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G. S. PAPER II – GOVERNANCE, SOCIAL JUSTICE
Topic: (9) Development processes and the development industry- the role of NGOs, SHGs, various groups and associations, donors, charities and other stakeholders
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Q1. Why have ‘participation’ and ‘empowerment’ gained wide currency in recent development literature? Decades of development efforts have provoked a feeling of disenchantment with the conventional growth-oriented strategy of development not producing the desired trickle-down effect The failures sensitized the planners and administrators to the need for drawing on the indigenous knowledge system of the local people Unless people themselves participate, the programmes administrated by external agencies remain exogenous to the rural community thereby affecting results A people-centred vision is being advanced by citizen’s organisations working to create an alternative world order based on economic justice, environmental stability and political inclusiveness As the Human Development Report (UNDP 1993) commented: “People’s participation is becoming the central issue of our times” Q2. So, is people participation a recent discovery? ‘People’ as real actors in history have been brought forward by the ‘Subaltern’ school. Peasant resistances were subtle and effective peoples’ actions against oppression. People do act, it is for us to appreciate it and mobilise it for participatory people-centric movements. People as development actors emerged long ago in the vision and action of Tagore at Shantiniketan and Gandhi at Wardha. Tagore experimented with people centred rural development in the villages for
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G. S. PAPER II – GOVERNANCE, SOCIAL JUSTICE
Topic: (9) Development processes and the development industry- the role of NGOs, SHGs, various groups and associations, donors, charities and other stakeholders
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Q1. Why have ‘participation’ and ‘empowerment’ gained wide currency in recent development literature? Decades of development efforts have provoked a feeling of disenchantment with the conventional growth-oriented strategy of development not producing the desired trickle-down effect The failures sensitized the planners and administrators to the need for drawing on the indigenous knowledge system of the local people Unless people themselves participate, the programmes administrated by external agencies remain exogenous to the rural community thereby affecting results A people-centred vision is being advanced by citizen’s organisations working to create an alternative world order based on economic justice, environmental stability and political inclusiveness As the Human Development Report (UNDP 1993) commented: “People’s participation is becoming the central issue of our times” Q2. So, is people participation a recent discovery? ‘People’ as real actors in history have been brought forward by the ‘Subaltern’ school. Peasant resistances were subtle and effective peoples’ actions against oppression. People do act, it is for us to appreciate it and mobilise it for participatory people-centric movements. People as development actors emerged long ago in the vision and action of Tagore at Shantiniketan and Gandhi at Wardha. Tagore experimented with people centred rural development in the villages for
References: • • • Mohit Bhattacharya- Social Theory and Development Administration ARC-2 Report 9- Social Capital Yojana Nov, 2011 issue on NGOs Copyright © by Vision IAS All rights are reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of Vision IAS 13 www.visionias.in ©Vision IAS