User:Nicole Lizbeth/Public participation/Ericklemusss Peer Review

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Public participation is viewed as a tool, intended to inform planning, organising or funding of activities. Public participation may also be used to measure attainable objectives, evaluate impact, and identify lessons for future practice. In Brazil's housing councils, established in the 1990s and 2000s, citizen engagement in policy drafting increased effectiveness and responsiveness of government public service delivery. All modern constitutions and fundamental laws contain and declare the concept and principle of popular sovereignty, which essentially means that the people are the ultimate source of public power or government authority. The concept of popular sovereignty holds simply that in a society organized for political action, the will of the people as a whole is the only right standard of political action. It can be regarded as an important element in the system of the checks and balances, and representative democracy. Therefore, the people are implicitly entitled even to directly participate in the process of public policy and law making. One example for the impact of public participation includes In Brazil's housing councils, established in the 1990s and 2000s, where citizen engagement in policy drafting increased effectiveness and responsiveness of government public service delivery.

Comments/Reasoning: The sentence added in this paragraph feels a bit out of place, which is why I moved it to the end as an example.

Add this "Accountability and transparency"
'''Many community organizations that seek to increase public participation are dominated by more affluent citizens with the luxury and the privilege and the time to participate **cite**. .... It is well documented that it is difficult for low-income citizens face difficulties to organize organizing themselves and engage engaging in public issues; yet public participation through community organizations can foster greater involvement of all social groups.'''

Community organizations with solid stronger links to municipal governments, like the League of Women Voters, work to present the demands and needs of citizens.

The organization has been able to yield the power of the individuals within and around the organization to mobilize citizens and advocate for public issues such as affordable housing.

Attention to the citizens' voices through social solidarity and collectiveness of partnerships strive s to establish policies that reflect the city's needs.

Comments/Reasoning: I added a clarifying portion to the first sentence and deleted "luxury and the" since this is just teetering the line over Wiki's neutrality policy. I also deleted the portion that said cite, but I assume you will get back to that. I restructured the second sentence to make it a bit more clear. I also think that there should be some more citations for the last few sentences!