Regional and Rural Development Planning

Course Code
Course
Number of Credits
Description/Course Objective
Semester
ED77.01  Rural and Regional Development
3
 The main objective of the course is to provide knowledge on the key development challenges of the developing countries. It deals with the concepts and theories of development, poverty analysis, problems of education, health, aid, role of NGOs and civil society, and regional disparity in the developing world. Aug Sem
ED77.02  Social Research Methods in Development Planning 
3
 The course provides a research framework through scientific inquiry. It introduces basic concepts and techniques of social research. It also illustrates a research process covering both conceptualization and operationalization aspects. The research conceptualization includes problem statement, research questions, hypothesis and conceptual framework. The research operationalization comprises of design of operational indicators, various types of research design, sampling methods, primary and secondary data collection, and quantitative and qualitative analyses & techniques. Aug Sem
ED77.05  Rural Urban Relations
3
 The main objective of this course is to provide the conceptual and theoretical foundations of rural-urban relations in the context of regional development with case studies from Asian countries. This course integrates between the rural and urban planners/professionals to identify appropriate policy measures and programs in bringing balanced development. Jan Sem
ED77.06  Regional Planning Techniques
3
 The objective of this course is to strengthen the analytical skill for spatial planning. This provides applications of various quantitative techniques to point, line and area problems with right selection of data types. Mapping techniques are also covered and integrated with other quantitative techniques to display phenomena by point, line and area attributes. Location models of economic activities, various techniques and methods of regionalization, settlement pattern and locational analysis of service centres, gravity potential and interaction model, regional transport network analysis, and population projection techniques are the important components of this course. This course serves as a methodological training of the regional and rural development planners.  Aug Sem
ED77.08  Agricultural Development Planning
3
 Provide knowledge on issues involved in planning for agricultural development at various scales of analysis, the farm, the region and the nation. Aug Sem
ED77.11  Project Planning and Management
3
 Development project planning and management stand for a set of necessary skills for both researchers and practitioners who work in the field of development. This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to gain a comprehensive understanding of key concepts and essential skills to effective project development and management in development affairs. It aims to help students develop knowledge and skills in planning, designing, implementing, managing and evaluating projects.  Jan Sem
ED77.14  Community Development Planning
3
 There is a need to understand the current policies and practices on community focused work by the governments, non-profits and the business. It is also very important to understand the status of the disadvantaged communities like minorities, orphans, indigenous people etc. This course aims at discussing the current debates on community focused development and ways to improve the lives of the marginalised. Jan Sem
ED77.15  NGO Management, Policy and Development Administration
3
 NGOs and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) are playing an increasing role in development. This includes empowering the poor, doing advocacy for their rights, providing services which governments and business have failed. This course aims at generating knowledge about NGOs/CSOs and creating a pool of professionals and researchers who will work in and with NGOs. Jan Sem
ED77.17  Rural Regional Planning Workshop
4
 The course provides conceptual framework, techniques and methodology in rural and regional planning to analyze problems and formulate a local development plan and project proposals of the study area, involving the active participation of people at the grassroots level. The course participants will be encouraged to use their practical expertise and applications of theoretical knowledge in development planning acquired earlier in conducting the field study in the study area. Jan Sem
ED77.18  Sustainable Development Theories and Practices
3
 Making students aware of the basic principles of sustainable development, and enabling them to analyze sustainable development policies through the analysis of policies adopted by their countries. Aug Sem
ED77.19  Decentralization and Governance
3
 It is aimed to providebasic concepts, principles, practices and policy framework of political, administrative, economic and fiscal decentralization and governance to enable students to understand, analyze and apply them through policy implementation and in various regional and rural development programs and projects adopted by the countries in the region in practice. Jan Sem
ED77.20  Public Policy
1
 The course will provide the students with the concepts, categories and conceptual models on public policies and key actors involved in policy making process. The public policy process will be elaborated applying a variety of emerging conceptual frameworks for the examination of its respective strengths and limits. Key stages in policy development comprising of formulation and adoption, implementation and evaluation will be elaborated and discussed. An analytical framework of policy analysis will be given with practical exercise on regional and rural development policies. InterSem
ED77.9011  Selected Topic: Environment and Development
3
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ED77.9012  Selected Topic: Socio-ecological Systems Approach and Adaptive Governance
1
 The course aims to introduce an interdisciplinary perspective of adaptive governance in the light of social-ecological and environmental change and transformation. It introduces theoretical understanding and insight of complex social-ecological systems and the concepts of adaptive governance in socio-ecological systems in theory and practices. It will also examine practical case studies on how resilience and adaptive capacity building can be examined from the local perspective to the national and regional perspective. Special emphasis will be given to the evaluation and identification of learning processes and changes.  InterSem
ED77.9013  Selected Topic: Demographic Analysis, Policies and Contemporary Issues
3
 In order to examine sustainable development issues and design effective policy solutions, it is critical to gain basic skills in population analysis and understand key demographic challenges linked to development. To address these learning needs, this course provides an introduction to demographic analysis, policies and contemporary issues in population and development. Examples will be drawn primarily, but not only, from the South and South-east Asia region. Aug Sem
ED77.9014 Selected Topic: Project Planning Management
2
 Development project planning and management stand for a set of necessary skills for both researchers and practitioners who work in the field of development. This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to gain a comprehensive understanding of key concepts and essential skills to effective project development and management in development affairs. It aims to help students develop knowledge and skills in planning, designing, implementing, managing and evaluating projects.  Jan Sem
ED77.9015 Selected Topic: Rural Regional Planning Workshop
3
 The course provides conceptual framework, techniques and methodology in rural and regional planning to analyze problems and formulate a local development plan and project proposals of the study area, involving the active participation of people at the grassroots level.  The course participants will be encouraged to use their practical expertise and applications of theoretical knowledge in development planning acquired earlier in conducting the field study in the study area. Jan Sem