Beneficiary Participation in Non-Governmental Development Organisations: A Case Study in Vietnam
通过访谈越南一家欧洲非政府发展组织的46名利益相关者，研究了受益者对参与机制的感知，并修正了现有理论，为组织提升受益者参与决策提供了建议。
Beneficiary participation in development projects has been an important topic of debate during the last decades. In the empirical research on the matter beneficiaries themselves are seldom, if ever, asked about their perceptions of participatory mechanisms in place. We present such a (case) study on the Vietnamese local office of a European non-governmental development organisation, also probing into other stakeholders’ perceptions (46 interviews in total). Our observations allow us to refine some aspects of the extant theoretical insights on beneficiary participation and representation, as well as to formulate some recommendations for organisations aiming at increasing beneficiary participation in their decision-making.