Governance In Rural Areas Research Articles

Impact of the Community Radio on Local Development in Chapai Nawabganj, Bangladesh

Community radio serves as a platform for rural, marginalized, and hard-to-reach populations to express and exchange views, ideas, and concerns with the wider community. Its increasing popularity in recent years has provided both policymakers and grassroots individuals with an avenue to engage in the development process of their communities. In Bangladesh, community radio stations now broadcast 170 hours of daily programs, with the majority aimed at addressing local development goals in rural areas. These programs motivate people, bridge gaps, and collaborate on agendas such as poverty reduction, reducing inequalities, promoting education, good health, clean water, and sanitation. Additionally, community radio has provided a platform for the poor and marginalized communities to raise their voices and become the voice for the voiceless. This study, conducted using participatory theory, aims to underscore the significance and impact of community radio on the development of marginalized community at Chapai Nawabganj, Rajshahi, Bangladesh. The findings indicate that community radio plays a crucial role in local development, providing essential information and bridging the gap between ordinary people and local government in rural areas. The current research was carried out in Chapai Nawabganj, Rajshahi, Bangladesh, with the support of the local community radio station, Radio Mahananda 98.8 FM. The study found that involvement in and awareness of Radio Mahananda programs significantly influenced local development.

Can information and communication technology drive effective spatial governance in rural areas? Emergency of e‐participation ecosystem from rural China

Can <scp>information and communication technology</scp> drive effective spatial governance in rural areas? Emergency of e‐participation ecosystem from rural China

Mobilization and Interaction: A Case Study of Rural Social Organizations Participating In Rural Governance in Ningxia

Purpose: In this section identified the real factors of which are doing the governance in rural areas of Ningxia. How the governance making goals of development with the help of social organization. This study f ounds the problems which social organizations are facing and people are doing interaction to them and participating in government activities. Design/Methodology/Approach:Here qualitative design was used with convenient sampling which used in Ningxia region. A semi structured in depth interview was conducted in selected areas. Researcher used the thematic analysis and standers questionnaires for the quality of research in selected region. Require respondents were the part of research with convenient sam pling approach in selected region. Findings: Ningxia rural social organizations' participation in rural governance as the entry point. This is based on the practical cases of Ningxia rural areas in selected areas. This paper found rural social organizatio ns' participation in rural governance with low interest. Result concluded that understanding and grasping the practical problems of rural governance in northwest China in the new era and exploring the valuable practices of rural social organizations' parti cipation in rural governance. Implications /Value/Originality:For the community development it is needed that local people’s participation in governance is compulsory. While governance organization should take serious actions for the rural areas of Ningxi a. Policy makers and government agents need to focus on these areas for the welfare and development.

Pollution Control and Well-Being in Rural Areas: A Study Based on Survey Data

Pollution control is of great value in order to achieve sustainable development and meet the needs of human development. This paper utilizes data from four rounds of longitudinal surveys conducted between 2012 and 2018 as part of the China Labor Force Dynamic Survey. Employing multiple linear regression methods, it empirically investigates the impact of pollution control on the well-being of rural residents. Empirical results show that even after accounting for individual, village, and family characteristics, pollution control significantly affects the happiness of rural residents. Notably, water pollution control emerges as having the most pronounced impact on rural residents’ happiness. Furthermore, pollution control enhances the well-being of rural residents by improving the village environment, fostering family harmony, and enhancing the physical and mental health of individuals. A heterogeneity analysis indicates that pollution control exerts a stronger influence on the happiness of residents in the central and western region and ordinary villages, while its impact is somewhat weaker in the eastern region. Addressing the pollution issue remains imperative, along with stimulating the endogenous drivers of rural ecological revitalization, enhancing the effectiveness of grassroots governance in rural areas, and continually bolstering the sense of well-being and happiness among the populace.

