Participation, community participation

Participation is an act or process whereby people left out from the information flow or the operation of society may directly join social, communal, political and cultural life, may be involved in community activities for the common good, and may interfere with decisions affecting them, and may thus improve the mechanisms of the institutions (community customs, NGOs, public service institutions), which have been established for them.

 
This article based on the following document: Community development methodological guide