The discourse of governance and development practitioners continues to embrace community participation and community empowerment as an elementary means of building local capacity for poverty reduction, development and change at the local level. This article is a review of the decentralization...

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Con frecuencia las instituciones financieras internacionales y los gobiernos locales se ven implicados en la implantacion de programas de desarrollo. Existe amplia evidencia de que los mejores resultados se obtienen cuando la comunidad se compromete en la operacion de los programas, es decir,...