AP4124: Development Policies and Legislation

 Dear students,

Greetings and welcome to the online teaching of the Development policies and legislation module.This module seeks to introduce students to the basic concepts, theories and methodologies useful for rural planning, design and management of development programs including community based organisations and industrialisation.The key concepts include: livelihoods, design, logical framework, monitoring, evaluation, cooperatives, industrialisation, development plans, rural transformation and CBOs.

  Learning outcomes of this module

Having successfully completed the module, students should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Fundamental concepts of rural livelihoods, problems, constraints and challenges and how these impact on rural community development
• Linkage between community based organisations and industrialisation in rural areas
•  Rural planning and management tools
• The conceptual understanding of rural development and gender issues and develop skills to work on rural development issues

• How and why policies are made: why policies are needed, Who the policy participants are, how policy is implemented, and how they impact society
• Problems in and related to agriculture that merit policy consideration.
• Analysis the inter-relationships between agricultural, environmental and economic development policies in Rwanda

At the end of this module, students will also be able to:

• Design rural area development plans;
• Identify and analyse rural livelihoods;
• Manage agricultural cooperatives into viable institutions of development;
• Undertake transformations of rural societies through innovations
• Familiarise students with domestic agricultural and resource policy.
• Apply analysis skills to address policy issues affecting Rwanda

Course Developers/Facilitators

• Patrick Mugiraneza: Email: mupaty222gmail.com / Tel: +250-786529399
• Mary Kabarungi: Email: karumary@gmail.com/Tel: +250-788781634

References

Rural Development Planning Component

• Diakosavvas, Dimitris, ed. 2006. Coherence of agricultural and rural development policies, Paris: OECD.
• Blakely, Edward and Ted Bradshaw. 2002. Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice, 3rd edition. London: Sage Publications.
• Fitzgerald, Joan and Nancey Leigh. 2002. Economic Revitalization: Cases and Strategies for City and Suburbs. London: Sage Publications.

Development policies and Legislation

• Monke and Scott Pearson (1989)The Policy Analysis Matrix for Agricultural Development Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, USA. Required reading for the course: To be read as follows: order:Chaps 1, 3, 13 (p.p. 255-260) 2, 4, 5 & 13 all. Ch.6-12 reference
• Tweeton, L.  (1989)Agricultural policy Analysis Tools for Economic Development Westview Press
• Norton, D (1998)Agricultural Development Policy,Concepts and experiences, Wiley Productions
• Fitzgerald, Joan and Nancey Leigh. 2002. Economic Revitalization: Cases and Strategies for City and Suburbs. London: Sage Publications.
• MIFOTRA, 2005; Five Year Action Plan for Youth Employment Promotion (NAPPYE)
• ROR (2000).Rwanda Vision 2020.    Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning , Republic of Rwanda (ROR), Kigali
• UNCTAD, 2006; Investment Policy Review Rwanda (New York and Geneva)
• Murgatroyd, P et al, 2007; Rwanda Financial Sector Development Program, Draft Report (First Initiative)

Key websites and on-line resources

• http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/strategies/index.htm
• The World Bank main PRSP page with links to country documents, policy papers, etc
• http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/strategies/review/index.htm
• The World Bank site detailing the March 2002 IMF/World Bank PRSP Review
• http://www.worldbank.og/poverty/strategie/eview/goodpactices.htm
• http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/facts/prgf.htm
• http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/pogdsafricad2.en.pdf
• UNCTAD’s general assessment of the PRSP approach in Africa
• http://www.prspsynthesis.org/