Examining the factors of interlocal economic development collaboration in rural areas

Understanding collaboration among local governments for economic development has been a significant research topic over the last few decades. However, because much of the literature has focused on urban and metropolitan areas, there is little evidence of the factors that influence collaboration among local governments in rural areas. To address this gap, this study examines interlocal economic development collaboration in three rural regions in West Texas, USA, by using a unique survey dataset of these regions. We employ an exponential hurdle model on a set of factors that are expected to predict the probability of and the extent to which cities in rural areas engage in collaborative activities for economic development purposes. We find that a combination of local business diversity, institutional support, and regional competition has a positive effect on the scope of collaboration among our sample of communities, whereas stronger fiscal capacity and greater economic development challenges decrease the extent of their collaboration.

Strategic management of rural areas in the context of decentralization

This article analyzes economic mechanisms and approaches to optimize rural governance and development, particularly in the context of ongoing decentralization reforms in Ukraine. Decentralization has given more budgetary and administrative powers to local governments in rural areas, allowing for policies that are more adapted to local conditions. However, local governments often lack the knowledge, skills, and resources to take full advantage of these opportunities. The study aims to identify strategies for strengthening governance and economic management of rural areas through improved financial planning, investment, use of technology, and human capital development. The aim is to provide recommendations for improving the efficiency, sustainability and equity of rural development processes.

Sustainable Endogenous Development Path Based on Rural Local Elite Governance Model: A Case Study of Xiamen

Under the background of the decline of rural society, the brain drain and the lack of endogenous development power are one of the main reasons restricting the development of rural China. Although village committees and village Party committees, as grassroots governance instictutions, have played a great role in the process of rural revitalization, it is still difficult to achieve effective governance in rural areas with only top-down bureaucratic power. Therefore, activating the vitality of local elites and promoting the bottom-up development of rural areas is the internal driving force of rural revitalization. However, local elites have neither the institutional power of grassroots cadres nor the same prestige as clan elders. Therefore, for local elites to gain effective governance power, they must go through a process of empowerment, that is, gaining recognition from various forces within the village. Taking the Yuanqian Community of Xiamen city in Fujian Province as an example, this paper analyzes the formation process of local elite power. In this process, local elites gained the trinity of administrative, social and economic empowerment, and became the subject of governance power and the leader of rural revitalization. A new rural governance network with local elites as the core was constructed in the Yuanqian Community. Under the role of the new governance network, the material space and industrial space of the village have been transformed, thus promoting the revitalization of the countryside. At the same time, the village gradually expanded its influence and eventually became a model village in the field of rural revitalization. Due to its growing influence, the Yuanqian Community has achieved sustainable development. The case of Xiamen shows that local elites could gain effective governance power through an empowerment process. Then, by reconstructing the rural governance network, local elites could be the important social foundation of rural sustainable endogenous development.

The Optimization of Power Operation Mode of Village-level Small and Micro Enterprises under the Background of Good Governance in Rural Areas

The Optimization of Power Operation Mode of Village-level Small and Micro Enterprises under the Background of Good Governance in Rural Areas

Tax and governance in rural areas: The implications of inefficient tax collection

AbstractWhile there has been increasing policy attention on broadening tax bases in low‐income countries, taxing citizens in rural areas often leads to neither revenue gains nor stronger accountability outcomes. Through case studies of Sierra Leone and Togo, we demonstrate that revenue collection in rural areas is highly inefficient, leading to little, if any, revenue gains after factoring in collection costs. Accordingly, we question the existing rationales for extending taxation to rural citizens in low‐income countries. Instead, we argue for a rethinking of the role of taxation in rural areas, considering the nature of social contracts and limited fiscal reciprocity.

