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Community Development Journal Advance Access published online on June 5, 2007
Community Development Journal, doi:10.1093/cdj/bsm012
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Implementing the Yaounde Declaration: practical issues on participatory processes in community development projects1

Claire Dorsner

Claire Dorsner is the Director, KYAT Ltd (www.kyat.co.uk)

Address for correspondence: email: cdorsner{at}kyat.co.uk

Throughout the 2005 Yaounde Declaration, participation of community stakeholders was emphasized as a key condition for sustainable development in Africa. While acknowledging the complexity of community participation, this article proposes an innovative analytical tool and a methodology that can help practitioners monitor and improve participation in community development projects. The tool and methodology are tested against a field example from Senegal. Notwithstanding, it seems that dealing with the complex mechanisms behind community participation must always be considered a challenge for field practitioners whose initiatives must be accompanied by State and local governments' actions.

1 This article is based on an earlier article (Dorsner, 2004), which has been enriched by discussions and exchanges at the IACD Yaounde Conference in April 2005.


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