Can Socio-Economic Incentives Improve the Livelihoods of Communities Surrounding Rehabilitated ecosystems? An empirical evidence of Kondoa Rehabilitated Rural Areas, Dodoma, Tanzania

The involvement of vulnerable actors in co-production activities is a debated topic in the current public service literature. While vulnerable actors should have the same opportunities to be involved as other actors, they may not have the needed competences, skills and attitudes to contribute to this process. This paper is part of a broader project on family caregivers’ engagement in remote and rural areas. In particular, it investigates how to facilitate co-production by looking at four co-design workshops with family caregivers, representatives of a local home care agency and researchers. The transcripts of the workshops were coded using NVivo, and the data were analysed based on the existing theory about co-production. Two main findings were identified from the analysis. First, the adoption of co-production by vulnerable actors may occur in conjunction with other forms of engagement. Second, the interactions among facilitators and providers play a crucial role in encouraging the adoption of co-production. We identified at least two strategies that may help facilitators and providers achieve that goal. However, there is a need for an in-depth understanding of how facilitators and providers should interact to enhance implementation of co-production.

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Artificial Intelligence In Oncology Socio-Economic Incentives As A Factor In Eliminating The Shortage Of Medical Personnel In Rural Health Care

10.33920/med-03-2010-05 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 41-52

Author(s):

Olga Doshchannikova ◽

Keyword(s):

Rural Health ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Medical Personnel ◽

Economic Incentives ◽

Active Involvement ◽

Medical Institutions ◽

Economic Support ◽

The Impact ◽

Stimulation Of

The study determines the impact of regional measures of socio-economic stimulation of medical personnel on the process of employment in medical institutions in rural areas. The analysis of Federal and regional legislation regulating the process of encouraging doctors to find employment in the rural health system is carried out. It was found that measures of socio-economic support for the provision of ready-made housing in the framework of regional events, contributed to a more active involvement and long-term consolidation of medical personnel in rural areas.

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Temporal evolution of bushmeat traded in High Niger National Park, Guinea, West Africa

Oryx ◽

10.1017/s0030605319001443 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

Lucie Duonamou ◽

Alexandre Konate ◽

Jiliang Xu ◽

Tatyana Humle

Keyword(s):

Biodiversity Conservation ◽

Rural Areas ◽

National Park ◽

Temporal Evolution ◽

Crop Protection ◽

Economic Incentives ◽

Published Data ◽

Urban Centre ◽

Rural Markets ◽

Bushmeat Trade

Abstract The High Niger National Park is one of the most important protected areas for biodiversity conservation in Guinea. This study examined the temporal evolution of the bushmeat trade in three rural markets in the Park and in the nearest urban centre, Faranah. We collected data in markets during August–November 2017 in three villages around the Mafou core area of the Park and in Faranah, and compared these data with equivalent published data from the same rural areas in 2001 and 2011 and from Faranah in 1994, 1995, 1996 and 2011. Across all study periods, mammals predominated in the bushmeat trade. In rural markets we noted a marked increase in the number of carcasses and biomass offered for sale from 2001 onwards, whereas in Faranah there were no differences over time other than a peak in 1996. Overall, there was an increase in the sale of smaller sized species (< 10 kg), and a marked increase in the sale of species that forage on crops, including the green monkey Chlorocebus sabaeus and warthog Phacochoerus africanus, in spite of religious taboos against the consumption of primates and Suidae. Green monkeys were not sold in markets during the 1990s but were the dominant species in Faranah in 2011 and 2017. Our findings suggest a marked shift in traded species, associated with crop protection by farmers and economic incentives to kill and trade crop-foraging species. This study highlights the value of a longitudinal perspective for investigating the dynamic relationship between local livelihoods and biodiversity conservation.

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Culture and Rural Development: Voices from Poland

Eastern European Countryside ◽

10.2478/eec-2014-0001 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 5-26 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Krzysztof Gorlach ◽

Marta Klekotko ◽

Piotr Nowak

Keyword(s):

Rural Communities ◽

Rural Development ◽

Human Development ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Cultural Issues ◽

Social Transformations ◽

Dimensional Image

Abstract The paper is focused on the issue of culture and its connections to rural developments. It was based on the assumption that the culture has various impacts on rural communities` life, as well as, it has been present in various ways in functioning and changes that might be observed in rural areas. In our opinion, such a perspective should be presented in a more detailed way in order to stress the multiple and various impact of cultural issues on economic and social transformations in rural areas. Therefore, we divided our paper into three consecutive parts. In the first one, we discussed the multi-dimensional image of culture, and its role in human development. In the second one, we discussed some changes in the mechanisms of rural development, perceived as moving from the traditional to the contemporary one. We wanted to stress that culture seems to be an important part of the latter one. The last part of our considerations brought some empirical evidence from Poland focused on the role of culture in rural developments showing, at the same type, some examples of this new mechanism of rural development.

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The availability of local services and its impact on community cohesion in rural areas: Evidence from the English countryside

Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit ◽

10.1177/0269094219831951 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 34 (3) ◽

pp. 248-270 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Ignazio Cabras ◽

Chi KM Lau

Keyword(s):

Empirical Evidence ◽

Significant Relationship ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Social Engagement ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Local Communities ◽

Community Cohesion ◽

Rural Parishes ◽

Considerable Impact ◽

Rural England

This paper investigates how the availability of services and amenities influences levels of community cohesion in rural England. Specifically, we measure levels of community cohesion in selected rural parishes between two points of time (2000 and 2010) using an index of indicators based on the presence or absence of retailers and amenities. Results of this analysis provide empirical evidence that the presence of facilities and services has a considerable impact on residents in rural areas, suggesting a significant relationship between the presence of small retailers and social engagement in the English countryside. We discuss these findings with regard to policies and initiatives that could enhance the positive impact that services and amenities operating within villages and rural hamlets have on local communities.

