Abstract
The discourse on "Community engagement and commitment†is a critical subject that requires the interest of individuals within communities to fully participate in activities that address community needs. A meaningful citizen engagement reaches out beyond physical inclusion to incorporate the generation of thoughts and deliberations. In addition, it includes the commitments to leadership process in decision-making and the involvement of community members in the administrative responsibility. Among the elements that propel individuals to take an interest to participate in local governance need to assume a functioning role in bettering their very own lives, satisfying social or religious commitments feeling a need for a sense of community, and other quantifiable benefits. This study conceptualizes what community engagement, models, and frameworks is about and that can be used as a guide, to inspire communities in meeting various challenges relating to their interest in participation and cooperation. The study does not claim to cover all the accessible and significant human sociology on public cooperation literature. Qualitatively, the study gave an outline of the basic ideas that shed light on community participation, cooperation and commitment to duty and responsibility. As the study adopted a qualitative approach, mostly secondary source was consulted to address the research question. The findings show that the instrumental way to deal with citizens’ concerns, with attention to results and adequacy is considerably more far-reaching than the more transformative method. Furthermore, people ought to review challenges related with gathering politicization of improvement and participatory structures, the absence of responsibility towards organizing community interest, the absence of limit capacity among partners, poor access to data or information, and inability to perceive and work intimately with community-based associations. It was then recommended that the community and different partners take part in the discussions that prompted the last record, as this is required by the South African Municipal Structures Act.
Highlights
The process where a community directly participate in local governance with the commitment of common citizens or community members in the issues of planning, administration, basic leadership of making decisions and the general improvement programs at local or grassroots dimension, has recently turned into an essential part of democratic practice
This study noted that the basic reason for having a community engagement is the "underlying community participation
The process where a community directly participate in local governance with the commitment of community members in the issues of planning, administration, basic leadership of making decisions and the general improvement process at grassroots, which has recently turned into an essential part of democratic practice
Summary
The process where a community directly participate in local governance with the commitment of common citizens or community members in the issues of planning, administration, basic leadership of making decisions and the general improvement programs at local or grassroots dimension, has recently turned into an essential part of democratic practice. It appears that most community support practices in post-Apartheid South Africa are to a great extent observer of legislative issues. The specific idea of community support has been to a great extent decreased to an awkward custom or ritual a vital informative supplement required by the different laws and strategies working at the local levels of government (John, 2006)
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