Alleviating Relative Poverty in Rural China through a Diffusion Schema of Returning Farmer Entrepreneurship

Addressing poverty is one of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals. Alleviating relative poverty by stimulating the endogenous motivation of poor people to improve their ability for self-proliferation and diffusion is the focus of attention worldwide. China, as the world’s most populous country, has already left absolute poverty, and the vast rural areas are facing the challenge of managing relative poverty. We use the Delphi method to select three representative cases from the typical cases of rural entrepreneurship published by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and describe the diffusion process and poverty reduction effect of returning farmers’ ‘entrepreneurship’ through the whole process analysis method. We found that the entrepreneurship diffusion model based on returning farmers has a bright future and great potential to improve rural poverty. Using family and local ties and the internet, returning farmers can effectively spread their entrepreneurial experience to other poor households, lowering their entrepreneurial risks and barriers, and thus collectively bringing more farmers out of poverty. The entrepreneurship diffusion of returning farmers can increase farmers’ income, promote the employment and entrepreneurship of poor households and improve the rural ecological environment, thus alleviating the multidimensional poverty of farmers in economic, social and ecological aspects. This provides an experience and reference for developing countries to solve the problems of poverty, especially poverty governance in rural areas. It is worth noting that implementing the diffusion of entrepreneurship among returning farmers requires the support of appropriate policies and the active participation of local governments.

The Barriers of Co-Creative Service Development Models in the Context of Disadvantaged Rural Areas in Hungary

The paper is based on the observation of the process of reviving the forgotten culture of household economy, horticulture and livestock farming in disadvantaged rural areas and, through this, to develop a new service model for rural communities to strengthen the role of grassroots initiatives and enhancing the mechanisms of the co-operative model of local economy and democracy. Our research has shown that bottom-up models have several barriers to local governments in rural areas. The change in the political and governmental model of the last ten years has resulted in the restraint of local government autonomy and the vacancy of the role of local governments as public service providers. In this system, we can observe the strengthening of administrative dependence, the devaluation of the local elected political leadership (mayors) and the emergence of new rules of local power. In small settlements with less than 2,000 inhabitants, central state and political dependence intensified. Attempts to strengthen local communities have proved to be a major challenge in a highly centralised model of government. The present study gathers the factors that hinder the success of co-creative approaches in the local context and shows how the public service innovations organised by local governments are determined by the political and economic culture prevailing at the national level.

The Effect of Economic Potential and Social Heterogeneity on Electricity Distribution By Government in Rural Indonesia from 2005-2018

Indonesia is country that has a plural society. The plural society here is interpreted by the diversity of social identities, namely ethnicity, language, and religion. This study aims to analyze the effect of diversity of economic potential and the diversity of social identities on acess to electricity distribution provided by the government in rural areas of Indonesia. The data source used is secondary data, which are Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS-Statistics Indonesia) data on village potential, namely Potensi Desa (PODES) in 2005, 2008, 2011, 2014 and 2018. The analysis used is pooled cross section regression. The estimation results using Ordinary Least Square (OLS) found as follows. The OLS estimation found in terms of social diversity, the distribution of access to electricity outside Java is better than in Java. Meanwhile, based on economic diversity and geographical barriers and accessibility, villages in Java have better access to electricity than Non-Java.

Evolutionary game analysis of clean heating governance in rural areas of Northern China

The attainment of clean heating in the rural areas of northern China is of great significance for environmental governance and the realization of the dual carbon goal. Based on the evolutionary game theory, this study constructs a three-party evolutionary game model of the central government, local government, and farmers, introduces key parameters, such as the local government’s governance strength, central government’s inspection strength, and two levels of government subsidy strength, into the model, systematically deduces different possible strategy combinations of the three parties, and analyzes the possible scenarios and stability conditions of each scenario. Finally, the study numerically simulates each scenario and analyzes the influence of the key parameters on the strategies of the three parties. The study conclusions are as follows. 1) The system is optimized in Scenario 6 (1,1,0). 2) The strategy of the local government has a decisive influence on farmers, and the central government’s inspector strength has a weak effect on farmers. 3) The cost of clean heating over coal-fired heating has a significant effect on farm households but not on the two levels of government. 4) The low perception that farmers hold regarding the benefits of the indoor environment weakens the government’s subsidy effect. This study provides effective practical guidance and policy references for governments to promote clean heating in rural areas.

