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IGNOU MED-04 (January 2024 – December 2024) Assignment Questions
1. Discuss the philosophy of the participatory approach. Discuss how participatory rural appraisal techniques are used in the development.
2. a) When was the Community Development (CD) Programme launched in India? What were the various ways in which it was the first of its kind to improve the people’s participation?
b) What are the various problems of departmental approach as in Pakistan’s development? Give any two important features of the Agha Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP).
3. What are the aims, mission and functions of SACEP? Give its organizational arrangement also.
4. With the help of a successful example of a women’s movement in protecting the environment discuss the role of women in environment and development.
5. a) Is hierarchy appropriate for organizing? In what way it may be lessened?
b) The following statement was made by a Chipko movement activist:
“….The women’s and ecology movements are therefore one, and are primarily counter-trends to a patriarchal maldevelopment.” What is your opinion on the above comment?
6. Describe how the model “Reversals in Learning” help farmers in sustainable and equitable development.
7. a) What are the different types of financial assistance received by SACEP?
b) What are the policy directives of the trends in policy in Joint Forest management?
8. Discuss how Orangi Pilot Project can help to build a model urban developed unit in our country.
9. a) How can Participatory Forest Management help in the development of both, the people living on the edge of forest and the forest.
b) Describe how tourism and urbanization are destroying the mountain ecosystem. Suggest what measures are to be taken for sustainable mountain development.
10. a) Differentiate between PIM and IMT.
b) How can coastal community’s participation help in ICM process?
c) What is the importance of wetland in our country and how it should be conserved?
IGNOU MED-04 (January 2023 – July 2023) Assignment Questions
Section I
1. What is the meaning of participatory management? Discuss the phenomenon of transition from the conventional to participatory approaches of management.
2. Explain the concept of community organization and its features and functions.
3. Why is change more successful in organizational set up of NGO, as compared to the private sector?
4. Give your views on participatory forest management and its importance in sustainable development and management.
5. Define coastal zone and its characteristics. Also make a map highlighting the coastal lines of India.
Section II
6. Describe good governance and its characteristics.
7. Explain the main objectives of Orangi Pilot Project (OPP) and its impact on sanitation and health.
8. Elaborate upon the key gender issues that need to be addressed while formulating a policy for women.
9. Discuss the important activities of two important projects of South Asia Co-operative Environment Programme (SACEP).
10. “Sustainable Development of Hindu Kush region will support the people of all the eight countries of the mountain area”. Elucidate.
