Community Power and Participatory Decision-Making

Although this concept is widely used, attempts to define power are still traditional and controversial, and are out of the ordinary. In defining power, a controversial hypothesis raises two distinguishing features: power as power and power as empowerment. In search of "controversy" on a comprehensive settlement of power, Steven Lukes (2005) observed how we imagine the power that influences thinking and behavior, especially in the social environment. The power perspective may be a personal process used by interviews and focus groups to help participants resolve controversy and discomfort surrounding the concept.

Mhagama (2015) is considering participatory development projects like community radio to use a participatory approach to the decision making process. He emphasized, "Participatory communication allows local communities to freely share or exchange information, to do what they want to do and what they want to do, and reach agreement on how to do it." Taminga (1997) pointed out that in Mhagama (2015), in community broadcasting, the dichotomy of wealthy areas and marginalized areas such as women, indigenous people and the poor were broken. To break politically, economically and socially the monopolies of specific needs, knowledge and power to leave them "

Finger (1994), a bottom-up approach, emphasizes community participation, grassroots movement, and regional decision-making. We believe community participation and grassroots initiatives will promote participatory decision making and regional independence (Panda 2007). With the bottom-up approach, people can have the ability and ability to define their own problems and solve problems through organization and participation. In the 1990's, scholars increasingly referred to microfinance as an effective means of poverty reduction (Rekha 1995; Cerven and Ghazanfar 1999; Pankhurst and Johnston 1999). Oxaal and Baden (1997). Mayoux (2000) and Cheston and Khan (2002) point out the importance of microfinance in empowerment, especially women's empowerment. Microfinance is defined as an effort to improve credit access and provide services to the poor (Shreiner 2001)