Does Community Engagement Lead to Effective Decision Making? An Evidence from Karnataka Watershed Development Agency, India
Journal Title: Grassroots Journal of Natural Resources - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue 2
Abstract
Participation has both an intrinsic and instrumental value, and livelihood enhancement is achieved by fostering the effective engagement with the target community. As an implementation agency for the Karnataka Watershed Development Agency in Chitradurga district, MYRADA followed the building block approach. This meant that there was enough engagement with the village community in organising affinity groups involved in credit activities, before wider village level institutions were crafted. In this article, it is examined whether such an engagement lead to effective decision-making with respect to the soil and water conservation treatment undertaken on the farmers’ land. Contrary to the theoretical proposition of the Olson (1965) that smaller the size better is the provisioning of the collective good, present field study found that provisioning by such groups could also lead to a bad outcome.
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G. Ananda Vadivelu
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- DOI https://doi.org/10.33002/nr2581.6853.01024
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