This historiography study investigates the Somali Literacy Campaign of 1975, which was implemented to improve the socioeconomic development of the country through literacy. The Somali language did not have orthography until 1972 and the media of administration and education inst…
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The four chapters in this dissertation explore the factors that affect the livelihoods of rural households in Nigeria with an emphasis on understanding the role of the nonfarm economy. Although most rural households are involved in the farm sector, the nonfarm sector has grown s…
The expansion of food-production alone has failed to improve food consumption and access for the majority of the world's poor. The International Food Policy and Research Institute notes that it is common to have 20-30 percent of a country's population consuming less than 80 perc…
The aim of this study was to determine factors affecting people's participation in North West rural development program in Tunisia. The review of literature on people's participation presented two competing paradigms: the liberal view and the radical view. The two paradigms are …
Cette étude s'intéresse au phénomène de la gestion des ressources naturelles en milieu rural nigérien. S'appuyant sur un projet de développement rural intégré œuvrant dans la région de Keita, ses investigations s'articulent autour des raisons qui auraient incité les femmes à s'i…
The global tendencies along with the failure of conventional development model as manifested in the increasing poverty in the Third World in general and in meeting women's aspiration in particular, have challenged the existing development system of thought and provided a new vis…
In Ethiopia, 17% of pregnant women ages 18-49 are malnourished and have low awareness of prenatal nutrition, which may relate to increasingly high rates of maternal and infant mortality. The purpose of this mixed methods research study was to determine the effects of a community…
Aquaculture is currently the world's fastest growing animal-producing sector. The Khorezm province in southwestern Uzbekistan has over 450 small lakes that could be developed for aquaculture, diversifying the local economy and providing rural communities with an additional sourc…
This thesis is concerned with rural development in Nuba peasant communities of the Southern Kordofan region, Sudan. Peasants have always been considered by planners as scapegoats for the failure of state-designed rural development schemes in Third World societies. This plainly d…
To offset declining productivity and incomes in the current cropping systems in Pakistan, the Government invested substantially in rural infrastructure during 1986-92. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) examines whether higher levels of rural infrastructure have actually affected farm…
This study has examined the organizational forms and changes in three different agricultural extension models being implemented in Egypt. These models are the Research, Development, and Diffusion (RDD) model; the Training and Visit (T&V) model; and the Farming System, Research a…
This study is an exploratory attempt to formulate a conceptual framework for analyzing the effects of individual and contextual variables on people's participation in rural Indonesia. The framework incorporates postulates of the moral economy and rational choice theories. This c…
Recent tragic events have led to the effective closing down of Kashmir's tourist industry, while prompting an economic boom for parts of Himachal Pradesh. This has provided a financial base for the increased diversification within the family farm enterprises that make up the vil…
The purpose of this study is to reveal the secrets of success in the Community Based Human Development Projects (PMAK) in the country. Many of the literature has argued that, one of the reasons of success in many community development projects was due to effective leaders in the…
Les decennies '70-80 en Mauritanie sont celles du developpement rural a la base selon la formule de micro-projets. Indissociable des bouvelversements qui ont marque la societe rurale au cours de ces trois decennies, cette approche s'est distinguee dans l'extension de la culture …
This study investigates factors affecting interagency communication in an integrated rural development project (Kalaka-Saribas IADP) in Sarawak, East Malaysia. Twelve government agencies involved in the project were included. Each of the 12 agencies was combined with every other…
This study attempted to examine empirically the problems and prospects of participatory development in Bangladesh where considerable efforts had been directed toward improving the conditions of the rural poor. Weberian theory of social stratification was selected for theoretical…
This thesis examines the primary principles of Japan's development assistance - jijo, meaning self-help. Japan's development assistance is most commonly presented as economic cooperation, and much less is understood about its social and human development programmes at the commun…
The promotion of education has long been a priority of the successive regimes of Ethiopia. Combined with the momentum of Education for All (EFA) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in recent years Ethiopia’s education sector has experienced a major expansion of primary s…