Brief presentation (information are from the web)

1. RURAL DEVELOPMENT
APPROACHES AND
STRATEGIES

2. Rural Development
http://sergiomenendez.com/smart-rural-businesses/

3. “The World Bank’s activities in rural areas have related
mainly to lending for agriculture in developing countries”,
World Bank 1975
“The World Bank Group works in every major area of
development. We provide a wide array of financial
products and technical assistance, and we help countries
share and apply innovative knowledge and solutions to the
challenges they face.” World Bank 2021

4. Who owns World Bank Group?
Unique global partnership: five institutions working for sustainable solutions
*REDUCE POVERTY
*BUILD SHARED PROSPERITY

5. Five Institutions

6. World Bank PH Projects (338)
• 27 are active
• 26 are dropped
• 268 are closed
• 17 are pipeline
• Reference:
https://projects.worldbank.org/en/projects-
operations/projects-list

7. 2. COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION

8. Community Organizations in Rural
Development
CO or CBOs seen as effective vehicles to transform
peoples' lives and in promotion of sustainable development
because they apply integrated, people centered,
participatory development approaches through organizing
and mobilizing communities into action.

9. 3. INTEGRATED RURAL
DEVELOPMENT (IRD)
IRD can be categorized into two different types due to
its function in rural development practices:
• First, IRD is defined as a strategy (Aminuzzaman, 1982;
Fee,1985)
• Second, IRD is specified as a rural development
project or program (Cohen, 1980; Indrawati,
2014;Yudelman, 1976).

10. Different Types of IRD
Target-oriented
Comprehensive and multisectoral
Decentralization
Community centered
Participatory, and/or community based
Multisectoral infrastructure improvement

11. IRD in the Philippines

12. 4. COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT
• Cooperatives play a major self-help role in rural areas,
particularly where private businesses hesitate to go and
public authorities do not provide basic services. They are
instrumental in providing opportunities for productive
employment, as well as offering health care, education,
potable water, improved sanitation, roads, and market
access, while giving a stronger “voice” to rural groups.
• Create opportunity for employment, income generation,
and increase the availability of goods and services, all of
which also contribute to economic growth; and Stimulate
performance and competitiveness, as their members are
also the beneficiaries.

13. • The first rural credit association that was organized
under this Law was the Agricultural Credit Cooperative
Association of Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija. It was formed
on October 18, 1916. With this initial organization farmers
in different provinces were organized. At the end of 1926
there were 544 rural credit cooperatives organized in 42
provinces and by 1930 there were 571 associations
formed all over the country.

14. Marketing Cooperatives
• As soon as the organization of rural credit cooperatives was in
full swing, The Cooperative Marketing Law (Act 2425) was
enacted and approved on December 9, 1927. The rural credit
associations were designed to help finance the efforts of the
farmers for more production. Wherever rural credit associations
were, cooperative marketing societies were also designed to
be present. The apparent weakness of the rural credit
cooperatives, however, failed the enthusiasm of farmers to
organize themselves into cooperative marketing associations.
By 1939 only 164 societies were actually organized with a total
membership of around 5,000 farmers. With this number only 35
reported their sale of products to the Bureau of Commerce.
The number of associations reporting indicated that only 20%
of the organized associations were active.

15. ACCFA
• In recognition of the strategic position occupied by our farmers in the
social structure and economic development of the country, the
Philippine Congress enacted Republic Act 821 in 1952. This law
established a system of liberal credit which is specially designed to
meet the needs of the small farmers. It also created an administrative
agency known as the Agricultural Credit and Cooperative Financing
Administration (ACCFA). To implement the great task of rural
financing, four general and interrelated objectives of the law were set
forth as follows:
• To assist small farmers in securing liberal credit.
• To promote the effective groupings of farmers into cooperative
associations.
• To establish an orderly and systematic marketing machinery for, and
controlled by, the small farmers.
• To place agriculture on a basis of economic equality with other
industries.