Decentralization and managing rural development in Tanzania: the challenge ahead.
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1974
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University of Dar es Salaam
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The study argues that without proper inventories of the available utilizable resources, the planning exercise would always remain incomplete. But one cannot hope that the bureaucrat administrator, following the traditional administrative styles will find any necessity to take trouble of making a serious inventory of the resources. It is just outside the roles of his profession. For all these reasons it is necessary that the patterns of rural development must be changed. There is a need to give all the personnel concerned with rural development some education about the need for change. However this alone would be an incomplete exercise. What is needed is to have better institutional control mechanisms at the lower levels that facilitate the process of implementation and evaluation. A system can be instituted whereby the village leaders or cell leaders would register the time expended on productive projects by every member within their community, either weekly, monthly or any other agreed period. This course might be interpreted as impinging on the individials freedom however if we have to escape from what Gunnar Myrdal call the "dillemna of voluntariess" it will be necessary that there is an increase in social discipline in all states and even in the villages.
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Decentralization in government, Rural conditions, Politics and Government, Bukoba, Tanzania
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Baguma, R. (1974). Decentralization and managing rural development in Tanzania: the challenge ahead. Masters dissertation, University of Dar es Salaam. Available at (http://41.86.178.3/internetserver3.1.2/detail.aspx?parentpriref=)