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Optimum Population in Rural Areas: Empirical Evidence from the Franc Zone

The Quarterly Journal of Economics ◽

10.2307/1885413 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 91 (2) ◽

pp. 177 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

J. Dirck Stryker

Keyword(s):

Empirical Evidence ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Franc Zone ◽

Optimum Population

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EFFECT OF RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION OF YOUTHS ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN OGBOMOSO SOUTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, OYO STATE. NIGERIA

Journal of Humanities, Social Science and Creative Arts ◽

10.51406/jhssca.v11i1.1688 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 66-77

Author(s):

A. O. OKETAYO ◽

Y. L. OLALEYE

Keyword(s):

Local Government ◽

Rural Development ◽

Significant Relationship ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Economic Incentives ◽

Local Government Area ◽

Urban Migration ◽

Rural Urban Migration

The study examined the effect of rural-urban migration of youth on rural development in Ogbomoso South Local Government Area of Oyo State. Rural-urban migration is a phenomenon that most developing nations of the world are experiencing due to the gross neglect of the rural areas. In Nigeria, the issue of rural-urban migration is quite alarming owing to the discriminatory centralization of facilities in the urban areas as well as widening income gap between the urban and rural areas. This study adopted a descriptive survey research design while purposive sampling technique was used in selecting 300 from Ogbomoso south LGAs. The data collected was tested by using Pearson product moment correlation and ANOVA. The study established that self-help project had significant relationship with youth out-migration (r = .351*, N= 300, P < .05), community economy also had significant relationship with out-migration (r = .277*, N= 300, P < .05), care for elderly had negative significant relationship with out-migration(r = -.182*, N= 300, P < .05) and cultural practices also had significant relationship with out-migration (r = .198*, N= 300, P < .05). The study recommended that; government should decentralize its developmental projects and programmes in order to accommodate the rural areas. Government should make agriculture attractive for rural dwellers so that they could see it as a profitable occupation and there should be economic incentives to promote adaptation of indigenous skills and technologies in the rural areas.

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Job satisfaction of graduates of rural oriented medical students training project in Jiangsu Province, China: a cross-sectional study

BMC Medical Education ◽

10.1186/s12909-021-03074-z ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Wenjun Yan ◽

Xiuyin Gao ◽

Wei Wang ◽

Zhengyu Zhou ◽

Chao Zou ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Job Satisfaction ◽

Medical Students ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Work Conditions ◽

Economic Incentives ◽

Jiangsu Province ◽

Chinese Government ◽

Training Project ◽

Rural Physicians ◽

Group A

Abstract Background The Chinese government has worked out the “Rural Oriented Medical Students Training Project” to address physician maldistribution, which attempted to train physicians for rural areas. The present study attempted to evaluate the job satisfaction of the graduates of this project in Jiangsu Province, China. Methods Online questionnaires were sent to the graduates of the “Rural Oriented Medical Students Training Project” (group A) and their colleagues, who were rural physicians recruited from different sources (group B). The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Xuzhou Medical University, and the approval number was 2,018,057. Information on demographic characteristics, work conditions, and self-reported satisfaction was collected to compare the satisfaction differences between the two recruited rural physicians using the Chi-square test and Mann–Whitney U test. Additionally, factors correlated to the satisfaction of group A were assessed using multivariate linear regression. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS 23.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results Group A exhibited moderate satisfaction (2.81 ± 0.687). The satisfaction score from the highest to the lowest was for occupational ecology, life satisfaction, stress, competency, and internal environment. Positive factors related to the satisfaction of group A were area, monthly income, working hours per week, professional title, and post. Conclusion The satisfaction of the graduates of the “Rural Oriented Medical Students Training Project” was moderate. Factors related to satisfaction included economic incentives, workload, and professional confidence. Possible solutions for increasing satisfaction should consist of economic support and possible ways to improve the professional identification of these graduates.

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Culture-Oriented Credit Management in Rural Bank as the Driving Factor in Creating Financial Inclusion (Survey in Rural Banks in West Sumatera Province)

Proceeding of Community Development ◽

10.30874/comdev.2017.15 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 93

Author(s):

Hesi Eka Puteri ◽

Seflidiana Roza

Keyword(s):

Empirical Evidence ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Research Area ◽

Financial Inclusion ◽

Local People ◽

Local Culture ◽

Driving Factor ◽

Religious Leaders ◽

Credit Management ◽

Unit Of Analysis

This paper shows the empirical evidence about the implementation of local culture in credit management in Rural Banks. This paper is the result of a survey in three districts in West Sumatera Province which were chosen purposively. Sampling areas include Agam district, Lima Puluh Kota districts and Tanah Datar districts. The reason for choosing these three districts as a research area is because of the similarity of socio-demographic conditions and most of the Rural Banks are in this region. There were 38 Rural Banks taken as the unit of analysis in this research. This study reveals that the breadth of outreach varies according to the type of local cultured applied in credit management. Some of the policies include 1) Local cultured-based products and local culture-based services, 2) Involvement of customary or religious leaders, 3) Non-Traditional Collateral, 4) Prioritizing local people as marketing personnel and 5) Credit Assistance Services. Furthermore, this study recommends several policies which have proven to be able to expand the outreach and creating financial inclusion in rural areas, its covering involvement of customary / religious figures as mediator, prioritizing local people as personnel marketing and credit assistance services.

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