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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.

 

07. National plans.  (At least 2 hours)

 

Look at the following slide:

 

Schematic drawing of a National Plan.

 

Most countries are divided into regions (or districts, or provinces), or in other autonomous administrative divisions below the level of the state.

 

Such a system was already foreseen in the preceding section 06. Schematic drawing of regional plans.

 

By preparing a Regional (or district level, or provincial) plan for each region, district or province, global integrated development coverage can be obtained at national level. Once all the regional (district, provincial) plans have been executed, the Millennium Goals will not only have been met, they will have been surpassed.

 

The National Plan therefore comprises the drafting of regional projects for each of the regions, districts, or provinces in the country in question.

 

In principle, subject to variations due to specific regional requirements, the execution of each regional plan is independent from that of in other regions. Where there is adequate initial funding, there is no reason why all the regional plans cannot be drafted contemporaneously. All of the individual projects forming each of the regional plans could also be executed contemporaneously, thereby creating the structures necessary for a good quality of life for all of the inhabitants of the country 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 regional level could play an important role.

 

Within the framework of national integrated development, each individual region forms a powerful, cooperative, interest-free, in principle inflation-free, regional economic environment. Together the regional economies form a strong national interest-free, in principle inflation-free, economy.

 

The relationship amongst the various regional plans within a country is one of strict equality. Each region can have commercial relations with the others in the country  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 national 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.

 

Obtain a political geographical map of your country indicating  its regions and political sub-divisions. On one page make a list of the regions. Next to them note their populations.  Next to the populations, divide the populations by 50.000 to arrive at the number of individual projects required.

 

2. Research.

 

On one page, supposing that the proposed regional plans cannot be drafted simultaneously, set up an order of priority for their preparation, explaining the reasons for your choice.

 

3. Opinion.

 

In the preceding section on 06. Regional plans you explained how individual parts of a regional plan could be executed contemporaneously, yet independently one of the other. On one page apply the main concept to the contemporaneous execution of regional projects within the framework of a national plan.

 

At the beginning of this section 1 of Block 3, an analysis was made of the three anthropologically based  administrative levels used for integrated development projects, being  First level: hunter-gatherers  (base)  Second level : groups of clans with chief (intermediate) and Third level: states (top level).

 

4. Opinion.

 

On one  page draw a parallel between that concept and local, regional, and national levels.

 

5. Opinion.

 

On one  page, suppose that all projects at regional level, for all regional plans, and therefore the national plan, were to be put into execution contemporaneously. Describe the situation that would present itself and its consequences.

 

    Once you have completed your exercises, you can proceed with the preparation of your Report on Section 1 of Block 3.

 



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

 Third block : Solutions to the problems.


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