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When local participation helps

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  • John D. Montgomery

    (Professor of Public Administration at Harvard University)

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Programs for the delivery of public goods and services are often more effective if the public participates in their planning and execution. Not all such activities benefit from public participation, however. Activities whose effectiveness most benefits from such participation are those whose local effects are variable; those that have to be made frequently but not routinely; those that require quick responses from the public; and those whose impact calls for major changes in the behavior of the public. Experience with irrigation projects in developing countries is consistent with this “sensitivity hypothesis,” but the hypothesis is probably applicable to the management of other goods and services such as social welfare, education, public health, and transportation.

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  • John D. Montgomery, 1983. "When local participation helps," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 3(1), pages 90-105.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jpamgt:v:3:y:1983:i:1:p:90-105
    DOI: 10.2307/3324007
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    1. Sithanantham, S. & Seif, A. A. & Ssennyonga, S. J. & Matoka, C. & Mutero, C., 2002. "Integrated pest management (IPM) issues in irrigated agriculture: Current initiatives and future needs to promote IPM adoption by smallholder farmers in Eastern Africa," IWMI Books, Reports H030842, International Water Management Institute.
    2. White, Robert & Eicher, Carl K., 1999. "Ngo'S And The African Farmer: A Skeptical Perspective," Staff Paper Series 11532, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics.
    3. Pretty, Jules N., 1995. "Participatory learning for sustainable agriculture," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 23(8), pages 1247-1263, August.

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