3. Community ParticipationCommunity

3. Community Participation
Community participation is defined as a process enabling people to be involved in the planning and
implementation of development with collaborative thinking and decision-making on their problems. It involves the
use of mutually creative generation, knowledge, and skill, alongside appropriate guiders as well as monitoring the
organization and related staff’s implementation, thus resulting in an increasing level of living and rehabilitating
community problems. This concept is reached by participation procedures including public information, public
consultation, public meeting and decision making. The four - stage community participation process can be
described from Rattanavaraha & Jommonkwao, 2012 as;