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Title: | The Challenge of the Participatory Approach to Rural Poverty Alleviation: The Example of Olugbena Group of Villages, Ewekoro, Ogun State, Nigeria |
Authors: | Faniran, Adetoye Adeboyejo, Thompson |
Year: | 2004 |
Periodical: | Africa Development: A Quarterly Journal of CODESRIA (ISSN 0850-3907) |
Volume: | 29 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 70-83 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Nigeria West Africa |
Subjects: | rural development popular participation development projects aquaculture Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Economics and Trade Politics and Government Rural poor poverty Social participation Rural development projects Ogun State (Nigeria) |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/24482758 |
Abstract: | This article draws from the experiences of an NGO, Man and Nature Study/Action Centre (Manasc), concerning the Olugbena rural development project being undertaken in a group of six villages - Olugbena, Baasi, Aroge, Asipa, Daba and Akiode - in Ewekoro Local Government area of Ogun State, Nigeria, to highlight the challenges of participatory rural development in Africa. The difficulties encountered during the realization of a fish pond show that the participatory approach does not solve all problems, and in fact raises new ones, especially in peri-urban areas where the community spirit has suffered serious regressions. The project, funded by the Australian High Commission in Nigeria under its Direct Aid Scheme, comprises a component of a much broader development plan for the area as contained in a pre-feasibility report undertaken in 1995 by Manasc for the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), a Parastatal of the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health. Among the lessons learned during the project are the limitations of blueprints and models; the crucial role of accurate knowledge of local situations as against general statements and beliefs; and the significance of patience and forebearance in the execution of community development schemes. One of the challenges for rural development facilitators, policymakers and practitioners, revolves around appropriate strategies for managing unpredictability, especially those that reduce the unknown elements to acceptable levels and impose the minimum of appropriate structures. Bibliogr., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract, edited] |