A Case Study of the Practice and Implementation of Community Empowerment Policies in Indigenous Tribes─Lunpi,Yilan.
Date Issued
2006
Date
2006
Author(s)
Cheng, Kai-Fang
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
“Community Empowerment” was proposed formally by the Council for Cultural Affairs in 1994. During the period from 1994 to the present, many ministries have gathered to display more and more projects, which impelled the
communities to show their autonomy to diagnose and develop themselves through selection and competition. However, the criticism and skepticism of the resources integration, the policies and mechanism, and the manpower sustainability gradually emerged, especially in the indigenous areas where people have been confronted living pressures and much restriction for a long time. While the tribes were encouraged to utilize their surrounding natural resources and ethnic cultures to develop the ecology and culture industries by the way of “Community Empowerment”, their difficulties in implementation have seldom been seriously dealt with.
Lunpi tribe in Datong township, Yilan, proposed integral community planning and applied for government funding by numerous projects during these five years. The achievement in development compared to the other tribes in Datong was excellent and the residents seemed full of motivation. The success of Lunpi was due to several factors including the professional knowledge and important information brought by the key persons, the harmony and collaboration in the group, and the autonomy and consciousness the group members possessed. However, the leading of the main group also brought the contradiction inside the tribe. For example, who has the power to make decisions and to interpret the local knowledge?
The contradiction seemed to result from the elite’s control, but in my observation and interpretation, there might be some more reasons. First, because of the disadvantaged situation in the indigenous area, there are only few experts in the tribes. Second, the remote location makes the external assistance even harder to reach. Finally and most importantly, Community Empowerment policies require the communities to demonstrate their abilities in the short time through the competition, causing the necessity of the existence of few decision makers. Thus the development of publicness in the communities is hindered.
The Lunpi case as a paragon, has offered other tribes the experiences of planning, organizing, and funds utilization in the community. In addition, the case study can also push the Community Empowerment policies planners or other community-based project makers to modify the mechanism while offering resources and designing the regulations. Furthermore, the case also reminds us to realize the varieties between different groups inside a community and the diverse meanings about Community Empowerment.
Subjects
社區營造
社區營造政策
生態旅遊
泰雅族
社區組織
社區規劃
自主性
Community empowerment
Community empowerment policies
Eco-tourism
Tayal
Community organization
Community planning
Autonomy
Type
thesis
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