Participation And Rights

After all the challenge is to bring everyone on board. It must also be recognized that cultural norms might provide obstacles to participation:

o How to involve women when custom precludes them from participating in meetings.

o How to give voice to children when they are supposed to be seen but not heard.

o How to involve everyone when custom dictates that only the village head speaks.

o How to enable the participation of minorities not used to speaking out.

By introducing the concept of rights and by exploring the way that the claim holders interact with duty bearers we can accustom the stakeholders to expect that their rights may be realized.