Note_Slum Upgrading and Participation: Lesson from Latin America

Reading note of Slum Upgrading and Participation : Lesson from Latin America.

Defination

Participation is a process in which people, and especially disadvantaged people, influence resource allocation and policy and program formulation and implementation, and are involved at different levels and degrees of intensity in the identification, timing, planning, design, implementation, evaluation, and post-implementation stages of development projects.

Participation Benefit

Effectiveness

1. organized expression of demand

2. access to local knowledge

Sustainability

3. financial sustainability

4. local ownership of project

5. responsibility toward facilities and services

Good governance

6. interact with authorities

7. establishing clear channel for community

8. giving people the opportunity to shape their lives