Mekonnen, Zenebe
(2007)
Roles of NGOs in Community Empowerment
for Natural Resource Conservation: A case
study of two NGOs in North Wollo, Ethiopia.
Research and Perspectives on Development Practice, 2.
ISSN 2009-6976
Abstract
This paper is a summary of a thesis submitted to the Kimmage
Development Studies Centre, Dublin, in partial fulilment of the
requirements for the degree of MA in Development Studies. The paper
focuses on the work of two NGOs working in northern Ethiopia. It
analyses the natural resource management programme components
of these NGOs and their efforts at community empowerment, with
particular focus on the issues of community participation, training/
awareness creation and institutional formation, together with challenges
and the available opportunities. The thesis argues that the effective
engagement of an NGO in community empowerment processes entails
organisational orientation in terms of its vision, principles, goals,
strategies and its activity components.
The research utilised a qualitative approach using a purposive sampling
method. It was found that in terms of their programme components,
both organisations have yet to position themselves in a way that helps
them address the existing power relations to facilitate the community
empowerment process. Despite the NGOs’ efforts in awareness creation
and community institutional formation, the community is still dependent
on external agents to mobilise them for self-development activities.
The thesis recommends that there is a need for raising the level of
consciousness of the community, and the institutions established at the
community level have to be in the form of an association fully controlled
by the community, and not merely an instrument for control.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Additional Information: |
Research and
Perspectives on Development Practice Series Paper No. 2 |
| Keywords: |
NGOs; Community Empowerment; Natural Resource Conservation; North Wollo; Ethiopia; Kimmage Development Studies Centre; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > International Development |
| Item ID: |
10015 |
| Depositing User: |
IR Editor
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| Date Deposited: |
27 Sep 2018 14:21 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Research and Perspectives on Development Practice |
| Publisher: |
Kimmage Development Studies Centre |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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