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Peer reviewedReeves, Dory – Community Development Journal, 1997
The Sheffield (England) City Council used an advisory group approach to solicit citizen participation in community planning. Two important lessons were: ensuring that all target groups are represented and providing training and information to prepare citizen representatives for their consulting role. (SK)
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Citizen Participation, Community Development, Community Planning
Peer reviewedAryeetey, Ellen Bortei-Doku – Community Development Journal, 1998
Despite the newly decentralized local government system in Ghana, communities have been slow to develop broad-based participatory consultative processes for community development. Inflexible bureaucracy also hinders involvement of stakeholders. (SK)
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Community Development, Consultants, Decentralization
Download full textNew York State Legislative Commission on Rural Resources, Albany. – 1985
This document is the last of 10 reports resulting from New York's 1983 First Statewide Symposium on Rural Development and is intended to be used primarily as a resource document for the development of public policy proposals. The 9 preliminary reports generated discussion at 12 public hearings, plus written testimony, and served to catalog rural…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Business, Community Change, Community Characteristics
