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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