Abstract:
Participatory Development seeks to engage local population in Development Projects.
Participatory Development has taken a variety forms since 1970. It is emerged as an
important part of the ‗basic needs approach‘ to development. The main objectives of the
Participatory Development are seeks to give the poor a part in initiatives designed for their
benefit. We can introduce it, as a Multi-Dimensional development concept of the world.
The main objective of the research was to identify the progress of the Participatory
Development entries in Sri Lanka. The other objectives are studied the participatory
development projects in the world & Sri Lanka and identifying the exhausted reasons to the
participatory Development.
Primary data was collected using direct participation, interviews and observation. Further
secondary data was gathered through literature survey.
Sri Lanka has more experience about participatory development. Integration Rural
Development Project –IRDP, Rural Development Training and Action Research (Change
Agent Program), Janasaviya, Samurdhi, and Divineguma are the most popular project of
them. But we can‘t achieve the main objectives of the participatory development projects. As
the result of that we have to face the inequality of development. There many reasons happen
to this situation. Such as, Unawareness about the concept of the project officers can‘t choose
right beneficiaries for the projects and several other reasons are exhausted to Participatory
Development in Sri Lanka.
