A short presentation on community participation at an exposure visit for students of a leadership development programme. Primarily drawn from my experience at BR Hills synthesised using Susan Rifkin's framework.

1. Leading at the grassroots
A health perspective
Prashanth N S
Member, Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra
Faculty, IPH Bangalore & APU Bangalore

2. Key insights
• Episodes/short-term vs sustained/long-term.
Cf VGKK, SEARCH, SVYM etc
• Trust, sincerity and openness builds
participation
• Negotiated needs, negotiated processes – cf
VGKK’s initial experience with medical model
& similarly other NGO experience with SCA
research/hunting etc

3. Community participation
Well-designed
programme,
Manipulation
Placation,
consultation,
information
Citizen control,
delegation,
partnership
Information
Consultation
Deciding together
Degree of “control”
Degree of participation
Adapted from Rifkin framework & David Wilcox RRA notes

4. Spectrum
• Initiation
• Control – how much? And at what level –
agenda setting or participation in particular
programmes
• Power and purpose
• Mainly: Needs assessment, resource
mobilisation, organisation, management and
leadership

5. Adapted from Rifkin framework

6. Adapted from Rifkin framework