Collaborative Governance of Rural Relative Poverty under Blockchain and Back Propagation Neural Network

It aims at exploring the effect of coordinated relative poverty governance in rural areas based on blockchain and back propagation (BP) neural network, so that the living standard of rural areas can be significantly improved. In view of the shortcomings and defects existing in the rural relative poverty governance, artificial intelligence technologies such as blockchain and neural network are innovatively introduced to conduct intelligent storage and data visualization analysis on the rural relative poverty governance process. A visualized governance and mechanism innovation model of rural relative poverty data based on blockchain and BP neural network is constructed. Finally, its performance is analyzed through experiments. The results show that the accuracy of data visualization prediction of the proposed algorithm model reaches 94.31%. When the amount of data is 5.5 Mb, the calculation consumption of the proposed algorithm is 0.08 s, and the average leakage rate finally stabilizes below 10%. Therefore, the constructed poverty data visualization governance model can achieve good data transmission security performance while ensuring high classification accuracy. It can provide experimental basis and contribution for the intelligent development and mechanism innovation of rural relative poverty governance.

Unravelling the perpetuated marginalization of customary livelihoods on the coast by plural and multi-level conservation governance systems

In various parts of the world, rural and indigenous coastal communities who have a long history of relying on land and coastal resources that predates colonial times are threatened by an ever-expanding conservation estate. In South Africa, such communities have been “conserving” resources for a long time through customary systems of governance. However, these systems of resource use have been undermined by state-led multi-scalar and plural conservation governance interventions. State-driven conservation in South Africa tends to focus primarily on biodiversity and ignores the rights and needs of rural people, with conservation governance in rural areas failing to recognize bona fide customary governance systems. Instead, the institutions of traditional authorities, which are not always representative of the needs and views of wider rural populations, are regarded as allies in promoting exclusionary and oppressive forms of conservation. Using a case study research approach, this study uses the case of Kosi Bay in northern KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa as a lens to demonstrate that plural conservation governance systems that ignore local customary systems of marine resource governance result in conservation governance perpetuating the disenfranchisement of coastal communities.

Utilization of Agricultural Information by Poultry Farmers in Enhancing Productivity: The Case of Menengai West, Nakuru County, Kenya

Agriculture in Kenya has been one of the backbones of economic development in the country. Poultry farmers play a bigger role in contributing to this development. Poultry farmers utilize information for various reasons including; poultry disease management, protection, shelter, production, feeding and nutrition, hatching, marketing, breeds and breeding, and competition with crops. In Menengai West Location, Rongai Sub County, Nakuru, underutilization of agricultural information is seen as the possible cause of low productivity in poultry farming. The aim of this research was to evaluate the utilization of agricultural information by poultry farmers with a view of establishing challenges faced and proposing ways of improving production. The specific objectives of the study were; to find out the uses of agricultural information by poultry farmers; to identify factors influencing the use of certain agricultural information; to find out the awareness level of existing agricultural information by poultry farmers; to determine the effectiveness of agricultural information on poultry production and to establish the challenges faced by farmers in utilizing agricultural information. The study will benefit poultry farmers in Menengai West by enhancing utilization of agricultural information hence increasing productivity. The target population was 517 poultry farmers and the sample size for this research was 217 poultry farmers derived from the Saunder’s table of sampling. Two extension officers were also targeted. A pilot study was conducted in Njoro Sub County. The study was based on Eugene’s information society theory of 1979. Questionnaires and structured interviews were used for data collection. Television, radio and mobile phones were the commonly used sources of agricultural information in provision of poultry information. Inadequate agricultural extension officers and inadequate funds were major challenges faced by poultry farmers in utilization of agricultural information. The study concludes that there are gaps that exist in utilization of agricultural information. The researcher therefore recommended that the county government should employ more extension officers within Menengai West in order to reach out to poultry farmers, Agricultural resource centers should be set up by Nakuru County Government in rural areas to enable farmers in the location access agricultural information easily and within reach, establish partnership with agricultural institutions and county government to disseminate agricultural information and access veterinary services and the government need to improve mobile network connectivity in the area.

