Community Organization and Rural Development: A Learning Process Approach

Korten, David C.

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“…Korten's (1980) seminal work on the learning process approach highlighted that technological innovations for development projects were much more likely to be successful if there was room for learning not only from successes but especially from problems throughout the project.…”

Section: Family Resemblances: Insights From Related Research Fieldsmentioning

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Limits to responsible innovation

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Pols

Romijn

2016

Journal of Responsible Innovation

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Responsible Innovation (RI) is a young field of research that has nevertheless had remarkable successes in dissemination within academic and political circles. However, there is relatively little awareness of its limits, blind spots and situations in which it cannot be used for actual innovation trajectories. Without such awareness, there is a risk that RI may get hollowed out and turned into a tool for 'greenwashing'. To examine RI's limits, we present a case study on biofuel innovation in Hassan, South India. This case study demonstrates that there are important barriers that may make it difficult to conduct innovation according to RI values. In particular, we highlight the following factors that emerge from our case study and need more attention in order to be included and adequately theorised in the RI literature: material barriers to innovation, engagement with abandoning or reducing existing practices as a consequence of innovation, power differences and dependencies, (un)clear demarcation of responsibilities, strategic behaviour and, lastly, different, diverging and even contradictory interests. We demonstrate that such factors may obstruct the possibility to innovate in a responsible way, leading us to our core observation that RI should be about innovating responsibly -or not innovating at all. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Family Resemblances: Insights From Related Research Fieldsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Limits to responsible innovation

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Romijn

2016

Journal of Responsible Innovation

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“…Sebagai pedoman, maka ini kurang memberi arahan yang cukup. (Korten, 1980). Panduan yang disampaikan dalam Permentan ini lebih sesuai jika disebut dengan proses pembentukan, bukan proses penumbuhan.…”

Section: Pendekatan Pembentukan Penumbuhan Dan Pengembangan Kelompounclassified

Kelemahan Konsep dan Pendekatan dalam Pengembangan Organisasi Petani: Analisis Kritis terhadap Permentan No. 273 Tahun 2007

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2016

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Agricultural Minister's Regulation No. 273/2007 is the policy used by the field workers for organizing the farmers. Besides increasing in number, the current farmers' organizations are less developed due to weaknesses and faults in applying the concept of this regulation. Weaknesses of the regulation are faults in applying the concept of institution, organization, campaign, and PRA (Participatory Rural Appraisal). The guideline related with developing farmers' groups and federations of farmers groups is shallow, less detailed, and loose. It is also not based on existing knowledge in terms of organizing and empowering farmers. After more than five years, it is necessary to improve this regulation through proper application of institutional sociology in which organization is one of the main concerns. Agricultural Minister's Regulation No. 273/2007, institution, organization, farmers Key words: ABSTRAKPermentan No. 273 tahun 2007 merupakan kebijakan yang menjadi pedoman pokok tenaga lapang dalam mengorganisasikan petani dalam pembangunan. Kondisi organisasi yang saat ini kurang berkembang sesuai harapan, meskipun secara kuantitas terus meningkat, disebabkan oleh berbagai kelemahan dan kekeliruan dalam penggunaan konsep dan pendekatan yang tercantum dalam Permentan tersebut. Para pelaksana mulai dari pusat sampai ke daerah dan lapangan tidak menyadari kelemahan ini, sehingga hasil usaha mereka kurang efektif. Kelemahan yang ditemukan adalah kekeliruan dalam penerapan konsep lembaga, organisasi, advokasi, dan PRA. Pedoman yang dipaparkan berkenaan dengan penumbuhan dan pengembangan kelompok tani dan Gapoktan cenderung dangkal, kurang detail dan longgar, serta tidak bertolak atas pengetahuan yang sudah ada berkenaan dengan pengorganisasian dan pemberdayaan petani. Setelah berjalan Setelah lima tahun semenjak dikeluarkan, kondisi organisasi petani di Indonesia masih banyak menghadapi masalah. Meskipun jumlah organisasi petani secara administratif meningkat, namun kelompok-kelompok tersebut tidak berkembang sesuai harapan, sehingga tidak mampu mendukung pencapaian tujuan program. Satu penelitian yang cukup luas cakupannya yang dilakukan di Indonesia, menemukan bahwa petani yang berada dalam organisasi formal sangat sedikit. "More advanced rural producers' organizations can be found, though in very limited number" (Bourgeois et al., 2003). Jika pun ada, kapasitas keorganisasian mereka lemah. Hal ini bahkan telah menjadi faktor utama yang menyebabkan kegagalan pelaksanaan program secara keseluruhan (PSEKP, 2006). Banyak studi membuktikan bahwa tidak mudah membangun organisasi petani (Hellin et al., 2007), karena petani cenderung merasa lebih baik tidak berorgansiasi (Stockbridge et al., 2003).Akar penyebabnya adalah karena kurang dihargainya inisiatif lokal atau proses yang tidak terdesentralisasi (Taylor dan Mckenzie, 1992), pendekatan yang seragam (blue print approach) (Uphof, 1986), serta kurang mengedepankan partisipasi dan dialog (Amien, 2005). Partisipasi yang berlangsung masih bersifat searah atau baru ...

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“…The concept also includes high levels of managerial flexibility and longer intervention periods (Rondinelli, 1993); it includes involvement of local institutions and 'capacity building', local autonomy of action and the fostering of innovation within organizational cultures of 'new professionalism' (Chambers, 1993). Finally, and above all for our purposes, a process approach depends on a capacity for continual learning so that problems can be identified and efficiently dealt with on an expanding scale of operation (Korten, 1980). The LAST method has been developed as part of an integrated Process (Formative) Evaluation Management Information System to support the ongoing learning within the UK Department for International Development (DFID) supported (Western and Eastern) Indian Rainfed Farming Projects (Bond and Mukherjee, 2000;Bond and Kumar, 2001;GVT/DFID, 2000).…”

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Livelihood asset status tracking: an impact monitoring tool?

Bond

Mukherjee

2002

J of Intl Development

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This paper raises the issue of what kind of monitoring system can serve the learning needs of livelihood improvement projects which follow a process approach. It is concerned, in particular, with monitoring not only achievement of planned project outputs, but also with higher level project impacts normally needed to achieve project purpose or goal. A simple and rapid method to track the livelihood asset status at the household level is introduced. It is based on local perceptions and converts qualitative judgement to quantitative analytical data. Some initial field results are discussed along with problems, possible solutions, points for best practice and further research possibilities.

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Community Organization and Rural Development: A Learning Process Approach

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Limits to responsible innovation

Kelemahan Konsep dan Pendekatan dalam Pengembangan Organisasi Petani: Analisis Kritis terhadap Permentan No. 273 Tahun 2007

Livelihood asset status tracking: an impact monitoring tool?

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