I am currently doing research to analyze environmental challenges and opportunities regarding participatory governance in small-scale democracies. Success stories are usually found in larger states. Does anyone have any case studies or articles on citizen participation in SIDS maybe?
Dear Solange, you may have a look on the swiss experience, specially the direct democratic system in Uri and furthermore the Landsgemeinde experiences in Appenzell or in Glaris or the Volksanfragen in Bern, Zurich or Lucerne, . Also , at the lower level (local communities), there ias a lot of partipatory governance expériences
A good question for Pacific SIDS in which isolated island communities must empower themselves for a number of reasons. For this they need to start with a bottom-up approach of capacity building and mapping. Suggest following from my own work in Fiji
Laverack, G. (2007) Building the capacity of Fijian communities to improve health outcomes. Journal of Clinical Health and Community Medicine for the Pacific. Vol. 14 (2): 95-100.
Laverack, G. (2003) “Building capable communities: Experiences in a rural Fijian context”. Health Promotion International 18 (2) 99-106.
Dear Solange
You may like to study the model of participatory governance from CostaRica in Central American region. I guess in all parameters of UNDP on sustainability , Human Development and environmental governance, it has outsmarted many of the big democracies.Their Payment for Environmental Services Programme (PESP) is worth replicating as a public policy on environmental governance based on people's participation.
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