1st Edition

Development Sustainability Through Community Participation Mixed Results from the Philippine Health Sector

By Joaquin L. Gonzalez Copyright 1998
    201 Pages
    by Routledge

    202 Pages
    by Routledge

    Published in 1998, this is a very timely book, especially with the current global concern for sustaining socio-economic development projects through increased civil society participation. The author warns development practitioners and scholars to be careful about over prescribing community participation as a panacea to achieving project sustainability.

    1. Operationalizing Community Participation and Project Sustainability  2. Does Community Participation Really Matter to Development Sustainability?: Competing Views and Evidences  3. Community Participation, Development Sustainability and the Decentralization of Health Care Delivery in the Philippines  4. The Cases of Four Philippine Health Care Projects.