Issues of Community Participation in Sustainable Development
Community stakeholders’ participation is crucial for sustainable development around the encompassing economic, social and cultural, and environmental aspects. Australia’s attempt to involve community in the “Landcare” and natural resource management has been unique and helped to build good partnerships between community, government and industry. A workshop will be presented in the context of catchment’s management for natural resources (land& water) in Australia. Presenters share their experience with the Participative Action Management (PAM) model and how its principles applied to catchment’s management in Australia. Workshop participants will be guided through a process to apply the principles in stakeholder participation in achieving the catchment management or other (for instance social) goals. Depending on the interests of the workshop participants, structured small group discussion is facilitated using techniques that achieve appropriate inclusive stakeholder participation. Participants will identify the issues in dealing with power, values, hidden agendas and conflicts that come with stakeholder participation. Based on shared information some learning points will be developed for the facilitators, community leaders and academics involved in action research and capacity building.
Keywords:
Community
Stream:
Cultural Sustainability
Presentation Type:
60 minute Workshop Presentation in English
Paper:
A paper has not yet been submitted.
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Assoc. Prof. Shankariah Chamala
Honorary Reader, School of Natural and Natural Systems Management, The University of Queensland
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Assoc. Professor Shankariah Chamala has been with the University since 1972. He has taught several post graduate courses community development, extension education and management. He has also conducted research into the ways the community and the clients can participate in technology development and its use in natural resource management. He has supervised more 120 postgraduate (Masters and Ph. D.) scholars. He was commissioned to write three books on Landcare. Based on his experiences in teaching and research he has developed a generic Participative Action Management (PAM) model to achieve stakeholder participation sustainable development. PAM model is used in Lancare program. Five irrigation projects were funded by the Land and Water R&D Corporation and these were required to use PAM model and achieved good results. Subsequently Federal Government funded a project to develop training modules based on PAM model. Eleven learning modules were developed and pre-tested which could increase the capacity of stakeholders in Participation Methodologies in Innovation Management for Sustainable Agriculture. A resource book, Trainer’s Manual and a Participant’s Manuals were developed. He has been a visiting Professor at several Universities in USA, Europe and Brazil and Asia. He has also conducted several training programs in many countries personnel involved in development project funded by AusAid, World Bank etc. Since 2001 he has been the Honorary Reader at the University of Queensland.
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Ken Keith
Lecturer, School of Natural and Natural Systems Management, The University of Queensland
Australia
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Ken Keith is currently with the School of Natural and Rural Systems Management, the University of Queensland, with focus on social research into partnerships for natural resource management as well as teaching a course in Environment and Community. Recent research includes partnership formation with various stakeholder sectors under new regional institutional arrangements and social context analysis to understand processes for whole community participation in natural resource management. Before joining the University in 1997, he was with the Soil Conservation Branch of the Queensland Department of Primary Industries as Principal Extension Officer, involved in collaborative research and development of extension strategies and packages, including early government support for landcare groups in Queensland; and then with the Department of Natural Resources as leader of a community education and extension unit. He is co-author of books on community consultation, participatory processes for landcare and soil ecosystem educational materials.
Ref: S07P0236
