ABSTRACT Have the World Bank’s avowed inclusive strategies metamorphosed into renewed forms of ‘tyranny’ over local beneficiaries of development interventions? This article’s qualitative analysis of Fadama’s local beneficiaries’ experience reveals how rules, procedures, strategies and processes designed for results can culminate in difficulties for the intended beneficiaries, stifling social, economic and political empowerment. The research found that a form of depoliticisation was implicit within Fadama’s participatory implementation strategies and processes, which, in the view of this author, is not accidental. Participation here, as James Ferguson contends, serves an ‘anti-politics’ machinery role designed to remove politics from development planning agendas and to keep them strictly technocratic and problems-based, thus limiting beneficiaries’ possible critique, even of the project’s governance structure or broader public institutions. This article contributes to on-going discussions about enhancing meaningful participation in development planning as a prelude to improving the prospects of advancing social change.

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（重新参与）非洲参与式发展规划过程的“专制”：以尼日利亚的 Fadama 为例

摘要 世界银行公开宣称的包容性战略是否已经转变为对发展干预措施的当地受益者实施新形式的“专制”？本文对 Fadama 当地受益人经历的定性分析揭示了为结果而设计的规则、程序、战略和流程如何最终导致预期受益人遇到困难，扼杀社会、经济和政治赋权。研究发现，在 Fadama 的参与式实施战略和过程中隐含着一种去政治化的形式，在作者看来，这并非偶然。正如詹姆斯·弗格森 (James Ferguson) 所言，参与在这里扮演着“反政治”机制的角色，旨在将政治从发展规划议程中移除，并使其严格保持技术官僚主义和以问题为基础，从而限制了受益人可能对项目的治理结构或更广泛的公共机构进行的批评。本文有助于正在进行的关于加强对发展规划的有意义参与的讨论，作为改善推进社会变革前景的前奏。