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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on June 6, 2008
Community Development Journal 2008 43(3):263-268; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsn012
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This article appears in the following Community Development Journal issue: Special Issue: Participatory Approaches in Community Development: Transitions and Transformations [View the issue table of contents]

Editorial

Editorial

Peter Taylor and Marjorie Mayo

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For decades, participatory approaches have become associated increasingly with community development, to the extent where they have been afforded a central position. In communities in many parts of the world, participation has been seen both as a means to achieving community development processes that are dynamic, inclusive and socially just, and also as an end in itself, whereby all community members, including poor and marginalized people, should take part in, and indeed drive, the decision-making processes that shape their lives. From grassroots projects to voluntary organizations, from governments to large funding agencies, and increasingly within the corporate sector, for example in relation to housing and water, participation has been embraced as a way to build greater voice, accountability and trust . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   What does participation have to offer to community development?
 

   Looking forward
 

   This special edition on participatory approaches in community development
 

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