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Enhancing Rural Development Projects: Stakeholder Participation & Accountability, Slides of Human Development

The importance of improving governance in rural development projects. It highlights the issues with the old paradigm of rural development and the need for a new paradigm that focuses on stakeholder participation and accountability. The document also provides typologies of improved governance and concludes with recommendations for better implementation and shared values among stakeholders.

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IMPROVING THE

GOVERNANCE OF RURAL

DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

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THE MEANING OF

GOVERNANCE

5 Questions about Rural Development Projects before we examine improvements in their governance:

  • What Rural Development Projects require improved governance?
  • Why Rural Development Projects in the first place?
  • How are Rural Development Projects formulated and implemented?
  • Rural Development Projects formulated and implemented by whom? Docsity.com

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The What Question

 Top-down processes with no stakeholder participation

 Supply-driven processes

New paradigm:

 Focus on all sectors in rural space

 Emphasis on personal incomes and rural poverty

 Emphasis on rural well being

 Emphasis on participatory processes and ownership of rural development projects by key stakeholders

 Focus on women issues Docsity.com

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The Why Question

Old paradigm :

 Agriculture as the engine of growth, with two- sector growth models providing the intellectual underpinning

 An implied “horizontal percolation” theory that since agriculture is the dominant sector in rural space, its growth will somehow percolate horizontally to the other sectors in rural space

 Agriculture as a “horizontal growth percolator”

 Rural man has been treated as “the invisible man” of development theory and development practice Docsity.com

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The Why Question cont’d

 Agriculture as source of wage goods and market for goods and services from manufacturing in the the non-agricultural sectors

 Agenda and guidance of foreign donors and their shifting paradigms

The New Paradigm:

 Failure of agriculture as a “horizontal growth percolator”

 Rural people, as people, not merely as producers of surpluses of commodities required by the urban economy of developing regions and the developed Docsity.com

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The Why question cont’d

centerpiece of the new rural development strategy

 Democratization of political regimes and rising

political importance of the neglected rural majority

 Accelerating rural-urban migration and the rural

development imperative

 Pressures from changing fads and fashions of

foreign donors

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The Why Question

 No explicit rural development policy to guide the articulation and formulation of rural development strategy and projects

 Rural development projects not treated as varieties that should of necessity be subjected to varietal trials for sensitivity to environmental stresses before implementation to minimize implementation (varietal) failures

 Non-involvement of intended beneficiaries in implementation

 Absence of impact assessment Docsity.com

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The How Question cont’d

The New Paradigm:

 Participatory processes in project formulation involving wide spectrum of stakeholders and intended beneficiaries

 Involvement of intended beneficiaries in rural development priority setting

 Rural Policy frame to guide the formulation of rural development strategy and projects

 Subjecting rural development projects to varietal trials for sensitivity to environmental stress

 Well formulated and well implemented RDPs Docsity.com

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The By Whom Question

The New Paradigm:

 Stakeholders and intended beneficiaries involved in project formulation and implementation

 Intended beneficiaries involved in priority setting in a bottom-up approach

 Intended beneficiaries involved in project implementation

 Intended beneficiaries involved in project monitoring and evaluation

 Intended beneficiaries involved in project impact assessment Docsity.com

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The For Whose Benefits Question

The Old Paradigm:

 Farmers and consumers of present generation

 Foreigners, contractors and merchants in the supply chain

 Political leaders and civil servants engaged in rent-seeking behavior

 Unintended beneficiaries

The New Paradigm:

 The rural majority, rural people

 Present and future generations of rural and urban people

 Intended beneficiaries Docsity.com

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MEANING OF GOVERNANCE

OF RURAL DEV PROJECTS

Why Focus on Improved Governance of Rural Development Projects?

  1. Global trends towards democratization and decentralization have brought governments closer to the people

  2. The change from the military to democratic government has introduced greater standards of accountability for projects, including rural development projects

  3. Greater voice and participation of the people

  4. Globalization and economic liberalization require more flexible and proactive institutionsDocsity.com

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Why Focus on Improved

Governance?

  1. The need to strengthen public management capacity to eliminate past wastages and inefficiencies in the execution of rural development projects

  2. The National Assembly-the legislative arm- demands new standards of accountability from government in the execution of rural development projects

  3. Increasingly scarce resources within the context of Structural Adjustment Programs and the fiscal allocative efficiency imperative Docsity.com

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Why Focus on Improved

Governance?

 Low levels of monitoring and evaluation capacity

 Absence of impact assessment of projects

The New Paradigm:

 Involvement of intended beneficiaries and key stakeholders in the formulation of rural development policy, rural development strategy and rural development projects, including participatory determination of rural development priorities

 Stakeholder participation in the selection of management teams to run rural development projects Docsity.com

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New Paradigm in Improved

Governance of Rural Projects

 Explicit statement of values, vision and mission of rural development projects

 High level of transparency

 High level of accountability

 Sensitivity analysis of rural development projects for resistance to environmental stress

 Effective and functioning monitoring and evaluation mechanisms

 Environmental sensitivity analysis of rural development projects

 Impact assessment analysis of projects Docsity.com