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Thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of masters of Public Administration and Development Management (School of Business and Economics) at University of Dire Dawa.

  CHAPTER ONE: PROBLEM STATEMENT AND METHODOLOGY   1.1   Introduction     The Ethiopian Federal democratic Republic proposed that an Integrated Development Planning Representation Forum be established to encourage the participation of communities and other stakeholders at ward levels and in local municipalities (Information Package on Integrated Development Planning, 2001). This is of importance because the affected community members would be in a position to utilize the opportunity to identify themselves more with common societal issues. Whilst participation in Integrated Development Planning has been successful in involving the public, the business and other sectors and different stakeholders, the situation is however complicated by the number of sectors involved as observed by the researcher (Information Package on Integrated Development Planning, 2001). This large number of stakeholders tend to weaken the degree of partici...