Dr. Md. Shairul Mashreque, Dr Abul Kashem Mozumder :
This is all about sustainable rural development in Bangladesh. This is the only efficacious mechanism to go deepest into the village community, its hopes and aspirations, problems and prospect. In recent years sustainable rural development has become the prime concern of the government and Non-government organizations. Only Participatory approach anchored in participatory components of action research can promote consensus building, identify key agents of sustainable development, and organize human potential and capacities. The state is the main actor creating an enabling environment for sustainable rural development through its key institution like Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD). NGOc through its participatory methodologies play second fiddle to non so far as sustainable rural development is concerned Rural development ceases to be sustainable without reference to the involvement of major stakeholders and beneficiaries in policy formulation and policy implementation process. In recent years the national and donor agencies, too, have been at the forefront of the growing international consensus that participatory approach and sustainable development are indivisible. The belief is that developing capacity building or learning by doing through participation can be and should be the primary way to eliminate poverty.
. The rural sector in Bangladesh continues to be underdeveloped despite the fact that it feeds its national economy. Until and unless rural economic can be improved to a certain standard any institutional intervention to develop the country will be thwarted. For this reason. Any successive regime in Bangladesh stresses the imperatives of development administration and governance at the micro-level for the implementation of participatory rural development programs. For an agro based economy it is imperative that the creation of local institutions will succeed in educating the people about the changes in the social outlook towards modern development projects in the rural areas of Bangladesh. Our local administration needs to be revamped with the components of development administration to facilitate good governance for a desirable rural transformation
To ensure sustainable rural development rural people need scope for developing local initiative. Participation as individuals in local or national programs contribute to rural development nut rural people need increasingly to take initiative rather than just wait for the national government to organize programs. So the question of involvement of the people at grass root level into production and development comes in. The government has been taking effective steps to bring all sections of the people the educated, the scientists, the technologists, the students, the political leaders, the illiterates, in other words the people of all community and classes in their respective spheres of production and development process. Thus effective participation of the rural masses is shaping their own destiny is important. Involvement of the people at all the stages of planning implementation and in organizing production and distribution system must form the basis of the rural development strategy. There should be a large scale of mobilization of the masses for participation in the building of rural infrastructure such as roads, canals, irrigation facilities, schools, horticulture, fisheries etc.
The state is the main actor creating an enabling environment for sustainable rural development through its key institution like Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD). NGOc through its participatory methodologies play second fiddle to none so far as sustainable rural development is concerned.
Now policy communities at the national and international levels would like to address the issue like constraints of sustainable development and associated challenges of development through project governance. Project governance focuses on deepening implementation engagement through the participation of project officers, personnel and community stakeholders. . The idea is that project beneficiaries through the participation of stakeholders should play a more direct roles in the implementation process. . Government officials should also be responsive to this kind of beneficiaries grievances. In practice, project governance can supplement the roles of stakeholders as watchdogs through more direct forms of involvement
Good governance is an indeterminate term used in international development literature to describe various normative accounts of how public institutions ought to conduct public affairs and manage public resources. These normative accounts are often justified on the grounds that they are thought to be conducive to economic ends, such as the eradication of poverty and successful economic development. Unsurprisingly different organizations have defined governance and good governance differently to promote different normative ends.
Governance of course with the addition of prefix ‘good’ is sinequanon for efficient development management. Development intervention through public policy is now a favorite of intellectual discussion as it very much concerns about institutional governance with the participation of the stakeholders to fulfill its desired objectives. Beneficiaries of public policy look to governing institutions both public and private for better service for ameliorating their socio-economic conditions
In the process of governance the government has to interact with civil societies and NGOs. In fact NGOs have long been handling their projects flowing from policy direction by structured flexibility approach. Self-assessment mechanism, regular monitoring and intermittent change of techniques., if situation demands. This is really efficient and apt man agent of implementation. They are found working in an enabling working environment that they themselves created with participatory component, decentralization and motivation. In health sector, for illustration, there has emerged some positive changes in health bevaviour. Based on the index of health development there has been astounding improvement in health awareness, especially awareness about STD/Hiv/AID, immunization, balanced diet and maternity services.
We may have much to take lessons from NGO’s health management projects. This is of course result-oriented. The paramedics are well trained health workers doing their utmost to the satisfaction of the people. The resource persons at the apex of project management treat things well in a professional manner.
