Non-Governmental Organizations in Managing Decentralization of Rural Development

摘要

It is now generally recognized that development must be defined in local terms and tailored to local situations. This paper examines problems that donors face in planning and managing small-scale, decentralized rural development projects. After providing background on the recent donor shift toward small-scale, rural, decentralized projects, the authors examine features of voluntary organizations that may impede cooperation with local systems and describe some of the organizational forms that can be found at the local level. Various difficulties that are associated with decentralized, local-participation project management are pointed out.