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Participation Doesn
Participation Doesn
It takes a
supportive environment in which to nurture people's aspirations and
skills for empowerment to ultimately occur. Some means of achieving
this are:
1. Level of participation
3. Control
7. Partnership
8. Commitment
Commitment is the other side of apathy: committed people want to
achieve something, apathetic don't. But what leads to commitment?
Not telling people "You ought to care," inviting them to public meetings
or bombarding them with glossy leaflets. People care about what they
are interested in, and become committed when they feel they can
achieve something. Hard selling won't achieve that. If people are
apathetic about your proposals, it may simply be that they don't share
your interests or concerns.
9. Ownership of ideas