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Activities listed on this page:
Support to participatory local governance
Regional networking by FAO with the Dhaka-based Centre on Integrated
Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP) promotes policy dialogue
on the impact of decentralization policies and programmes in the 13 CIRDAP-member
countries. Country reviews indicate major constraints to the implementation of
decentralization and a lack of financial resources and training capacities for
strengthening participatory, pro-poor decision-making at the local level.
For more information see:
Decentralized rural development and the role of self
help organizations
Country experiences in decentralization in South Asia
In India, a new
training curriculum for local government was
developed in collaboration with the Indian Government (National Institute of Rural
Development) emphasizing participatory decision-making at the village council (Panchayati Raj) level.
"How-to" handbooks for small and medium
rural enterprises
FAO's many "how-to" handbooks on small and medium rural enterprise business
planning include:
Success case replication: A manual for increasing farmer household income.
This manual is based on the outcome of an FAO/ESCAP regional project that
promoted the replication of successful, village-level, small enterprises that
mobilized local successful entrepreneurs as trainers of small farmers in farm and
non-farm enterprise development. The project assisted 3 300 farmer households
in eight Asian countries, boosting their incomes by an average of US$450 per year.
Regional networking on agricultural cooperative enterprise development
In 1991, FAO established the Network for Development of Agricultural
Cooperatives in Asia and the Pacific (NEDAC), representing 3 million farmer
cooperatives in 11 Asian countries. Joint activities focus on enabling policies,
legislation and capacity building for agricultural cooperative enterprise development,
regular exchange visits and country-level cooperative projects, such as in
Thailand and Viet Nam. A study of cooperative legislation in selected
Asian and Pacific countries was published in 1998.
FAO/NEDAC workshops:
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Computerization to Promote Agricultural Cooperative Enterprise Development
(Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2004) |
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Promotion of Agricultural Cooperative Enterprise Development and
Business Planning (New Delhi, India, 2003) |
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Round Table on the Impact of Globalization/Liberalization on Agriculture
in General and Agricultural Cooperatives in Particular (Bangkok, Thailand, 2001) |
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Regional Round Table on Capacity Building of Agricultural
Cooperatives to Meet Market and Human Resources Development Requirements (Beijing,
China, 2001) |
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Regional Workshop on Financial Viability of Agricultural Cooperatives
(Comilla, Bangladesh, 1997) |
Enterprise development by indigenous people
FAO set up a village-level enterprise development network of savings
and credit unions of hill tribe women in northern Thailand. Partnership
with the Credit Union League of Thailand (CULT), the Micro Economic Development
Project (MEDP), government agencies and non-governmental organizations
in local training needs assessment
led to a hands-on rural entrepreneurship training programme for the Lawa and Karen
hill tribe village groups. The MEDP, an indigenous people's network, established
in-house training capacities in village enterprise development covering 40
villages comprising five ethnic groups.
Enterprise development by farmers with disabilities
As an outcome of an FAO-funded technical cooperation programme project of
activities and case studies in Thailand,
two training-of-trainers handbooks on rural enterprise development for farmers
with disabilities have been published. Also, two awareness-building videos have
been produced that present real-life struggles of Thai farmers with disabilities
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