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IGNOU PGDESD MED-04 (January 2025 – December 2025) Assignment Questions
1. Discuss the PRA as basic tools for participatory management and how are these tools used in the development of participatory projects? Support your answer with a successful example of participatory management.
2. a) What were the main features of the British colonial administration and what were their results?
b) What are the various problems of representative approach as in Pakistan’s development? Give any two important features of the Agha Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP).
3. What are the different models of participatory management in South Asia? Elaborate any two of them.
4. Briefly give the details of Orangi Pilot Project.
5. a) Discuss the role of women in environment and development.
b) How does and institution differ from an organization in its structure and objectives?
6. Elaborate on the functions of youth in development work as suggested by the Common Wealth Youth Programme (CYP).
7. a) Describe the organizational arrangement of SACEP.
b) What is participation? Explain with suitable figures the participatory triangles.
8. Explain the ecological role of mountains also explain the “National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan” in India.
9. a) What are the roles of different agencies and institutions concerned with mountains towards sustainable mountain development?
b) What are the drawbacks of social forestry?
10. a) What is the importance of wetland in our country and how it should be conserved?
b) What are the characteristic of coastal zones?
IGNOU PGDESD 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?
