Constructing the system for Community Welfare by a participation and collaboration : significance and the way

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The purpose of this paper is to examine the role between local government, government, nonprofit service providers and residents, focusing on process of making a plan for community welfare and doing the plan. We selected five typical cities (Takahama, Chino, Miyakonojou, Minamata, and Matuyama).The findings are as follows.First, some residents ware appointed members of the committeemen and discussed about a plan for community welfare in a committee meeting.Second, the plan expect residents taking active roles in community welfare. As a matter of fact, residents are taking interest in community based voluntaryThird, residents are traditional groups and new functional groups. The problem of traditional groups is to cooperate with new functional groups. They have to study the role of citizen in the future.