GS211 Study Guide - Final Guide: Overexploitation, Human Development Index, Social Movement
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Build social capital: networks and relaions which bond groups together, fosters change/development. Appraisals: insider knowledge about needs, environments, resources. Set to develop agendas to involve communiies: not systemaically achieved because donors sill set main orientaions, local people don"t oten have real power and are used for labour. Reduce distance between people and government to more closely observe government. Ciizens can create collecive acion which can impact locally elected oicials. Rise of ngos: means of people"s paricipaion at all levels not easy, categorized according to locaion, level of operaion, orientaion, and ownership, likely to succeed because: History: communiies to stop: demand: more ciizen relying on government for development paricipaion, supply: governments supplying. Comes from the fact that paricipaion doesn"t entail changing exising power relaions: people aren"t put in charge, they just get an opinion. Also, many ngos rely on government aid money = have to comply with donor prioriies (aka donor reliance )
