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IMPROVING THE
GOVERNANCE OF RURAL
DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
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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?
Global trends towards democratization and decentralization have brought governments closer to the people
The change from the military to democratic government has introduced greater standards of accountability for projects, including rural development projects
Greater voice and participation of the people
Globalization and economic liberalization require more flexible and proactive institutionsDocsity.com
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Why Focus on Improved
Governance?
The need to strengthen public management capacity to eliminate past wastages and inefficiencies in the execution of rural development projects
The National Assembly-the legislative arm- demands new standards of accountability from government in the execution of rural development projects
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