Building Capacity through Participation
Nauru National Sustainable Development Strategy
Published on 1. December 2008
35 pages
978-92-9257-201-3 (ISBN)
Description
For years, Nauru, a small Pacific island nation (population 10,000), benefited from the considerable wealth generated from its only major natural resource, phosphate. However, when that resource was almost exhausted and national assets held under the Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust had been reduced to relatively minor holdings, the Government of Nauru sought and received assistance from the Asian Development Bank and the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) to prepare a National Sustainable Development Strategy to guide future development in the country. This case study examines innovative efforts to strengthen participatory capacity in Nauru to support development of the new strategy, focusing on the design and implementation of a participatory planning process which engendered wide community engagement and included communications with communities about the choices and trade-offs facing them moving forward.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acronyms
- Foreword
- Introduction
- NSDS Project Scope and Capacity Dimensions
- NSDS Project Context
- NSDS Methodology: Framing Capacity Development
- Building Capacity through Participatory Planning
- Nauru NSDS Process: Enhancing Many Capacities
- Participative Capacity: Participation in Development Planning
- Participatory Process Leadership Capacity: The Champions Group
- Civil Society Capacity: Awakening Community's Role in Society
- Institutional Capacity: Development Policy and Planning
- Operational Planning Capacity: The Public Service
- Participative Democracy Capacity: Constitutional Review Project
- Key Lessons for the Future
- Participatory Process Design and Methodology
- Fostering Participation
- Institutional Support for Participatory Approach
- The Citizen Participation Challenge for Governance
- Institutionalizing Collective Responsibility
- Conclusion
