Our aim is to restore to the villages the power to meet their own requirements. Tagore

Human Development begins with local people in local communities. The residents of the 24 communities described in this booklet have demonstrated that human development is possible anywhere in the world. In these sites, local people are working in cooperation with both the public and private sectors to achieve economic self­sufficiency and social self­dependence. Each project begins with a week­long consultation during which residents and volunteer consultants from around the world share their expertise in building a plan to meet the community's needs. First, the consultation elicits from the community a picture of its hopes and dreams for the future. It then determines the major factors blocking this vision and designs practical proposals and specific tactics to ensure the implementation of the plan for comprehensive socio­economic development. Programs unique to each community are

created by residents and auxiliary staff. Rapid simultaneous initiation of the programs is one key to the successful launching of the projects. Communities in 20 nations have invited the: institute of Cultural Affairs to use this model in establishing pilot projects. The ability to achieve dramatic signs of socio­economic transformation in apparently hopeless situations is being demonstrated by local residents in all 24 projects. The first phase of a plan to systematically replicate the pilot model in 25,000 villages in some stage of program actuation at the end of a twelve month period. This demonstration has indicated that rapid development in multiple locations within a delimited geographical area is possible.

CANO NEGRO Apartado 8060 Caracas 101 Venezuela	HAI OU Box 00282 Kaobsinng 800 Taiwan Republic of China	IVY CITY 1900 Gallaudet N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002 USA	KWANGYUNG IL Box 88 Jeju City Jeju­Do 590 Republic of Korea	NAM WAI 11 OA Nam Wai Village Sai Kung District New Terr., Hong Kong	SUDTONGGAN Sudtonggan Basak Lapu Lapu City Cebu, Philippines
DELTA PACE Box 269 Pace, Mississippi 38764 USA	IJEDE Box 5017 Lagos Nigeria	KAWANGWARE Box 21679 Nairobi Kenya	LORNE de l'ACADIE Box 90, Lorne New Brunswick Canada EOB 1Z0	OOMBULGURRI Box 208 Wyndham W.A. 6740 Australia	SUNGAI LUI Ulu Langat Selangor Malaysia
EL BAYAD Box 30 Beni Suef Arab Republic of Egypt	INYAN WAKAGAPI Box 75 Cannonball, N. Dakota 58528 USA	KELAPA DUA Sabang Hotel Rm. 425 11 Jalan Agus Salim Jakarta, Indonesia	MALIWADA Box 100 Aurangabad 431001 India	OYUBARI Fusllimi­cllo, Kashima Yubari­shi 068­06 Japan	TERMINE Termine di Cagnano L'Aquila Italy
FIFTH CITY 410 S. Trumbull Chicago, Illinois 60624 USA	ISLE of DOGS 24 Prestons Road London, E 14 England U.K.	KREUZBERG OST Wrangelstrasse 83 1000 Berlin 36, Germany	MARSHALLS Box 396, Majuro Marshall Islands T.T.P.I. 96960	SHANTUMBU Box 1454 Lusaka Zambia	VOGAR General Delivery Vogar, Manitoba Canada ROC 3C0

The Institute of Cultural Affairs is an intra­global research and development, training and demonstration group concerned with the human factor in world development. The Institute presently has coordinating centers in Brussels, Nairobi, Bombay, Hong Kong, Singapore and Chicago and is registered in some 23 nations. The Institute is convinced that effective human development must be initiated on the local community level. Toward this end, its national and extra­national staff live and work with local people in planning and actuating socioeconomic projects around the world. The projects, located in both rural and urban communities of extreme need, are established for the purpose of demonstrating comprehensive human development. The work of the ICA is supported by private foundations, corporations, concerned individuals and government departments and agencies on the national, state and municipal levels.

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