Research Reports
In-depth Evaluation of Improvement of Quality of Life for Farmers and Fishermen and Rural Development Scheme
-
AuthorSeong, Jooin
-
Publication Date2011.12.30
-
Original
The purpose of this research is to evaluate policy groups included in Improvement of Quality of Life for Farmers and Fishermen and Rural Development Scheme. A policy group means a series of programmes or projects concerning a particular objective(There are 22 policy groups about 7 subjects in the scheme). For the year 2011, we evaluated two policy groups; ① Making better use of urbanites and people moving into rural areas, ② Supporting social welfare of the vulnerable in rural areas. The evaluation follows the phases of 'policy formation' 'policy execution' - 'policy outcome'. From the result of evaluation, we suggest improvement of concerning policies.
This research largely consists of two parts. Part 1 is the evaluation part of 'Making better use of urbanites and people moving into rural areas', part 2 is the evaluation part of 'Supporting social welfare of the vulnerable in rural areas'. In order to evaluate the concerning policies, we set up the evaluation framework and the major considerations of each evaluation phase are as follows.
·Policy formation: appropriacy of the objective of the policy group, appropriacy of policy means to achieve the objective
·Policy execution: implementation system of the concerning policy group, efficiency of the executive process
·Policy outcome: result, outcome and ripple effect of the policy group
We used research methods such as literature reviews, statistical analyses about concerning programmes/projects and case studies of three municipalities(Geumsan-gun, Gochang-gun and Bongwha-gun) including residents' opinion surveys.
In relation to part 1, even though we can find some possibilities of using urbanites and people moving into rural areas in vitalizing rural regions, it is quite a premature stage of the policy. The policy group is lacking sufficient concerning programmes and projects. Present policy support is considerably limited to the people who come to rural areas for agriculture. The implementation system is government-oriented and private sector does not have sufficient roll in the policy. From the result, we suggest that the policy direction be more headed to extending urbanites and new comers's role in their newly settled region from simply attracting them to rural areas. For this, it is required to draw up support measures to help urbanites and new comers in rural areas to settle down in and to make full use of their capacities in developing their rural region.
In relation to part 2, as the number of the vulnerable(such as elderly people, multicultural families, etc.) in rural areas is continuously increasing, the social welfare programmes in Improvement of Quality of Life for Farmers and Fishermen and Rural Development Scheme are showing a certain policy outcomes. But delivery system of social welfare in rural areas is still inadequate. Moreover, social service for rural vulnerable groups in policy blind spot such as grandparents and grandchildren families and the disabled is far more deficient. As a result of the research, we suggested that the policy direction move from 'dispensational' perspective to 'productive and participational' perspective and take integrated approach to guarantee that social service is effectively and efficiently delivered to the wide range of rural vulnerable groups.
Researchers: Joo-In Seong, Dae-Shik Park, Ma Sang-Jin and In-Hye Kwon
Research Period: 2011.3~2011.12
E-mail Address: jiseong@krei.re.kr
- Next
- Rural Proofing on After School Policy and Women Economic Activity Policy
- Prev
- Monitoring the Implementation of Rural Services Standard