Participação comunitária e desenvolvimento rural: o caso da Sasakawa global 2000

Abstract

The present work presents the results of the research carried out on the issue or the problem of community participation in rural development projects carried out by the NGO Sasakawa Global 2000 confronted with the issue of the distribution of improved seed varieties as a credit to the Agricultural Association from the Mandruze Valley, in the Dondo district. The purpose is to analyze and demonstrate the mechanisms of interaction and the methods of participation adopted by the different actors involved in this process with a view to the development of this community. To this end, we raise the hypotheses that communities do not actively participate in the implementation of the Rural Development project adopted by SG-2000 because its low organizational level makes it difficult and weakens the existing interaction between them and the project, even more they do not participate in them because they do not feel they are an integral part of these because they are not given opportunities to express their concerns, difficulties and weaknesses and lastly when they receive the seeds free of charge they do not use them properly, hence the distribution of these as credit as a form of these start doing it. As for the methodological questions for data collection, we use the qualitative method, based on and supported by semi-structured interviews, also privileging observation. The analysis made it possible to conclude that the Vale do Mandruze Communities are not yet well involved in the project. The participation, with regard to the group's involvement, was of the passive type, the beneficiaries, although aware of their non-active and collaborative participation, are still not responsible for the path that the project has taken. Communities are not actively involved in the project's activities; according to some interviewees, the partners of the SG-2000 project do not disseminate information to the target group on the modalities of improved seed distribution, there is no effective coordination between the government, the community and the project. The absence of the community consultative method influenced the lack or low involvement of these in the activities carried out by the project.