1st Edition

The Future of Rural Development Between the Adjustment of the Project Approach and Sectoral Programme Desig

By Hans Gsanger Copyright 1994
    96 Pages
    by Routledge

    96 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book gives a practitioner's account of international experiences with rural development seen from a German angle. It argues for a development co-operation for rural areas that actively supports popular participation, beneficiaries' self-organization, decentralization and, consequently, smaller self-managed (para)projects rather than large, top-down organized rural development projects.

    Summary and Conclusions, Introduction, I The High and Low Points of Integrated Rural Development (IRD), 1 Growing Poverty Despite Modernization and Economic Growth—Rural Development as a Strategy, 2 The Basic Needs Strategy and IRD—Grass-Roots- Oriented Development Despite an Unfavourable Environment, 3 Regional Rural Development (RRD) as a Prototype of Rural Development Projects, 4 IRD/RRD—a Failed Approach?, 5 Lessons Learnt from 40 Years of Rural Development—A Provisional Appraisal, II Rural Development under the Conditions of the 1990s, 6 Laying Suitable Foundations for Effective Poverty Orientation in Rural Development, 7 Target-Group-Oriented Sectoral Programmes as Elements of Comprehensive Rural Development, 8 Necessary Modification of the Project Approaches, Notes, Bibliography, Figure 1

    Biography

    Hans Gsanger