by Mrs. Emerald Upoma Baidya instant download after payment.

Most The goal of this article is to analyse the participatory process of
development projects. Drawing upon my professional experience in a project
called Pre-Poor Slum Intergration Project (PPSIP) which was based in
Comilla, Bangladesh - I argue that development projects dominated by rigid
power structures inside and in-between institutions inhibits community
participation that reflects the actual need of the beneficiary group; and as
happened in this case, produce results that do not serve the people in real
need but rather only serve the purpose of the institutions that manage the
project, more so the institutions having higher degrees of power. In this article
I try to combine insights gained from our field experience and literature study
on post-politics and power in planning in order to sketch out the stakeholder
institutions' interest, capacity and enrolment in order to understand how
socio-relational dynamics as opposed to technical procedures shaped the
project. In this project participation from the community was ritualisticserving only a face-value, the operational team on the field were devoid of
power to take important decisions or challenge the institutional framework
that they were part of, and at the same time institutions with higher degrees of
decision making power were not sufficiently involved with the realities of the
field. I conclude that in order to make participatory process really work,
involved institutions should not limit their efforts in repetitive consensus
building exercises based on pre-conceived ideas and traditional methods of
community development.
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN AFFAIRS (2019), 3(2), 156-165.
Doi:10.25034/ijcua.2018.4712