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y imposing their own professional standards. I have, therefore, come to the conclusion that if the present professionals are to play important roles in development, then they should act as facilitators. In the village where I was building the temple, I was keen to see that the students should learn more about education not only from books but through actual experience. Hence, we continued to discuss together. Initially, the students hes- itated to touch the 'dirty mud' with their 'clean hands'. But seeing that I was very persistent, they came down into the soil. They helped me eagerly to make mud, mud bricks and carry stones for the temple. It was interesting to see that once they shed their hesitation, all the kids were playing in mud and expressing joy in seeing the mud bricks made. It was so simple that everyone could do it. They may have not realized this joy from their text books, the pursuing of which is to pass an examination once a year or so. Those who fail become 'pillars of death'. The temple got built in a short span of time with their participation and I, in turn, helped them in their classrooms. It was, in a sense, a per- fect match. Today, it is often heard in Nepal that such and such project did not meet its stated objectives although the project may have the most qualified and expensive professional expatri- ate and highly trained Nepalese professionals and, of course, a big budget. Although it is true that there are many reasons for a project failure, I am inclined to think that the professionals are partly to blane. They portray an image of a 'developer' to develop people as if they are objects, like when developing a land with ser- vices. They have failed to recognize that the centre of development is people themselves and, therefore, people's professional expertise is the foundation of all development on which further supports would be weak and short lived. This suggests the need to explore cultural dimensions of development in which people's tools, technology, know-how become the stepping stones for their development with their own efforts. An external professional may be able to facilitate these processes if they go back'to land, live with the people and learn with them. Such a professional, then, need not be a well trained American graduate but a village educated professional, one who understands the culture of the village; the potentials and its limitations and some knowledge about how to solve them locally by actually working with the people and participating in the change. Thus, a village educated professional will be most likely a villager himself. Because he is not expensive, we can have more of them. In fact, every village will have many village educated professionals who are farmers, educators, facilitators all com- bined into one. You may say, then, that he is not a professional anymore. I would agree. He will be a villager first and last but with a difference: a villager who is now self- reliant, more creative and more political.
REGENERATIVE ZONES REGENERATING THE UNITED STATES ECONOMY THROUGH GROWTH IN REGIONAL AND LOCAL SELF-RELIANCE by Medard Gabel and Robert Rodale The Cornucopia Project 33 East Minor Street Enunaus, Pennsylvania 18049, USA Original language: English Abstract: Starting from a critique of conventional planning and its results ('the mess we are in'), the authors offer an alternative focus- sing on local self-reliance in substance and participatory planning in method. The basic idea is to do more with less material resources and to match local needs with local means. The regenerative technology is in tune with nature and information intensive. The authors describe regenerative programs and work out two indices (vitality index and regnera- tive index) to measure progress from or towards the regeneration of a zone (in the full paper, somewhat abridged here due to lack of space, the indices are illustrated in great detail). A method of planning is outlined where planners are more facilitators than 'authorities'. ZONES REGENERATRICES - REGENERER L'ECONOMIE DES ETATS-UNIS PAR L'AUTONOMIE REGIONALE ET LOCALE Resume: A partir d'une critique de la planification conventionelle et de ses resultats, les auteurs offrent une alternative centres sur l'autonomie locale quant 5 sa substance et la planification participee quant 5 sa methods. L'id6e fondamentale est de faire plus avec moins de ressour- ces materielles et de satisfaire les besoins locaux avec les moyens locaux. La technologie regeneratrice est en harmonie avec la nature. Elle comporte une forte intensit6 d'information. Les auteurs decrivent des programmes reg6nerateurs et Glaborent deux index (index de vitalise et index de regeneration) pour mesurer l'approche ou l'eloignement de la regeneration d'une zone. 11s esquissent une methode de planification dans laquelle les planificateurs se voient come facilitateurs et non come 'autorit6s'. ZONAS REGENERADORAS - REGENERATION DE LA EcONOMfA DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS MEDIANTE EL DESARROLLO DE LA AUTONOMlA REGIONAL Y LOCAL Resumen: Partiendo de una critica a la planificacion conventional y a sus resultados ("el caos en que nos encontramos"), 10s autores ofrecen una alternativa basada, en su esencia, en la autonomfa local, y en cuanto a1 metodo, en la participation en la planificaci6n. La idea fun- damental es hacer m5s con menos recursos materiales y satisfacer las
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