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Health Education Research, Vol. 4, No. 3, 305-319, 1989
© 1989 Oxford University Press

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Conceptualizing and assessing potential for community participation: a planning method

Larry A. Kroutil and Eugenia Eng1

Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center Box 2914, Durham, NC 27710
1Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB no. 7400, Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA

A 14 item checklist was developed to review and score project plans to assess planners' intentions to elicit community participation along five dimensions: WHO is to participate, in WHAT activities, and through which process or HOW, given the PROJECT CHARACTERISTICS, and the conditions in the TASK ENVIRONMENT. This checklist was used by an expert panel of reviewers to review the technical proposal document from a rural water project in Togo, West Africa. Each reviewer separately scored and then met to arrive at a consensus score on the project's intentions to elicit community participation. The methodology used in this study could be used by planners and designers of health projects intending to implement a community participation approach. The checklist instrument could be used as a planning tool to guide the development of project proposals and plans. The expert panel could include community leaders to use the checklist to review planning documents, and thereby build community participation into the development of project proposals. The checklist items themselves could be used to construct important variables and indicators for measuring change in community participation as a project moves from the planning stages, through training and implementation, and ultimately, to evaluation.


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