KIRD Offers an Invitational Fellowship Course:

Rural Village and Community Development(The 3rd Year Course)

May 24 ~June 6, 2018 ICC, KOICA, Seongnam

KOICA Multi-year Fellowship Program 2016-2018

Regional Development Policy for Mozambique

  The Korea Institute for Rural Development(KIRD)(President: Dr. Chung Ki Whan) offers a invitational fellowship course for the government of the Republic of Mozambique: Rural Village and Community Development - The 3rd Year Course of a KOICA Multi-year Fellowship Program "Regional Development Policy for Mozambique 2016-2018". Entrusted by the Korea International Cooperation Agency(KOICA), KIRD implements the course from May 24 to June 6, 2018 at KOICA, Seongnam, Korea. 

  The multi-year country fellowship program – Regional Development Policy for Mozambique - aims to help strengthen the capacity of high- and middle-level policy makers and practitioners in strategic planning and implementation for promoting sustainable regional and rural development. While enlightening the value and role of agriculture and rural development in the globalized world, the program was designed to help developing capacity for projecting strategies, making policies and planning investment for promoting regional and rural development as well as agricultural promotion of Mozambique.  

  The short-term fellowship course this year in 2018, the last one of the three-year fellowship program 2016-2018 aims more detail to help build capacity for projecting rural development program in village and community level. Seventeen(17) policy practitioners and rural development officers from a number of government authorities of Mozambique – The Ministry of Land, Environment and Rural Development(MITADER); The Ministry of Agriculture; The Ministry of Budget and National Planning – as well as several local governments of Maputo, Nampula, Inhambane, Zambezia, and Manica States take part in the course.

  Keeping a consistency of multi-year learning framework with the previous program course in 2016 and 2017, this year's course will focus on building capacity for projecting and implementing rural development projects and programs in the level of rural villages and communities in particular. The learning modules of the course are 1) to learn the basics of rural village and community development; 2) to study some cases of community-based rural village development planning and programming; and 3) to learn the practices of village development planning and implementation in the field.

  The core learning activities of this training program take place in Naehyun- Ri(Turtle Village) in Guhang-myeon(Sub-county), Hongseong-gun(County), Chungcheongnam-do(Province). During the four(4)-day program in Hongsung region we will share the Korea¡¯s experience of rural and community development in the village through on-site lectures, case studies, and field visits there. The Mozambiquan fellows are expected to deepen understanding on community development with participatory, rural grass roots approach, especially Saemaul Undong methodology, and also explore the possibility of applying Korea¡¯s mode of rural village and community development to Mozambique.