Participatory Economic Development – Nanda Nepali

Participation has established itself as a significant approach to project implementation, policy-making and governance in developing and developed country alike. Recently, however, it has become fashionable to dismiss participation as more rhetoric than substance, and subject to manipulation by development agencies and social change agents intent simply on pursuing their own agendas over the community consensus. This book highlights meaningful participation of marginalized groups overcharging slogan of SDGs ‘no one leave behind’ useful in the context of Nepal.
The book embeds participation within contemporary advances in development theory and propose theoretical and practical ways forward for relocating participation as a meaningfully transformative approach. Scholars and practitioners of participatory development alike, and from a diversity of disciplines and community and development agencies, will find the book a theoretically illuminating and practically useful source of ideas about how participation of the left-behind and vulnerable people can achieve with sustainable outcomes.