POPULAR PARTICIPATION -BY @JENNY281|10% reward goes the community account

Good evening to you all in this community. I am @jenny 281 and also am very excited to be among you all today.

One of the vital features for any chain line or democracy to grow needs participation and for its to achieve its perfect goals ,there most be an involvement in the society and steemit family.

WHAT IS PARTICIPATION.
Participation refers to the process by which members of the society get involved in the matters of the public ,politics and steemit chain.

WHAT IS POPULAR PARTICIPATION
Popular participation can be defined as the active involvement of people in the making and implementation of decision at all level also in all form of political and social-economic activities.

It means that,the mass of the population and the steem family are involved in the choice,execution and evaluation of programmes and project designed to bring about improvement in the steemt chain and also in the quality of life of the community.

Participation in steemit take various forms .The more ,the steemit family members keeps being active in the platform by contributing tangible ideas to the betterment of the chain line and also not standing at the wall fence ,its makes the chain line to grow from one process to another stage.

Also this process involves indirect engagement where by family members gets connected through links and group.

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Participation in politics also takes its own forms .Voting is the most and broadly based ways that people can participate in politics.

It can be direct or indirect engagement,that is join a political party and contribute to its process.

If a credible individual is running for a public office,you may also volunteer to help in canvassing door to door,attending public events etc.

Participation can equally take its form of attending political activities and even such as rallies,fund raising for political purposes and campaigns. Election is fast approaching we all should come out to participate in electoral process in order to choose the right leader for our nation.

We can never be tired of participating ,someday our votes will counts .Power belong to the people and for we to get this power we all must get involve in one accord to achieve our goals, if not we will never get it right .

One can participate by joining groups that try to influence government .This may include labour unions,human right groups also non governmental organisation that support public benefits.

If we put apathy in front ,we should be ready to face the siege coming and for we not to face the this plight ,we should all come out to vote.

ELEMENTS OF PARTICIPATION
The basic elements of participation are

• Organisation: popular participation in decision making can be best be achieved within a socio-political environment that invoves people to freely organise themselves into actives groups for the benefit of what they perceive to be their fundamental interest. In so doing people needs to plan to succeed and for to hits its demand ,there must be proper organisation for its to accomplish its task.

*Increased access. Participation enable everyone to be able to contact officials in government,with the help of accessibility government will be able to know the demand of the people .

*Rule of law. participation will be active if there is rule of law which equity. Our society today does not practice raw law because we don't have independent judiciary. If the judicial system can stand on their own and execute the right judgement ,the masses and public will participate till their last strength to get what is right to be done .

BENEFITS OF POPULAR PARTICIPATION
The following are benefits of popular participation

*participation improves understanding of development issues that sustainable,both within and between interest groups.

*participation leads to having many committed individuals who are constantly communicating with themselves and also with other institutions e g government agencies

*participation makes government and platforms more responsive and accountable.

WHY PEOPLE DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN POLITICS

*To participate in politics you will have to pay a price. This is because participation involves passion and making of sacrifice and most people will not want to go in in such commitment

*participation at times involves the use of resources eg like transport meeting venue and equipment to reach out the audience .Some people do have these resources also when some have ,they are not willing to give them up for free. They intend to make profit out of it.

• political violence may discourage people from participating in politics .politics must be made peacefully for citizen to participate . It involves the process of decision making .But some politicians take to violence because they to win by all means. We must not allow people to perpetrate evil in the name of politics.

In conclusion
For every sector or steemit chain line to achieve its goals needs 80% participation .Every citizens or members should either be part of those who stand for election or steemit chain line to achieve its actual aim. It is when people are active in steemit chain line or politics that when we can call it a true participation.