Importance of community participation in collective action

Community participation is a technique to move towards social change. Maintaining the status quo is a great challenge against second order change. However, community participation to fight against corruption is tough. Common people need to work together collaboratively in order to create social change in this regard. Trust is the core of community participation. It can build up community networks.


However, people cannot keep on taking part due to failure of tangible actions. Only network can produce and preserve collective action. It can recognize mutuality. Gilchrist (2004) argued for the upholding of formal and informal networking to community development. The powerful collective action can be established through these types of networking. Flexible networks can create durable societies as well. For this reason, we are now working on building up networks among community members for active participation. We have already invited some of the members of the community through e-mail and given them our blog address for creating a space for better engagement.