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Can the boundaries of community management be extended beyond rural areas? Lessons from Ghana
journal contribution
posted on 2008-11-03, 17:31 authored by Steve R.K. Doe, M. Sohail (Khan)Community management, a central part of community development, has gained wide
acceptance among service intermediaries such as governmental agencies, NGOs and
donor organizations mainly as a result of the failure of the top-down approach to
development. Policy instruments therefore aim at a bottom-up approach in basic service
delivery such as water supply and sanitation. Operationally, the extent to which
community management can be inserted into development strategies has remained
elusive giving rise to instances where it has produced mixed results. Vast documentation
exists, though, on the success of community management in rural settings. Can the
boundaries of community management be extended from rural areas to larger
communities? Case studies from the water sector in Ghana support a paradigm shift for
community development in larger communities? The results and the implications for
community development are discussed.
History
School
- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Research Unit
- Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
Citation
DOE, S.R. and SOHAIL KHAN, M., 2004. Can the boundaries of community management be extended beyond rural areas? Lessons from Ghana. Community Development Journal, 39 (4), pp. 360-371 [doi:10.1093/cdj/bsh032]Publisher
© Oxford University PressPublication date
2004Notes
This article was published in the journal, Community Development Journal [© Oxford University Press] and the definitive version is available at: http://cdj.oxfordjournals.org/ISSN
0010-3802Language
- en