Participatory development approach and critique with an SA example:

Participatory development helps societies to build their own capacity and self-reliance. It also gets people of the community involved in the development process. This participation is used as an communication model between community members and stakeholders. But like with everything else participatory development has shown some challenges such as limited capacity and inappropriate technologies. In South Africa their is an example of UNESCO's Finding a Voice Project who employs ICT for development initiatives.