Methods for Rural Development Projects

2001 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Development Projects

Good Governance and Rural Development in Africa

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-93
Author(s):  
Oluwakemi Damola Adejumo-Ayibiowu
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Weak Institutions ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Governance Systems ◽  
European Colonization

This chapter presents African indigenous knowledge as the missing link in achieving good governance and rural development in Africa. The failure of rural development projects in Africa has mostly been attributed to weak institutions and bad governance. Consequently, good governance has become the cornerstone of donors' development cooperation in Africa since the 1990s. While it is true that African public institutions may be weak, the analysis shows that the West contributed to this problem through European colonization of the continent as well as the imposition of Eurocentric one-size-fit-all reforms of the World Bank on indebted African countries. The chapter argues that to improve governance and rural development in Africa, there are well-established and effective cultural indigenous governance systems in the continent from which we can learn.

Rural Development and Urban Migration: Can We Keep Them down on the Farm?

1983 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Rhoda
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Common Belief ◽  
Skill Levels ◽  
Development Interventions ◽  
The Common ◽  
Rural Urban Migration ◽  
Migration Theories

The purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis that rural development projects and programs reduce rural-urban migration. Migration theories and empirical research are briefly reviewed, generalizations are established and these are used to test the hypothesis for a variety of rural development interventions. The study concludes that the common belief that rural interventions reduce urban migration is not justified. While the migration impact of any specific intervention depends on its characteristics and those of the rural area into which it is introduced, some generalizations can be made. Rural-urban migration may be reduced by interventions which increase cultivatable land, equalize land or income distribution, or decrease fertility. On the other hand, migration appears to be stimulated by interventions which increase access to cities, commercialize agriculture, strengthen rural-urban integration, raise education and skill levels, or increase rural inequalities.

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