8. Participation As An Essential Ingredient Of Development

The Vienna and Copenhagen Declarations, the Declaration on the Right to Development and many international treaties affirm that participation is a human right and emphasize the necessity of participation to ensure that development is sustainable. For a long time as well, development agencies including the World Bank have taken participation as an essential ingredient to ensure that the impact of development is long-lasting. The question that comes up again and again is what does participation entail.