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THE IMPACT OF UPPER NOUN VALLEY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY [UNVDA] ON THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF NDOP CAMEROON

초록/요약

Over the years, the Cameroon government has been making effort to increase rural development through development agencies such as the UNVDA, but attaching very little importance to resource management. These studies adopt an interdisciplinary approach to provide an account of why Ndop is still backward in terms of socio- economic development. The studies assumes that rural development enhance socio-economic development in rural areas and empowers an appropriate framework for responding efficiently to the needs of the local populace. By this perspective, empowerment can boost development by providing capacities, values, and avenues for local people to fully participate in decision making and any meaningful efforts towards improving their lives. This thesis hopes to analyze the role of development authority agency UNVDA in increasing rural development in Cameroon. It hope to bring out evidence on the Impact of UNVDA in the socio-economic development of Ndop this will be analyze using the quantitative approach and also using the comparative model. The study reveals that in Cameroon there is decentralization without empowerment and secondly rural masse are still not empowered therefor do not participate fully in the development of Ndop.

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CHAPTER ONE 1
GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1
1.1. INTRODUCTORY NOTE 1
1.2. PURPOSE OF STUDY 2
1.3. PROBLEM STATEMENT 3
1.4. RESEARCH QUESTION 3
1.5. HYPOTHESIS 3
1.6. METHODOLOGY OF STUDY 4
1.7. LIMITATION OF STUDY 4
CHAPTER TWO 5
LITERATURE REVIEW 5
2.1. INTRODUCTION 5
2.2. CONCEPT OF AGRICULTURE 7
2.3. AGRICULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY IN NDOP. 8
2.4. CONCLUSION 8
CHAPTER THREE 10
DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY [UNVDA] AS AN AGENT OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NDOP 10
3.1. INTRODUCTION 10
3.2. BACKGROUND ON THE AREA OF STUDIES NDOP CAMEROON 11
3.3. BRIEF HISTORY OF UNVDA 13
3.3.1 It Specific Objectives Are; 13
3.4. THE IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW CROPS AND THEIR IMPACTS 15
Table 1: Expansion of Rice Fields in Ndop. 16
Table 2: Number of farmers involved in rice cultivation 17
3.5. INTRODUCTION OF ORGANIC FARMING. 18
3.6. THE URBANIZATION OF NDOP 19
3.7. SOME EFFORT BY THE GOVERNMENT TO BRING ABOUT RURAL DEVELOPMENT 20
3.8. FAILURES OF THE GOVERNMENT 22
3.9. CONCLUSION 23
CHAPTER FOUR 25
COMPARISON BETWEEN UTZ CERTIFIED PROGRAM AND THE ACTIVITIES OF THR UNVDA CORPORATION. 25
4.1. INTRODUCTION 25
4.2. COMPARISON OF UTZ CERTIFIED PROGRAM AND THE ACTIVITIES OF THE UNVDA CORPORATION. 26
4.3. LABOR STANDARDS 26
4.4. ENVIRONMENT 27
4.5. ANTI-CORRUPTION 28
4.6. CONCLUSION 28
CHAPTER FIVE 30
MAJOR GAPS IN THE ACTIVIES OF UNVDA 30
5.1. INTRODUCTION 30
5.2. CENTRAL GOVERNMENT SUBVENTION. 30
5.3. ABSENCE OF AN OFFICE IN THE NDOP DIVISION 31
5.4. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT 33
5.5. LACK OF PERSONNEL AND JOB SATISFACTION. 34
5.6. LOSS OF EMPLOYMENT AND RURAL EXODUS. 35
5.7. MORE LABOR INPUT FOR LOWER OUTPUT 35
CHAPTER SIX 37
6.1. INTRODUCTION 37
6.2. DICCUSSION, RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSION 37
6.3. RECOMMENDATION 38
6.3. CONCLUSION 39
REFERENCES 40

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