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Title:Locating community participation in a water supply project: the Galanefhi Water Project (Eritrea)
Authors:Gebremedhin, Solomon HaileISNI
Theron, FrancoisISNI
Year:2007
Periodical:Anthropology Southern Africa
Volume:30
Issue:1
Pages:20-28
Language:English
Geographic term:Eritrea
Subjects:community participation
water supply
Abstract:Using the Galanefhi Water Project in Eritrea as a case study, the authors examine the question of how to select appropriate strategies for spanning the range between strategies which inform participants, to strategies which consult participants, to lastly strategies which empower participants. They argue that Eritrea is undertaking projects based on what the country's Constitution sees as participatory strategies, but that this is a false premise. The lack of authentic and empowering participation in the case study had as result poor harnessing of social capital; poor decentralized decisionmaking procedures; poor local capacity building; and a lack of conscientization amongst the project beneficiaries. The authors conclude with recommendations to improve the situation. Bibliogr., note, sum. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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