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1 Mayfield, J. B.; Naguib, M. 1984. Developing local farmer organizations: A theoretical perspective. Cairo: Egypt Water Use and Management Project. v, 36p. (EWUP technical report no.68)
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Developing water users' associations, or any other type of farmer organizations, results in the adherence by change agents to particular theoretical parameters. One theoretical foundation of an organization is the development of participatory leadership. The development of leadership is a continual process emphasizing the components of motivation, action, consequence and reaction. A well-functioning leadership group facilitates cooperation between the villagers and government agencies, develops training programs to teach the people to become more reliant, generates income to finance programs and performs needs assessments and solutions to problems in order to motivate the people to cooperatively perform the necessary tasks. Change agents, called rural extension facilitators, work to develop the leadership by developing awareness among population, practicing activities and internalizing the concept of cooperative action among the group members. These theoretical parameters are discussed in this paper with the purpose of sensitizing individuals involved in organizing farmers as to some fundamental conditions which affect how such organizations are developed.
2 Mayfield, J. B.; Naguib, M. 1984. The administrative and social environment of the farmers in an Egyptian village. Cairo: Egypt Water Use and Management Project. v, 46p. (EWUP technical report no.69)
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Any major new idea or activity introduced in a village must first be filtered through the local leadership of that village. The following report explores how that leadership structure in an Egyptian village setting may be understood. First, the formal governmental organization network at the village level is described and an analysis of how a particular village participates in that organizational structure is presented. Next, a methodology is introduced to extract specific village personnel who serve as legitimate authority figures in the
3 Mayfield, J. B.; Naguib, M. 1984. Administering an interdisciplinary project: Some fundamental assumptions upon which to build. Cairo, Egypt: Egypt Water Use and Management Project. v, 23p. (EWUP technical report no.14)
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An interdisciplinary project evolves around a set of fundamental situations which are present from the beginning of the project. These situations are as follows: (1) there are contrasting working perspectives between the technical experts of the project and the extension experts. (2) there are different perceptions regarding the involvement of farmers in the project, (3) there are different communication patterns which a project may follow, and (4) there are specific staff/farmer patterns which can emerge in the work of the project. Each situation is described in this report and the consequences for selecting the different aspects of each situation are presented. All interdisciplinary projects need to take into consideration the above mentioned situations and what choices the projects make will influence the outcome of the project's work.
4 Mayfield, J. B.. 1974. Local institutions and Egyptian rural development. Ithaca, NY, USA: Center for International Studies. Cornell University. [vii], 144 p. (Special series on rural local government no. 3)
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5 Mayfield, J. B.; Naguib, M. 1980. Farmer involvement and participation: A new strategy for leadership training and development. In Mayfield, J. B; Naguib, M., The challenge of implementing an irrigation program in an Egyptian village: Organization development and leadership training needs in the EWUP. Cairo, Egypt: EWUP. pp.72-85. (EWUP staff paper 56)
Irrigation programs ; Farmer participation ; Leadership ; Training ; Rural development ; Water user associations / Egypt
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