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PART IV - iMPLEMENTATION PLAN AND ARRANGEMENTS
A SunarLy Administiative Analysis and Proposed Project
Ocan.zation and Pocedua Arr'angements
As mentiuned earlier in this PP, the activities to be
undertaken under the NERAD scheme fall into the purview and
responioilitiss of several departments of the Thai Ministry
of Agriculture and Cooperatives (MOAC). Normaily, even
te-ng in the same ministry, these agencies operate quite
independently, which tends to reduce their effectiveness
wnen wcriing toward the common objective of improving the
wel;-tenqn of the poor iarmers. SUccess in introduction of
integrated prozects to increase government capability to
serve the farmers is strIl limited and not satisfactory
mai ,ly because old attitudes and wcrking methods still
prevail. Other ptcbiem areas discussed further in Annex
VIII) with current administration of many agricultural
development activities include j±) planning and implementation
of development activities by separate agencies
independent of each other with little or no cooperative
effort on :elated activities, 2) separate departmental
budget allocat~ons for activities rather than integrated
budgeting by projects, 3; insutficient supervision of
activities in the iield, (4; centralized decision making,
with little delegatior to the field, 00 few incentives to
reward performance
To improve the administrative system _t is now the
policy of the Thai Government to decentralize planning and
implementation zo the regions, ttus increasing the probability
of addressing effectively the needs and pnoblems of
particular areas.
In recognition of this policy and the problems it
responds to, the proposal toi the organization and procedural
arrangements toi NERAD Wi-I have an aiea-based focus
on efforts to coordinate and to decentralize agricultural
development activities
Existing units will be utilized as
much as possible in order to avoid duplication and
unnecessary waste,
1- Olanizatonal Arrangements
There are five levels of organizational arrangements
whic.h are neeaed in this project, i.e. at to~e national,
regional, provincial, district and tambo levels.