Local Societies and Rural Development: Self-Organization and Participatory Development in Asia

ISBN-13: 9781783474370 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 256 str.

Shinichi Shigetomi;Ikuko Okamoto

Opis

The importance of community-based and participatory approaches to rural development in developing countries has long been emphasized. Rural people, who are economically and politically weak as individuals, can only participate in development projects when they are collectively organized. However, this is no easy task. This book aims to identify the mechanisms in each local society through which rural people can best organize themselves to meet their development requirements. It stresses the need to find local mechanisms that motivate and control the members of a new organization in order to achieve organizational goals.