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Researcher: Naimuzzaman Mukta
The research is being conducted in three villages in
southwestern and northern regions of Bangladesh, which
has undergone a self-development process by capitalizing
on the collective efforts of the poverty stricken villagers.
These exemplary experiences give the impetus and rationale
to study those villages. The major objectives are to
analyze the socio-economic status of the three villages
in terms of their achievements in utilizing people's
collective efforts, to understand the process of capitalizing
collective efforts, its development, application and
barriers encountered in the process that constrained
the upward spiral. To ensure the participation of local
people at every stage of the exploration and in developing
an action plan, the research process is following participatory
action research (PAR) methodology where people-researchers
are carrying out the whole research. The participants,
with the facilitation of an external animator, will
review and analyze the success and failure of their
development efforts undertaken so far in their respective
villages. The people-researchers will extract valuable
knowledge on development by making a comparative analysis
among the villages. The strengths and weaknesses of
the three villages will be exchanged for enriching the
knowledge and minimizing the gaps. At the end of the
research the collected information will be critically
reviewed and validated by the villagers so as to ensure
the people's ownership of the knowledge. The outcome
of the research is expected to develop a people's report
on the three villages, which might contribute as valuable
knowledge on poverty alleviation and rural development
for the rest of Bangladesh. The research is likely to
highlight probable socio-economic and political pitfalls
in the process of capitalizing and liberating people's
potentials to development. Analytical review of the
experiences of the three villages is expected to provide
insights into potential routes to development and poverty
alleviation in rural Bangladesh, since these villages
have gone through a pragmatic experimentation in search
of the routes already.
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