Recent reviews of the research process in developing country settings have endorsed the importance of community-level participation and subsequent individual consent for research, particularly in rural areas where community level decision-making is more prevalent compared to urban areas [ 3, 5, 6, 21].
Similar to current study, Gobeze et al. (2009) have claimed that PFM have brought positive changes on forest ecosystem management while simultaneously increasing community participation, beneficence from the project and capacitating local level decision making.
This restriction precludes changes depending on higher-level decision making.
International institutions reach decisions and issue guidelines that are often precursors to country-level decision making.
Key informants (KI) are persons whose professional or organisational role at the community level allows them to influence community decision making.
Interviewees expressed considerable concern about the degree of industry and community involvement in decision making.
Women now attended village meetings, intervened appropriately and partook in community decision making.
The vigías, many of whom were or have become community leaders, are able to make a transition between volunteer observer and community-level decision maker in times of crisis, and by communicating with each other using the network, communities can coordinate evacuations.
Of specific relevance to this paper, however, is the finding that community projects rely for their effectiveness on a broader commitment expressed through policies and frameworks at the highest level of government decision making.
The local CTC coalition will be responsible for making community-level decisions about the project and developing a social marketing plan.
This administrative and managerial decentralisation of the country's health service provision allowed the communities to participate in health decision making on levels 1, 2 and 3, i.e. at a community and at a health facility level.
