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Title: | The Planning and Management of Integrated Rural Development in Drylands: Early Lessons from Kenya's Arid and Semi-Arid Lands Programmes |
Author: | Wiggins, Steve |
Year: | 1985 |
Periodical: | Public Administration and Development |
Volume: | 5 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | April-June |
Pages: | 91-108 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Kenya |
Subjects: | rural development drylands Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1002/pad.4230050202 |
Abstract: | In Kenya a new generation of area-based, multisectoral rural development programmes has been started, targeted on the country's extensive arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL). The Government of Kenya policy paper 1979 defined the arid and semi-arid lands as those areas with between 200 and 850 mm of rainfall a year on average. The ASAL policy declares the strategy to be the improvement of the welfare of the populace by: 1) developing productive potential; 2) creating income-earning opportunities; 3) providing basic needs. By mid 1983, six ASAL programmes were operational, each supported by a foreign donor and implemented by the Government of Kenya. Six years after the detailed planning of the first programme began, the record looks patchy. Faced with obstacles, the ASAL programmes look set to run into continuing problems. - Fig., notes, ref., sum., tab. |