Poverty Alleviation Strategy: Engagement of Indigenous Community-based Groups as Assets towards Community Development

This article investigates the viability of community-based tourism (CBT) in support of socio-economic development and poverty alleviation through a case study in Nqileni Village, Eastern Cape Province in South Africa. This was done through data solicited using a qualitative research approach amongst residents of Nqileni village in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The data collected was then analysed using NVivo system, version 11, which provided substance to the research through the creation of a comprehensive observation report. The results indicated a positive view of members of the community relating to the contribution of CBT to community development (socio-economics) and poverty alleviation.

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Towards a Tourism and Community-Development Framework: An African Perspective

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12135305 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (13) ◽

pp. 5305

Author(s):

Owen Gohori ◽

Peet van der Merwe

Keyword(s):

Community Development ◽

Poverty Alleviation ◽

Poor People ◽

Community Based ◽

Functional Community ◽

Direct Observations ◽

Development Framework ◽

African Perspective ◽

Depth Interviews

This article examines the perceptions of local people concerning the potential of tourism to alleviate poverty and bring about community development in the Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe. In-depth interviews, direct observations, and informal conversations were used to collect data in the four districts of Manicaland where there were functional community-based tourism (CBT) projects. After establishing a poverty criterion, data were collected from 43 local poor people in the four districts of the case study area. The results show that tourism development in Manicaland brought about community development through social, economic, environmental and cultural benefits. The authors suggest that there are interrelationships between tourism, poverty alleviation and community development. They show these interrelationships through a tourism and community-development framework which they developed based upon the results of the various methods of data collection used in this study.

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Pengembangan Agroforestry untuk Mendukung Ketahanan Pangan dan Pemberdayaan Petani Sekitar Hutan

Forum penelitian Agro Ekonomi ◽

10.21082/fae.v29n2.2011.83-98 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 83 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Henny Mayrowani ◽

NFN Ashari

Keyword(s):

Community Development ◽

Poverty Alleviation ◽

Food Production ◽

Community Organization ◽

Food Crops ◽

Forest Trees ◽

Community Based ◽

Village Community ◽

Agro Forestry ◽

National Food Security

English Agroforestry is developed to offer benefits to the nearby communities. It also aims at producing food. Improving food production could be carried out through an extensification program, such as an agro forestry system. Ministry of Forestry also takes a part in national food security through agro forestry where it is an intercropping between food crops and forest trees. Agro forestry is run using a Community-Based Forest Management (PHBM). To integrate forest preservation and community development, PHBM facilitates establishment of Forest Village Community Organization (LMDH). Agro forestry commonly involves LMDH contributes to 41.32 percent of the households’ income and creates employment of 2.39 persons per hectare. Agro forestry is effective in improving income distribution, households’ income, food production, and poverty alleviation in the communities nearby the forests. Indonesian Agroforestry dikembangkan untuk memberi manfaat kepada manusia atau meningkatkan kesejahteraan masyarakat. Agroforesty utamanya diharapkan dapat membantu mengoptimalkan hasil suatu bentuk penggunaan lahan secara berkelanjutan guna menjamin dan memperbaiki kebutuhan bahan pangan. Tingginya laju pertumbuhan penduduk mengindikasikan meningkatnya pangan yang harus tersedia. Pencapaian sasaran peningkatan produksi pangan dapat dilakukan dengan pola intensifikasi melalui peningkatan teknologi budidaya dan ekstensifikasi yang antara lain dapat dilakukan melalui perluasan areal pertanian di lahan hutan dengan sistim agroforestry. Kementerian kehutanan merupakan salah satu sektor yang ikut bertanggung jawab terhadap ketahanan pangan, yang antara lain mendapat tugas menyediakan lahan hutan untuk pengembangan pangan seperti dalam bentuk tumpangsari atau agroforestri. Tumpangsari atau agroforestry adalah suatu sistem penggunaan lahan dimana pada lahan yang sama ditanam secara bersama-sama tegakan hutan dan tanaman pertanian. Manfaat yang diperoleh dari agroforestry adalah meningkatnya produksi pangan, pendapatan petani, kesempatan kerja dan kualitas gizi masyarakat bagi kesejahteraan petani sekitar hutan. Untuk mengintegrasikan kelestarian fungsi hutan dan kesejahteraan masyarakat dikembangkan konsep hutan kemasyarakatan atau PHBM yang merupakan fasilitasi Lembaga Masyarakat Desa Hutan (LMDH). Perkembangan realisasi agroforestry menunjukan hasil yang sangat menggembirakan. Agroforestry yang pada umumnya melibatkan LMDH mampu memberikan kontribusi pendapatan rumah tangga 41,32 persen dan penyerapan tenaga kerja 2,39 orang per ha. Agroforestry merupakan salah satu sarana yang efektif untuk pemerataan dan tahapan untuk mengatasi kemiskinan di lingkungan masyarakat desa hutan, yang bisa meningkatkan pendapatan dan produksi pangan.

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Indigenizing Participation for Sustainable Community-Based Development Programmes in Ghana

Journal of Asian and African Studies ◽

10.1177/0021909620979333 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 002190962097933

Author(s):

Evans Sakyi Boadu ◽

Isioma Ile ◽

Madonna Yaa Oduro

Keyword(s):

Community Development ◽

Indigenous Knowledge ◽

Process Analysis ◽

Indigenous Community ◽

Knowledge Systems ◽

Research Approach ◽

Government Officials ◽

Community Based ◽

Local Participation ◽

Indigenous Knowledge Systems

The efficacy of indigenous knowledge and local participation has been argued to be some of the pathways to curbing the present indigenous community development impasse. Employing an in-depth qualitative research approach, 32 traditional and community development leaders as well as local government officials were interviewed to ascertain local the present community development paradigms and proposed future pathways. Drawing from local insights and a range of scholarly perspectives this paper assessed how meaningful indigenous knowledge systems and indigenous people can actively engage and sustain community-driven development programmes. Utilizing a process analysis, the paper, established that there is a disconnect between indigenous community knowledge systems, values, norms and other cultural realities and contemporary participatory community development approaches. It further illustrates, the absence of local participation in community development and proposed a framework for the integration of indigenous knowledge systems, institutions and other cultural realities in community-based development programmes to ensure development sustainability.

