This Elmhirst lecture first discusses the features of the institutional environment which allow rural people in low income countries to design, plan and implement their own rural development. These are divided into two broad groups: the institutional environment for rural development (environment for the private sector, communities and civil society, local government, and sector institutions) a...

Much of the ICT interventions for rural transformation are exogenous in nature (development from outside), in the sense that they use a “push” approach towards development, without considering the nature and problems of an individual member of the rural community. Information and knowledge transactions, especially with dis-empowered people and groups, are a complex process and ICT needs to be a...

IFAD's comparative advantage lies in its experience in working at the grass-roots level, its understanding of the constraints facing rural poor people, including the most vulnerable, and its capacity to envisage inclusive approaches for socio-economic development. A key element of IFAD’s approach to development is providing support to rural smallholder organizations as a strategy for empowering...

A number of recent writers have argued that the obligations modern states to people who will exist in future may far outstrip their present citizens, given vast and whose livelihoods depend on our actions (Beckstead 2013, Greaves MacAskill 2019, John 2020, Tarsney 2019). And yet do precious little behalf generations, choosing allow incentivize destructive practices such as widespread burning fo...

This article explores the empowerment of women through vocational training programmes. The empowerment of rural women is seen as the only means of poverty eradication. Any economic step of empowering of these poor women will make provision to link the nature of empowerment with the skill training required for efficiently running it. It also discusses the outcome of vocational training, type of ...

empowering rural women is one of the third millennium goals. to this end it was proposed to allot micro credits to rural women in order to provide the required capital to launch productive careers. now after a decade from the establishment of micro credit funds in iran, only few researches have been done to give a rank to them. the present research is conducted through survey method to rank mic...