[Country Fellowship Program] Strengthening the Management and

Planning Capacity in Rural Development

: Projecting Rural Development Program in Village and Community Level (The 3rd Year Course)

July 6 (Thu.) ~ July 19(Wed.), 2017 Republic of Korea

The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has entrusted the Korea Institute for Rural Development (President, Dr. Chung Ki Whan) to develop the Invited Training Program "Strengthening the Management and Planning Capacity in Rural Development – The 3^rd Year Course: Projecting Rural Development Program in Village and Community Level.” This program will be held for two weeks from July 6 to July 19, 2017. 20 rural development officers from Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development will participate.

This training, held during the last three years of the "Multi-Year Fellowship Program," will focus on village-based rural development. The third Afghanistan Rural Development Policy Training Seminar in 2017 will be followed by the first year of "Building Rural Development Policies and Strategies" in 2015 and the second year(2016) of "Rural Development Major Program Development Programming." This will include rural development projects at the village level, focusing on field trips.

The core learning activities of this training program take place in Nae Hyun Village (Turtle Village) in the Hongseong area, one of the village in cooperation with Chungnam Institute. Located in Guhwang-myeon, Hongseong-gun, Chungcheongnam-do, this village is a typical rural village centered on paddy fields and farms. However, it is also a model village where resident-based community development is actively carried out by utilizing local historical and cultural relics and resources, as well as the development of local agricultural products.

The Afghan training group will learn the basics of village development through lectures and then learn the realities of village development while staying in the inner village area for three days. They will conduct a practical village development plan and learn how to implement the plan in a specific way at the village site. They will also conduct village exploration with a village development case study, and practice their own village development plan.

Afghanistan is strengthening efforts to promote domestic rural development by benchmarking rural development cases in Korea. This year's training course is expected to enable the training staff to learn about the usefulness of rural village development in Afghanistan, through dynamic learning about the implementation of participatory village development projects in rural communities.