Recorded by: Phil Bartle, PhD
- Communities have a right to participate in decisions that affect their living and working conditions
- Only participation with decision-making power is sustainable and creative.
- Genuine participation requires community involvement in all phases of city, town and village improvements: planning, implementation, maintenance and monitoring.
- Participation must build on gender equality and include youth and the elderly.
- Capacity development is essential to promote equitable participation between women, men and youth.
- Communities do have a hidden resource for participating in city, town and village development; capacity development can release this resource.
- Communities are prime stakeholders among development actors to identify problems, improve and maintain their settlements.
- Awareness and capacity development can make partnerships among communities, NGOs and municipal authorities more equitable.
- Community development which is planned by external persons and only requires communities' free labour, is unlikely to be accepted by communities at large.
- Planning of participation is one of the most frequently overlooked elements of community development.
- Charity makes communities dependent upon aid.
- Community development is an essential contribution to overall urban management.
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