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01. E-course : Diploma in Integrated Development (Dip. Int. Dev.)

 

 

Quarter 1.

 

SECTION B : SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEMS.

 

 

Value : 06 points out of 18.

Work foreseen: 186 hours out of 504.

 

The points are awarded only after passing the consolidated exam for Section B : Solutions to the problems.

 


 

Third block : Solutions to the problems.

 

Value : 01 point our of 18.

Work foreseen: 36 hours out of 504.

 

[16.00 Hours] Section 1 : Anthropological analysis of the three levels of project structures. (Value 0.5 point)

[16.00 Hours] Section 2 : Division of responsibilities amongst the three levels of structures. (Value 0,5 point)

[04.00 Hours] Exam block 3.

 

The point is awarded only after passing the consolidated exam for Section B : Solutions to the problems.

 


 

[16.00 Hours Section 1 : Anthropological analysis of the three levels of structures. (Value 0.5 point)

 

[14.00 Hours] Anthropological analysis.

 

01. First level : hunter-gatherers. 

02. Second level : groups of clans with chief. 

03. Third level : states. 

04. General plan of an individual project. 

05. Management lines for individual projects. 

06. Regional plans. 

07. National plans. 

 

[02.00 Hours] Report on Section 1 of Block 3.

 


 

[14.00 Hours] Anthropological analysis.

 

06. Regional plans.  (At least 2 hours).

 

Look at the following slide :

 

2. Schematic drawing of a regional plan.

 

Dividing the population of a region (eventually that of an administrative district) by 50.000 gives the indicative number of individual projects necessary for global coverage of the entire region (or district). Once all the individual projects in a given region  (or district) have been completed, the Millennium goals there will not only have been achieved – they will have been surpassed.

 

The regional (or district) Plan involves the drafting of detailed individual projects for each of the areas with +/- 50.000 habitants there. These will have been identified  in advance on the basis of political territories, administrative structures, geological and morphological features, access structures, social factors including  language, religion,  race, economic activities, population distribution , and, above all,  on the preferences expressed by the populations.

 

In principle, subject to variations due to specific local requirements, the execution of each individual projects is independent from that of in other project areas. Where there is adequate initial funding, there is no reason why all the projects in a region (or district)  cannot be carried out contemporaneously, thereby creating the structures necessary for a good quality of life for all of the inhabitants of the region (or district) in the space of 2-3 years.

 

Where an order of priorities for the execution of individual projects has to be set up, the choice of the priorities is purely political in nature. Initiatives taken at the level of each project area could play an important role. Normally, rural areas in the poorest zones would be expected to get first priority.

 

Within the framework of regional (or district level) integrated development,  each individual project area forms a powerful, cooperative, interest-free, in principle inflation-free, local economic environment. Together the local economies form a strong regional (or district level) interest-free, in principle inflation-free, economy.

 

The relationship amongst the various individual projects within a region (or district) is one of strict equality. Each individual project area can have commercial relations  with the others in the region (or district)  It is important that these commercial activities take place on the basis of a reciprocal trading balance which tends to zero. This is to avoid financial leakage, important cause of poverty, from one project area to another. On this point review the notes you made on

 Section 1 of Block 1 : Analysis of the causes of poverty.

 

This section involves an general analysis of the main lines of regional (district level) integrated development structures.  You do not need to know at this stage how they are created. That is covered under Block 4 :The structures to be created  and under  Block 7 : Regional and national planning.

 

1. Research.

 

Prepared a hand-made sketch of the region (or district) where your project area is located. Using logic and  common sense and your knowledge of the territory, mark in the different individual project areas each with about  50.000 habitants.

 

2. Research.

 

On one page make a list of the chosen project areas and explain why you made those choices.

 

3. Research.

 

On one  page, supposing the individual projects can only be executed one by one, make an order of priority for the execution of the individual projects in your area, giving the reasons for your choice.

 

4. Research.

 

On one page, make a summary of the horizontal relations amongst the project areas. Indicate, amongst other things, measures taken to avoid that one area get rich at the cost of one or more others.

 

5. Opinion.

 

During your analysis of the Schematic presentation of an individual project in 1 of  Block 3 you described the possibilities of contemporaneous execution in parallel of many micro-projects closely linked with each other but the execution and management of which were independent of those of the other structures. On one page apply the same concept the contemporaneous execution of individual projects at regional (or district) level.

 



 Third block, section 1: Section 1 : Anthropological analysis.

 Third block : Solutions to the problems.


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