August 2014

Innovative approach to decentralized planning for backward area development in India

The allocation of appropriate funds for any development sector is a major issue in which the three levels of rural development are involved, namely the Panchayats, its block and district. There is a huge disparity between the funds proposed under a bottom-up decentralized planning system from the Panchayat and block levels and the top-down release of funds from the district. The targeted beneficiaries are totally...

Author(s): Krishnendu Sarkar

August 2014

A study of tribal vs non-tribals – Culture and life of tribal population

  The Scheduled Tribes communities in India as well as in Orissa are characterized by economic and social marginalization, primitive existence, geographical isolation and educational backwardness. Tribal population is the aboriginal inhabitants of India who have been living a life based on the natural environment and have cultural patterns congenial to their physical and social environment. They have been...

Author(s): Naresh Rout

August 2014

Health extension program as innovative health care service: The socio-cultural factors affecting its implementation in Jimma Zone, South Western Oromia

  Ethiopia’s Health Extension Program is an innovative community-based health care service delivery system that emphasizes the construction of health posts at village level and assignment of trained Health Extension Workersto improve the prevailing high disease burden and mortality that Ethiopians suffer from. The main objective of the study was to assess the socio-cultural factors that affect the...

Author(s): Bisrat Tesfa and Nega Jibat