IMPORTANCE OF BOTTOM UP APPROACH

While listening to one of the stalwart of collective action Mr. V. Vivekanadan one thing I realized that all collective action requires bottom up approach. Outsiders should just work as a facilitator not as a leader which is the normal tendency of human being. He gave the example of various NGO which failed to bring change appointing their own employee as the leader of the initiative. he also emphasized that even he never took a leader kind of role in organising the fisherman. He worked as a facilitator and an observer. But my confusion is how to balance one's role in such kind of action when you are deeply involved in it and not seeing any change in the status quo. There are many incidence where people repeatedly told and given direction what should they do but changes rarely take place. In such a condition bottom up approach doesnt work. They are not capable enough to realize the benifit of collective action. In such a condition unless we take some initiative and make other follow its not going to move forward. so sometimes we also need to adopt top down approach.