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This chapter depicts how different organisations in the field of international development dealt with the myth of participation. It analyses how the participatory mechanisms were integrated into two programmes for urban development and how Uganda's local administrations dealt with these mechanisms in their everyday activities.
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The Learning-by-Doing Toolkit specified that the following types of data were collected in enumeration exercises: physical shelter characteristics, land tenure arrangements, occupant information, commercial spaces, household income and expenditures, and available services (D9: Learning-by-Doing Approach for Participation (Toolkit), Hand-in-Hand, 2013: 8).
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The question of institutionalisation is discussed further in Section 6.3.
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TAP stands for transparency, accountability and participation, all of which are goals in USMID. In the field of development, these three are often seen as important elements of good governance. A more detailed discussion of TAP follows in Section 4.2.1.
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With “the other one”, B-Ville’s economic planner is referring to TSUPU.
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The World Bank’s project cycle consists of six stages: identification, preparation, appraisal, negotiation/approval, implementation and evaluation. The Project or Programme Appraisal Document is prepared after negotiation and review of the project design and is the document submitted to the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors for approval. In the case of the USMID programme, no changes were made to the Programme Appraisal Document in the approval process and the document was published as the official programme document. It detailed the programme’s rationale and context, described scope, objectives and activities of the programme as well as implementation arrangements, monitoring and evaluation and the results of various risks assessments (World Bank, 2013b, 2019c).
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These figures refer only to the 54 pages of continuous text in the programme document. In the lists of indicators for the results framework and monitoring which begin on p. 55 of the document, the forums are again mentioned several times (World Bank, 2013b).
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USMID’s programme appraisal document does not speak of Municipal Development Forums but rather of Municipal Forums. The abbreviation used is thus MF instead of MDF.
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Unsurprisingly, I was not allowed to participate in the meeting and therefore have to rely on the forum members’ accounts of it.
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Even the Environmental and Social Assessment, which covered issues with land acquisition across three pages and had five pages of suggestions on how to strengthen systems, did not refer to the potential involvement of MDFs here (World Bank, 2012b, 2012c).
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Schindler, E.M. (2021). Responding to the Myth of Participation through Interpretation and Decoupling. In: Structuring People. Sozialwissenschaftliche Zugänge zu Afrika. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-35903-4_4
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