Leading at the grassrootsA health perspective

Prashanth N SMember, Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra

Faculty, IPH Bangalore & APU Bangalore

Key insights

• Episodes/short-term vs sustained/long-term. Cf VGKK, SEARCH, SVYM etc

• Trust, sincerity and openness builds participation

• Negotiated needs, negotiated processes – cfVGKK’s initial experience with medical model & similarly other NGO experience with SCA research/hunting etc

Community participation

Well-designed programme, Manipulation

Placation, consultation, information

Citizen control, delegation, partnership

Information

Consultation

Deciding together

Degree of “control”

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Adapted from Rifkin framework & David Wilcox RRA notes

Spectrum

• Initiation

• Control – how much? And at what level –agenda setting or participation in particular programmes

• Power and purpose

• Mainly: Needs assessment, resource mobilisation, organisation, management and leadership

Adapted from Rifkin framework

Adapted from Rifkin framework