abstract:Participatory Development seeks to engage local populations in development projects. Participatory development (PD) has taken a variety of forms since it emerged in the 1970s, when it was introduced as an important part of the "basic needs approach" to development.
Cutts, in collaboration with Ashoka Fellow Katherine Lucey, is tackling barriers to better healthcare, including the lack of reliable electricity and unreliable transportation infrastructure, through participatorydevelopment initiatives like the installation of solar systems in rural health care centers and motorcycle ambulance programs.
The principal aim of these policy instruments was to promote development, social empowerment (poverty alleviation) and environmental conservation through participatory or community-based management and exploitation or utilisation of forests and forest resources.