Community-based Rural Development and the Politics of Redistribution: The Experience of the Gurage Road Construction Organization in Ethiopia

• NISHI MAKOTO

  Kyoto University

抄録

Since the 1990s, the idea of participation has become a popular norm in implementing development cooperation. Community-based organizations (CBOs) are widely thought to promote local democratic participation effectively in the development process. However, the potential relationship between CBOs and development agencies raises questions about the relationship between a CBO and the people whom it claims to represent. Determining whether the organization benefits only the local elite or provides a discussion forum among groups with different positions is critical. The Gurage Road Construction Organization (GRCO), which has been operating since 1962, is one of the most successful CBOs in Ethiopia. It was established in Addis Ababa as an association of Gurage migrants from southern Ethiopia to raise funds for the construction of roads and schools in their homeland. GRCO acquired a wide support base through negotiations with members of urban and rural communities. GRCO leaders sought not only to construct massive public works in their villages but also to develop alternative social relationships for the fairer redistribution of development funds.

収録刊行物

• Nilo-Ethiopian Studies

  Nilo-Ethiopian Studies 2008 (12), 13-25, 2008

  日本ナイル・エチオピア学会

キーワード

• community-based organization
• development
• ethnicity
• redistribution

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390287142241804032
• NII論文ID: 130007983642
• DOI: 10.11198/niloethiopian.2008.12_13
• ISSN: 18811175
• ISSN: 1340329X
• 本文言語コード: en
• データソース種別:
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