Ward Committee systems as an Effective Public Participation Process

Introduction

• Institute for Economic Research on Innovation
• We undertake research that seeks to promote sustainable economic growth, social development and political democracy
• We are centrally concerned with evidence-based policy research
• We believe that academics should not only interpret the world without doing anything to change it
• Background as a development planner and economic geography
• As an academic work more in the area of sustainable local development
• View effective public participation with the lenses of local development and within the context of local development
• Effective public participation should  generate visible outcomes