2016
DOI: 10.11634/233028791503745
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Enhancing Community Participation for Rural Development in Central Ejagham of Cameroon: Challenges and Prospects

Abstract: Community participation in rural development is no longer a new terminology in the development lexicon of developing countries. The Central Ejagham Community, in response to their development problems and the inability of the government to improve on the situation took a bold step by participating in development programmes in order to add value to their lives and to secure a better future for the community. The aim of this study is to examine the barriers was strategies to overcome them so as to enhance commun… Show more

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“…Almost invariably, international and national development focus in low-income countries is tilted towards the rural areas [1][2][3]. In fact, rurality has been considered synonymous to poor peasantry and underdevelopment, necessitating permanent assistance and rural animation (including livelihood diversification) policies from development or governmental agencies [4,5]. Changes in livelihood strategies are triggered by broader socio-political and economic policies, usually context-specific, evolving from natural-resource-dependent to less-natural-resource-dependent activities, and vice versa [6].…”
Section: Livelihood Diversification and Conservationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Almost invariably, international and national development focus in low-income countries is tilted towards the rural areas [1][2][3]. In fact, rurality has been considered synonymous to poor peasantry and underdevelopment, necessitating permanent assistance and rural animation (including livelihood diversification) policies from development or governmental agencies [4,5]. Changes in livelihood strategies are triggered by broader socio-political and economic policies, usually context-specific, evolving from natural-resource-dependent to less-natural-resource-dependent activities, and vice versa [6].…”
Section: Livelihood Diversification and Conservationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The philosophy of participation is no longer new in the natural resource management and rural development lexicon of most societies [26][27][28][29]. Viewed as a catalyst of social change [30], participation has not only been spread through technology transfer in rural development research, but also by challenging state control in the management of natural resources [19,31].…”
Section: Motivational Drivers Of Participationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Rural development remains a major challenge for developing countries especially in Africa [1,2] as World Bank estimates that 75 percent of the world's poor are living in rural areas practicing farming [3]. Africa that was rated as the second poorest continent in 2003, [4] continues to grapple with development challenges including the adverse effects of population pressure on land, water and other resources, threats to the environment, climate change, and the yawning income disparity between rural and urban areas [5]. Governments and international development agencies increased emphasis on rural and agricultural development to reduce poverty and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), one of which targeted community development actions and initiatives to improve the standard of living.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Central to this paper is the need to analyse rural development stakeholder interactions in complex landscapes such as the Kom Highlands which begs for major development interventions. Rural development interventions, through community initiatives have been recurrent in this landscape [5]. The objective of this article is to suggest a coherent cross-sectoral approach for the sustained reduction of rural poverty in which rural development stakeholders overcome the shortcomings of earlier top-down, non-inclusive approaches and thus reduce the short-term and sector-by-sector approaches.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%