Social reality of people's participation: some experience of people's participation in a revolving fund for sustainable family farming in a Sri Lanka irrigation settlement
Siriwardena, S.S.A.L.
Landscape and Urban Planning 20(1/3): 123-128
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0169-2046 DOI: 10.1016/0169-2046(91)90101-qDocument Number: 376153
People's participation is not a complicated concept of development. It refers to the ordered reality of human practice, to people's day-to-day encounters and their experiments with the household environment, natural resources, animals or plants in their social laboratories. It is their interactions and strategies in the organization of family life which are the crucial point from which participatory development should start. Policy formulation should not be isolated from the understanding and analysis of the logic of human practice in local arenas. The article draws on field experience in the Mahaweli Irrigation Settlement Scheme of Sri Lanka.
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