This is all about sustainable rural development in Bangladesh. This is the only efficacious mechanism to go deepest into the village community, its hopes and aspirations, problems and prospect. In recent years sustainable rural development has become the prime concern of the government and Non-government organizations. Only Participatory approach anchored in participatory components of action research can promote consensus building, identify key agents of sustainable development, and organize human potential and capacities. The state is the main actor creating an enabling environment for sustainable rural development through its key institution like Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD). NGOc through its participatory methodologies play second fiddle to non so far as sustainable rural development is concerned Rural development ceases to be sustainable without reference to the involvement of major stakeholders and beneficiaries in policy formulation and policy implementation process. In recent years the national and donor agencies, too, have been at the forefront of the growing international consensus that participatory approach and sustainable development are indivisible. The belief is that developing capacity building or learning by doing through participation can be and should be the primary way to eliminate poverty.
. The rural sector in Bangladesh continues to be underdeveloped despite the fact that it feeds its national economy. Until and unless rural economic can be improved to a certain standard any institutional intervention to develop the country will be thwarted. For this reason. Any successive regime in Bangladesh stresses the imperatives of development administration and governance at the micro-level for the implementation of participatory rural development programs. For an agro based economy it is imperative that the creation of local institutions will succeed in educating the people about the changes in the social outlook towards modern development projects in the rural areas of Bangladesh. Our local administration needs to be revamped with the components of development administration to facilitate good governance for a desirable rural transformation
To ensure sustainable rural development rural people need scope for developing local initiative. Participation as individuals in local or national programs contribute to rural development nut rural people need increasingly to take initiative rather than just wait for the national government to organize programs. So the question of involvement of the people at grass root level into production and development comes in. The government has been taking effective steps to bring all sections of the people the educated, the scientists, the technologists, the students, the political leaders, the illiterates, in other words the people of all community and classes in their respective spheres of production and development process. Thus effective participation of the rural masses is shaping their own destiny is important. Involvement of the people at all the stages of planning implementation and in organizing production and distribution system must form the basis of the rural development strategy. There should be a large scale of mobilization of the masses for participation in the building of rural infrastructure such as roads, canals, irrigation facilities, schools, horticulture, fisheries etc.
The state is the main actor creating an enabling environment for sustainable rural development through its key institution like Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD). NGOc through its participatory methodologies play second fiddle to none so far as sustainable rural development is concerned.
Now policy communities at the national and international levels would like to address the issue like constraints of sustainable development and associated challenges of development through project governance. Project governance focuses on deepening implementation engagement through the participation of project officers, personnel and community stakeholders. . The idea is that project beneficiaries through the participation of stakeholders should play a more direct roles in the implementation process. . Government officials should also be responsive to this kind of beneficiaries grievances. In practice, project governance can supplement the roles of stakeholders as watchdogs through more direct forms of involvement
Good governance is an indeterminate term used in international development literature to describe various normative accounts of how public institutions ought to conduct public affairs and manage public resources. These normative accounts are often justified on the grounds that they are thought to be conducive to economic ends, such as the eradication of poverty and successful economic development. Unsurprisingly different organizations have defined governance and good governance differently to promote different normative ends.
Governance of course with the addition of prefix ‘good’ is sinequanon for efficient development management. Development intervention through public policy is now a favorite of intellectual discussion as it very much concerns about institutional governance with the participation of the stakeholders to fulfill its desired objectives. Beneficiaries of public policy look to governing institutions both public and private for better service for ameliorating their socio-economic conditions
In the process of governance the government has to interact with civil societies and NGOs. In fact NGOs have long been handling their projects flowing from policy direction by structured flexibility approach. Self-assessment mechanism, regular monitoring and intermittent change of techniques., if situation demands. This is really efficient and apt man agent of implementation. They are found working in an enabling working environment that they themselves created with participatory component, decentralization and motivation. In health sector, for illustration, there has emerged some positive changes in health bevaviour. Based on the index of health development there has been astounding improvement in health awareness, especially awareness about STD/Hiv/AID, immunization, balanced diet and maternity services.
We may have much to take lessons from NGO’s health management projects. This is of course result-oriented. The paramedics are well trained health workers doing their utmost to the satisfaction of the people. The resource persons at the apex of project management treat things well in a professional manner.
(Dr. Md. Shairul Mashreque, Department of Public Administration, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh and Dr Abul Kashem Mozumder Department of Public Administration, Jahangir Nagar University, and Member PSC, Bangladesh )
