Advantages and disadvantages of community participation

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Community Participation

Introduction

It is the communal involvement of local people in order to assess their needs and organize strategies to meet those needs. The word has elevated to the must-have list of institutions, government, and universities. It is a crucial element to resolve health care issues of a society and is comprised of degree of participation ranging from minimal to the absolute ownership. Australia is a country where population is mainly composed of immigrants and refugees; this gathering of people from diverse backgrounds, cultures, religious and ethnic groups' makes Australian culture heterogeneous.

On the other hand, this societal composition is also raising big challenges and issues for the legislative departments and the government agencies. The indigenous community of Australia has been deprived of their basic rights that are enjoyed by their fellow citizens. For the sake of telling, Australia warm welcomes the communities even from the less privileged parts of the world; however, the policy makers are required to say much about what is happening insight.

This essay is aimed at addressing the importance of community participation and its impact on Australia. It highlights the advantages and disadvantages of the community participation and highlights the challenges faced by the indigenous groups in the wider Australian society. An effort has been made to highlight the factors of discrimination that are leading to inadequate community contribution. That has been the underlying sources of troubling the cultural adjustments for many ethnic groups in the Australian society.

Discussion

Community participation is a phrase that can be commonly used in the development, health and education sectors; accompanied with the terms of good governance, ownership, rights and accountability. Members of a community are a rich source of knowledge about their community; they are the source of energy and are committed to their community. If utilized properly, they can be the natural source of accumulating human capital that is the foremost requirement of today's advancing societies.

The genuine participation made by the community members, including youth, is the key because they control the projects at the same time that professional partners build the capacity of the community to make informed decisions. The research studies indicate that the community participations are dominated by the small group of people. They have suggested ways in which formal participation arrangements could be more effectively engaged in with informal social networks on a routine basis.

Even after decades of so called development in different parts of the world, the persistence of poverty and the occurrence of changes in the political, social and cultural life are making education once again a crucial issue that requires to be paid deemed importance. The recent transformation of the macro-political landscape, the increasing threat of narrow nationalism and fundamentalism and the rising issues of global warming- all these challenges are asking for the effective development of human resource and a well maintained balance for the better quality of education.

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