i, the citizen: unraveling the power of citizen engagement

i, the citizen is any one of us and all of us – privileged or marginalized, rich or poor, man or woman, young or old, powerful or vulnerable. To further the evolution of democracy and development, there is a need to transform our identity from anonymous nondescript onlookers to citizens who pro-actively and consciously engage with the system. Through dozens of narratives, the author elucidates how citizen engagement can and must be at the center of development agenda that nations must pursue while giving us a view from the grassroots and from the lens of a policy advocate. Touching upon issues that everyone from students of development studies to policy planners, from activists to program implementers, from politicians to average citizens can relate to, this volume raises as many questions as the clues it provides to what citizen engagement is all about.