Group processes are a valid means of prioritising needs. Participation processes can be conducted by facilitators without the presence of planners. Making participation processes fun and ensuring that participants enjoy themselves makes the outcomes of the processes valid. The people who are able to make good contributions are willing to play the games of facilitators. The product of a good participative process will be sustainable.
People are willing to give up leisure time for voluntary activities for the community good.
Properly advertising a meeting means that the appropriate people will attend. People want to participate. People can be trained for a long term role in the development. Because a participative process met expectations in one context it will work in another. A proper role for community participation I have tried to portray the problem with many of the assumptions we have of community participation.