Development of Local Institutions Towards on Participation and Communication Model in the United Kingdom

Abstract

This research aims is to describe the stakeholder involvement and elaborate the communicationmodels that have been used in this project. The main issue are the institutional participationand communication models towards the community project. There are several issues todeal with the sustainable local institution. First of all, a legal mechanism that can establish ruleand law enforcement. Secondly, capacity building that makes the local community can build anequal relationship with other stakeholders such as the local government and buyers. Thirdly isthe institutional transparency that supports the information-equality system amongst stakeholdersin the community. It can be showed by the stakeholders' communication model. The last one isflexibility and adaptive on cooperative partnership. Using the Qualitative method as the mainumbrella of this research, and the research use several methods to gather the data such as ethnographyand a participatory approaches; the data was analyzed using qualitative methods.The observation and in-depth interviews were conducted at a selected group in Leeds, UnitedKingdom whose the case study of the Bardon Grange Allotment Project (BGAP) was initiatedby Leeds Student Union (LSU). This organisation was selected because they already implementedthe local project and established some local initiative