Joint Research (Type IV）
Comparative Research on People's Participation in Local Governance: Thailand,
The Philippines and Indonesia
Project Leader: NAGAI, Fumio, Graduate School of Law, Osaka City University
（Term：2009 - 2010）
- Joint Seminars in 2009 - 2010 Fiscal Year
- Outline of Joint Research
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Through research on people’s participation in local governance in Thailand,
the Philippines and Indonesia, this research expects to identify several
patterns which possibly affect the performance of local government. This
will be conducted through a large-scale local government survey research
in 3 countries which is planned for FY2011.
In regards to Thailand, survey data conducted in FY2006 is already available.
So, in this research project, that data will be analyzed and processed
in research meetings.
On the other hand, with regards to the Philippines and Indonesia, field
research will be conducted to identify important variables which affect
local governance. After field research, several meetings will be held to
analyze the research results.
- Purpose of Joint Research
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The purpose of this research is to find out how people’s participation
in local governance affects its quality and, by doing so, identify its
factors, patterns and constraints in 3 decentralizing countries, namely
Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia. In this research, in-depth interview
research shall be done in several localities to find out what factors on
the part of local residents possibly determine the quality of local governance.
Past research was roughly divided into 2 types. The first research type
mainly focused on the legal aspects of local government and local finance.
This type was interested in formal institutions, such as central-local
relationships, the internal management of local government and so forth.
The second type was mainly interested in more practical issues, such as
the role of NGO/NPO in poverty alleviation, people’s participation in local
community, and so forth. The latter type of research is also often associated
with local government.
While this research is trying to connect these 2 types of research in one
sense, it intends to be the preparation for the above-mentioned large-scale
local government survey research, which will be conducted in FY 2011. This
is due to the hypothesis that the performance of local government is determined
by the quality of people’s participation.
With survey research, it is important to identify several patterns of people’s
participation. In this research, we hope to identify several typical patterns
and variables in Indonesia and the Philippines. With regards to Thailand,
un-utilized survey data conducted in FY 2006 shall be processed and analyzed,
such as local development plan initiatives, the degree of access of local
residents to cope with environmental issues, and so forth.
- Outline of Result
- Kagoya visited Indonesia from July 20 to 25, 2010 and conducted field research
in some local governments and local NGOs in Yogyakarta and Central Java.
(Nagai also joined in this field research.) Results were presented to the
internal meeting on August 5, 2010. Nagai also visited Thailand from September
11 to 21, 2010 and conducted field research on the residential groups and
local NGOs in Bangkok, Lampang and Nakhon Sri Thammarat. Results were presented
to an internal meeting on February 26, 2011. Kagoya and Nagai had analyzed
the capability of local governments and assess frequency by residential
groups in Thailand by using SPSS on August 5, 2010 and the result will
be soon published as co-article in English from Dutch publisher. On February
26 and March 4, we had exchanged research findings during past 2 years
and consulted on the presentation on March 25 in Kyoto.
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