Local Societies and Rural Development

自组织和参与开发Asia

Edited by Shinichi Shigetomi, Faculty of International Studies, Meijigakuin University and Ikuko Okamoto, Toyo University, Japan

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.