تقييم المشاركة المجتمعية في التخطيط الاستراتيجي للبلديات الفلسطينية

Community participation is perceived as one of the most important signs of civilization and acivil society. This study helps proving that through evaluating public participation in strategic planning in the Palestinian Municipalities. The major objec¬tive of this study was to pinpoint the drawbacks of this experiment for boosting it up. A questionnaire was filled by 693 people representing all stakehold¬ers. The study concluded that: community participa¬tion was efficient despite its misrepresentation and the absence of satisfactory preparations. A middle level authority was awarded to the public to offer knowledge and advice. The environment of partici¬pation was perceived as a satisfactory one. No signif-icant statistical differences were found in the sample evaluation of this experience referring to sex, age, qualification, group, Number of meetings, and gov¬emorate. But differences were found owing to spe¬cialization. The study recommended the institution¬alization of community participation, establishing a national community engagement centre to boost the .relationship between municipalities and the public.