Transforming Grassroots Associations through Community Governance in Nepal
This paper examines the transforming process of grassroots associations through community governance in Nepal based on primary information. Overall 110 community-based organizations from five Village Development Committees of Dang district Nepal was selected for the unit of analysis. Both quantitative and qualitative techniques were adopted to collect the information within a framework of six different variables. Weightage Average Index (WAI) method was employed to analyze the quantitative data, which further triangulated through qualitative data measures. Findings indicate that the overall outcome (WAI = 0.78) of community governance was highly effective. First, it contributed to replacing the hierarchical power structure within the community. Second, this new notion contributed to putting a community at centre and helped increasing accessibility on service functions. Nevertheless, some social anomalies imposed to block the voices of marginalized communities, because service functions were influenced by the hierarchical power structure. In these groups, the influence of elites endured in many ways. First, they entered as facilitators, supporters, and enablers. Second, they gradually captured the groups, social capital, and the decision-making process. Third, they began to capture the physical assets mainly natural resources, cooperatives funds, and government and donor's fund. Finally, they utilized it for their political benefits, which badly affected the governance and vandalized the social capital. Despite these manipulations, internal and external agencies' contributions played an important role in inducing and sustaining grassroots associations, as they are facilitating to downsize the complex issue of community governance
Year of publication: |
2018
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Authors: | Acharya, Keshav Kumar |
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[2018]: [S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Nepal | Gemeinwesenarbeit | Community work |
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freely available
Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (17 p) |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments June 6, 2018 erstellt |
Other identifiers: | 10.2139/ssrn.3297059 [DOI] |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906937
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