IMPLEMENTASI UNDANG-UNDANG NOMOR 6 TAHUN 2014 TENTANG DESA PADA PEMILIHAN KUWU DI KABUPATEN INDRAMAYU TAHUN 2021

Indonesia has the lowest government in rural areas which is called village administration. In Indramayu Regency, the village administration is led by a Kuwu. Kuwu is elected by the villagers through the kuwu election mechanism. The election of village heads has been regulated in Law Number 6 of 2014 concerning Villages. In 2021 the Indramayu Regency Government will hold Kuwu elections for 171 villages. The election for kuwu in Indramayu Regency must refer to Law Number 6 of 2014 but its implementation is faced with the conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic. How is the implementation of Law Number 6 of 2014 concerning Villages in the Kuwu election in Indramayu Regency? This is the problem that is discussed and used in this article. The aim is to find out the implementation of Law Number 6 of 2014 concerning Villages in the Kuwu election in Indramayu Regency during the Covid-19 pandemic. These problems have been researched using empirical legal research methods through observations and interviews. The results showed that the Indramayu Regency government modified the implementation of Law Number 6 of 2014 concerning Villages in the Kuwu election in Indramayu Regency according to the Covid-19 pandemic conditions. The results of this study contribute to the development of village government laws and research programs organized by Tarumanagara University

Elite Participation’s Path on Rural Governance: A Case Study in China

As an essential part of national governance, rural governance is directly related to the modernization of the country. Under the background of the new era, as an important backbone of rural governance, the "rural elite" play a particularly significant role. Given that, this paper analyzes the self-assessment of comprehensive quality of rural elites by introducing the Entropy-TOPSIS method. Then from the four dimensions of institutional foundation, role perception, public expectation and external thrust, we construct a Structural Equation Model (SEM) for path analysis to explore how elites participate in rural governance and major influencing factors. The results show that with continuous improvement of the institutional foundation, the public would hold higher expectation for rural elites. Besides, the improvement of external thrust and the creation of a good external environment can be potential triggers for elites to play a positive role in rural governance. We believe that our results are of great theoretical and practical significance for accelerating the modernization of rural governance system and national governance capacity and realizing favorable governance in rural areas.

Modernization of Public Service Governance in Rural Areas of China

Modernization of Public Service Governance in Rural Areas of China

The Bottom-Up Development Model as a Governance Instrument for the Rural Areas. The Cases of Four Local Action Groups (LAGs) in the United Kingdom and in Italy

The present research which originates from the author’s PhD dissertation awarded at the School of Politics of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 2019, explores the comparative evolution of rural development policies and Local Action Groups (LAGs) in the United Kingdom (Argyll and the Islands LAG—Scotland and Coast, Wolds, Wetlands and Waterways LAG—England) and in Italy (Delta 2000 LAG—Emilia-Romagna Region and Capo Santa Maria di Leuca LAG—Puglia Region) in a multi-level governance framework. LAGs and in particular their public–private local partnerships have become common practice in the governance of rural areas. This governance operates within the European Union LEADER approach as a tool designed to generate the development of rural areas at local level. In order to establish the implications of the LAG practices, the following main objectives for this research have been established: (1) to explore the utility of EU strategies for rural development; (2) to explain how LAGs structure, institutional arrangements and working are positioned in the layers of MLG framework; (3) to carry out a comparative evaluation of the LAGs working in the different nations and their subnational contexts. Some significant findings from the case studies are summarized in relation to these themes: the key characteristics and the outcomes associated with the LAG working mechanisms and what do we draw about the emergence, operation and performance of local partnerships. The core argument of the research is that the partnership approach has given the rural development actors a governance platform to help increase beneficial interactions and economic activity in each of these LAGs, but it is the bottom-up leadership of key local actors, seizing opportunities provided by the EU funding, which have been the most important factors for the LAG successes.