Participatory Communication as a tool in all-inclusive grassroots governance: A study of Selected Community Development Associations (CDAs) in Lagos and Ogun States.

Folayan, Bolu John and Dokunmu, Oluwaseun (2018) Participatory Communication as a tool in all-inclusive grassroots governance: A study of Selected Community Development Associations (CDAs) in Lagos and Ogun States. In: THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE SCHOOL OF PURE & APPLIED SCIENCES & THE SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, 2018, FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC, ILARO.

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Abstract

Communication for development (the sharing of information, ideas, knowledge and meanings to enhance the well-being of a people) takes at least three forms: Top-down (a development catalyst disseminates communication from development agencies to the people); Bottom-up (the people are the agents of development and development agencies only prime the people up) and Cyclical or Participatory (both the people and development agencies are partners and catalysts for development. The researchers, in this study, investigated the programmes and communication techniques of 25 Community Development Associations (CDA) in Lagos and Ogun States of Nigeria for six months. The investigation enabled them draw correlations between the communication paradigms of the CDAs and their development strides. They found that CDAs demonstrated huge potentials to serve as pillars of development and grassroots governance. They also found great potentials for CDAs to generate incomes for their projects but that such potentials would be better harnessed if leaders (or members) of the CDAs had development communication proficiency

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting
Divisions:	Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences
Depositing User:	Miss Ann Orjime
Date Deposited:	30 May 2020 13:31
Last Modified:	30 May 2020 13:31
URI:	http://eprints.federalpolyilaro.edu.ng/id/eprint/214

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