Irrigation-Based Community Development : Technocratic Approaches, Hybrid Governance and Spaces of Participation : an Analysis of the unintended outcomes of the project

Participation is widely applied in rural development project, recently in Southern Morocco several program have been launched, most of them are based on rural community participation. The ambiguous socio-political conditions in which donor-funded aid program are set permits the birth of hybrid form of dominance that undermine the achievement of the participatory goals of the projects. Using Tighdouine Municipality as a case study, the aim of this work is to study the unintended outcomes that are the effect of the clash between technocratic model used by the aid-agency and the traditional forms of deliberation held by local power structures.