Abstract
The present study presents the importance and needs of community
participation in the sustainability of development programmes in
Pakistan. This study by reviewing the existing literature on
participatory development aims to investigate the factors hindering and
promoting community participation in the sustainability of
developmental programmes. The study also finds out the flexibility in
the overall process of participation; financial incentives, material
andnon-material benefits and linkages with the community are the
factors which can promote participation for the sustainability of
developmental programmes. Traditional leaders, external, internal
influences and co-option of participation as a fashion by developmental
organizations are the important factors, which hinders community
participation in the viability of developmental programmes. The study
recommends that for ensuring sustainability, people of the target
community has to be meaningfully involved at all the stages of
development interventions i.e. decision making, planning,
implementation and monitoring. In addition, at the policy level the
government should implement laws for pooling the funding from the
donors at the central or provincial level and disbursed to those
organizations which are involving people in the real sense in all the
decisions which affect them.
Sajjad Hussain, Saira Miraj. (2018) Community Participation and Sustainability of Developmental Programmes in Pakistan, Putaj Humanities And Social Science, Volume-25, Issue-2.
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