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Indigenous Community Development Practices as a Substratum in Designing Poverty Alleviation Policies for Ghana: Lessons from South Korea’s Saemaul Movement

Journal of Asian Research ◽

10.22158/jar.v4n2p1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. p1

Author(s):

Duke O. Ofosu-Anim ◽

Seung-Hee Back

Keyword(s):

Rural Communities ◽

Community Development ◽

South Korea ◽

Poverty Alleviation ◽

Policy Design ◽

Rural Poverty ◽

Indigenous Community ◽

Economic Conditions ◽

South Korean ◽

Research Findings

Saemaul Movement was a community-based rural poverty alleviation policy of South Korea in the 1970s which contributed to ending poverty in rural communities. Its success can be attributed to how Koreans made use of indigenous community practices in policy design. The objective of the research was to evaluate the adaptation of Saemaul in Ghana, focusing on similarities in economic conditions and indigenous practices. The research utilised literature, interviews, and observations as the basis of methodology. The research findings revealed that the rural economic conditions in South Korea before Saemaul Movement was introduced was very similar to Ghana’s current rural economic indicators, which presents a reliable basis for comparative analysis on adaptation of Saemaul Movement in Ghana. Interviewees made a case for replicability of SM in Ghana. The results point to the existence of many similar indigenous rural community development practices which are prevalent in both case countries, and a possibility of developing poverty alleviation policies in Ghana based on existing indigenous practices as evidenced in the South Korean Saemaul Movement case. The researchers conclude that for poverty alleviation policies to work in Ghana, efforts in policy design must be based on utilising existing indigenous practices of rural communities.

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Slum Kampong Tourism “Jakarta Hidden Tour”: Designing Eco-Cultural Based Pro-Poor Tourism

European Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies ◽

10.26417/ejis.v1i3.p111-122 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

pp. 111

Author(s):

Retnayu Prasetyanti

Keyword(s):

International Development ◽

Poverty Alleviation ◽

Real Life ◽

Tourism Development ◽

System Thinking ◽

Development Programs ◽

Community Based ◽

Economy Condition ◽

Business Sectors ◽

Community Movement

Forecasts of high tourism development in Jakarta, Indonesia, where massive poverty cases also exist, has directed tourism as a way of alleviating poverty; this is usually termed “pro-poor tourism” which involves multi variant stakeholders and interests. Jakarta has widespread poor areas called “slum Kampongs”, where government and business sectors are supported by international development agencies have tried to tackle down poverty by economy-community (eco-community) based development programs. However, distinguished from those programs, slum kampong development based pro-poor tourism is yet unsupported by bureaucracy agencies. “Jakarta Hidden Tour” (see “Jakarta Hidden Tour” in Trip Advisor) a “wild” tour activity which is promoted by community movement led by Ronny Poluan indicates a term of economy and cultural (eco-cultural) based slum kampong tourism that basically can pursue a better community development and economy condition through a unique culture and real life portrait experience. This paper analyses the dilemma of “Jakarta Hidden Tour” which is claimed as a poor exhibition while in another hand tries to offer a new design and approach of pro-poor tourism by utilizing thematic Kampong development with local culture excellences as such “Green Slum Kampong in Ciliwung river”, or “Sailor Slum Kampong in North Jakarta”. Key learn from Brazil with slum kampong tourism in Santa Marta is a motivation for government to live a recognition, that like any other global/industrial policies, tourism is highly driven by political interest. By conducting a system thinking perspective base, this paper analyses how “Jakarta Hidden Tour” and government’s supporting policy will ensure eco-cultural pro-poor tourism development and how stakeholders as a system’s element need to uphold poverty alleviation towards sustainability

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The Current Status and Problems with the Implementation of Interprofessional Education in Japan.

Journal of Research in Interprofessional Practice and Education ◽

10.22230/jripe.2015v5n1a181 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Sachiko Ogawa ◽

Yoshinori Takahashi ◽

Misako Miyazaki

Keyword(s):

Community Development ◽

Interprofessional Education ◽

Social Care ◽

Current Status ◽

Future Research ◽

Clinical Settings ◽

Community Based ◽

Social Settings ◽

Health And Social Care ◽

Key Issues

Background: Although interprofessional education (IPE) has come to be considered essential in health and social care education programs, most IPE programs in Japan focus on clinical settings. However, following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, IPE programs are considered essential for community development, especially in disaster-affected areas. To identify key issues for the development of IPE, we aimed to clarify the current status of IPE programs and problems in their implementation using an original questionnaire. Methods and Findings: The targets were 865 undergraduate courses that qualify students to take national registered health/social care examinations. Effective responses were received from 284 targets. Of these 284 respondents, 103 respondents had already implemented an IPE program and 181 respondents had not. Among the 103 respondents who had already implemented an IPE program, we found a tendency to collaborate with partners in clinical settings or in social settings. Furthermore, respondents who had implemented or were planning to implement an IPE program had difficulty with ‘interdisciplinary and/or extramural collaboration’ and ‘educational factors’. Conclusions: These difficulties could be considered barriers to developing effective IPE programs for community-based collaboration between health and social care professionals. Future research should investigate more specific solutions to these problems.

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