Career-Community Development: A Framework For Career Counseling and Capacity Building in Rural Communities

In South Africa, communal rural community development has, for the most part, been viewed as an add-on, rather than as an integral value in the broad spectrum of conservation activities being practised in the country. This paper, therefore, argues for the reality-based adoption of an extension of existing conservation paradigms to incorporate the development of communal rural communities as an integral part of the overall wildlife conservation and management policy in South Africa. The answer to the seeming contradiction in the focus of wildlife conservation and rural development lies in the devel- opment of wildlife management programmes based on multi-disciplinary and multiinstitutional interaction, by also harnessing scientific knowledge and skills found in the social sciences. In this manner, the present largely lip service related to so-called com- munity participation in wildlife management can be changed into programmes which really achieve conservation-based community development enhancing survival for both the communities and their inherent natural resources.

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Capacity Building of Rural Communities in Post-Earthquake Reconstruction in Nepal

Ecocities Now ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-58399-6_9 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 133-147

Author(s):

Bishnu Pandey ◽

Ranjan Dhungel ◽

Surya Narayan Shrestha ◽

Sushil Gyewali

Keyword(s):

Rural Communities ◽

Capacity Building ◽

Earthquake Reconstruction

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Ecotourism for Community Development

International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development ◽

10.4018/jsesd.2011040103 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 31-40 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

S. P. Bansal ◽

Jaswinder Kumar

Keyword(s):

Community Development ◽

Capacity Building ◽

National Park ◽

Local Community ◽

Economic Incentives ◽

Point Of View ◽

Development Theory ◽

Government Officials ◽

Scheffe Test ◽

Ecological Principle

Ecotourism is sustainable tourism, which is based on the ecological principle and sustainable development theory. There is emergent need of capacity building for local people for ecotourism in the villages of Great Himalayan National Park (GHNP). Ecotourism involves local community for the conservation of the area’s ecology and biodiversity, in return, provides economic incentives to the community. This paper studies the ecotourism perspective from the point of view of major stakeholders of ecotourism, i.e., local communities, tourists, ecotourism operators, and government officials in Great Himalayan National Park (GHNP) of Kullu district in Himachal Pradesh. This study determines the various issues related to ecotourism and these stakeholders’ opinions about these issues. A lack of knowledge and awareness exists in the local community about ecotourism and its benefits, while the other stakeholders have strong opinions for various ecotourism statements. An ANOVA test is conducted followed by a Scheffe test to the different groups of stakeholders. The paper gives some suggestions to increase ecotourism awareness, capacity building for ecotourism for the local community, and community participation for the development of ecotourism in GHNP.

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Social Change through Entrepreneurship: Utilizing Portable Sawmill Based Small Businesses to Promote Community Development

Journal of Social Change ◽

10.5590/josc.2017.09.1.07 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Crystal Lupo

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Rural Communities ◽

Community Development ◽

Small Businesses ◽

Large Scale ◽

Local Community ◽

Wood Products ◽

Forest Industry ◽

Food And Agriculture ◽

Food And Agriculture Organization

Reduced demand for wood and wood products resulting from the economic crisis in the first decade of the 2000s severely impacted the forest industry throughout the world, causing large forest-based organizations to close (CBC News, 2008; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009; Pepke, 2009). The result was a dramatic increase in unemployment and worker displacement among forest product workers between 2011 and 2013 (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2014). Forested rural communities often depended on the large-scale forest industry for their livelihood, and as a result, decreased reliance on large-scale industry became increasingly important (Lupo, 2015). This article explores portable-sawmill-based entrepreneurship as an opportunity to promote social change in the local community. Results indicated that portable-sawmill-based small businesses created community development opportunities, which promoted social change in the larger community through farm business expansion, conservation efforts to improve local community development, and niche market creation in the local or larger community.

