CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT AND LOCAL GOVERNANCE DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

Citizen engagement can build responsive local governance, usually through gaining increased government attention and responsiveness to issues that might have been previously ignored. The potential of citizen assembly will contribute to concrete development gains, through demands for more responsive local government action. It can strengthen local governance accountability and responsiveness to citizen-led initiatives. Citizen assembly led to other forms of institutionalized practices that in turn strengthen the possibilities of further citizen engagement which citizen has the creation of new institutional mechanisms whereby citizen voice can be expressed to government institutions. Key Words: Citizen engagement, Local Governance, Citizen Engagement, Civic Education, Area Based Administration