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Effectiveness of a Human Capacity-building Initiative on Improving the Health of Rural Communities

10.21203/rs.3.rs-269478/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Hamed Rezakhani Moghaddam ◽

Vahideh Aghamohammadi ◽

Aghil Habibi ◽

Yousef Hamidzadeh

Keyword(s):

Rural Communities ◽

Capacity Building ◽

Communication Skills ◽

Health Workers ◽

Healthy Lifestyle ◽

Intervention Group ◽

Control Group ◽

Control Group Design ◽

Job Motivation ◽

Knowledge And Practice

Abstract Background: Given the major role of capacity building in improving the health of rural communities and due to the lack of studies performed on this issue, we aimed to investigate the effectiveness of educational and capacity building intervention on staff communication, job motivation skills, educational performance, and knowledge and behavior of health house clients in Ardabil city’s rural communities.Methods: The pretest-posttest nonequivalent control group design was conducted. In this study, convenience sampling was performed and a total of 220 health care recipients and 108 staff were surveyed in both interventional and control groups. The intervention was designed based on four approaches for capacity building introduced by Crisp et al. Data were collected using three questionnaires including knowledge and practice about healthy lifestyle, communication skills self-assessment, and Wright's job motivation. All statistical analyses were fulfilled using IBM SPSS Statistics software.Results: At the end of the study; the mean scores of knowledge and practice of referrals to health centers about a healthy lifestyle and communication skills and job motivation of healthcare worker increased statistically in the intervention group compared to the baseline (p< 0.05), but changes in these variables were not significant in the control group (p>0.05). Following 3 months of intervention, there were significant differences among the study groups (p< 0.05).Conclusion: Capacity building comprehensive interventions can help in identifying rural community health needs, increasing knowledge and practice of rural communities' residents about health issues, promoting health workers empowerment, and improving health workers' motivation.

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Social Capital and Community Development

Measuring and Analyzing Informal Learning in the Digital Age - Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-8265-8.ch011 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 153-168

Author(s):

Adejoke C. Babalola

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Rural Communities ◽

Local Government ◽

Community Development ◽

Informal Learning ◽

Group Discussion ◽

Research Work ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Development Projects ◽

Southwestern Nigeria

This chapter explores the types of informal learning that take place as women participate in adult literacy programs, community development projects, and as they use social capital in three states in south-western Nigeria. The data used for this study were extracted from a recent research work titled “Effect of Literacy Education and Social Capital on Rural Women's Involvement in Community Development in Southwestern Nigeria.” Three states were selected from the southwestern Nigeria, two Local Government Areas (LGAs) were selected from each of the three states, and two rural communities were also selected from each of the selected local government areas by random sampling technique. From each of the rural communities, 60 rural women were randomly selected, making a total number of 720 respondents. A structured questionnaire, an in-depth interview guide, and focus group discussion were used to collect data. The women attributed the informal learning documented to the relationship they formed during the period they attended literacy classes and participated in community development projects.

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The Design and Implementation of Rural Communication Technology Initiatives

Using Community Informatics to Transform Regions ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-132-2.ch006 ◽

2004 ◽

pp. 83-99

Author(s):

Lyn Simpson ◽

Leonie Daws ◽

Leanne Wood

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Social Networks ◽

Rural Communities ◽

Community Development ◽

Communication Technology ◽

Design And Implementation ◽

Community Technology ◽

Key Issues ◽

Technology Initiatives ◽

Potential Interactions

Communication technology initiatives have proved to be an important influence in rural communities in recent years. Our research has demonstrated that such initiatives have far-reaching effects on a community’s formal and informal social networks and, as a result, on its social capital. Given this fact, it is critical that leaders and management committees of community technology projects are aware of the broader social context in which project activities take place, and the potential interactions that can both benefit and damage community social capital. This chapter addresses key issues that have arisen out of a number of major communication technology projects in Queensland, Australia, and draws upon our findings to propose guidelines that will assist project planners with the design and implementation of future communication technology initiatives in the context of regional and rural community development.

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