The development approaches for all persons in a particular locality/ community should not be the same for effectiveness. Based on their willingness scale in joining the development they should be categoried in four main groups in any village. Separate category of interventions should be designed for each group. Then only one can see the results of development interventions. This approach is named as Selective Approaches of Development Interventions of IIDM Bhopal.
In this approach the Community is categorized into four major groups for the sake of development intervention design.
1- Laggards in Development who are at low level of development need & development demand.
2- Development Snatchers who are at low level of development need & but very high level of development demand.
3- Sleeping Stars of Development who are at very high level of development need & but low level of development demand.
4- Stars of Development who are at very high level of both development need & development demand.
If you want to do development interventions first identify the stars of development by assessing their positioning on the development need & development demand. These are the persons who are at higher side of both these scales. They need the least amount of mobilization & they start participating in development interventions.
The second priority is for sleeping stars who are at very high level of development need & but low level of development demand. These persons require interventions to make them realize the availability of interventions with respect to their needs. Once they convince they participate in development interventions. Here role of a change facilitator is just to make them realize their potential with regard to interventions.
The third category are those persons who are at low level of development need but very high level of development demand. They are already developed but they snatch the share of the needy persons by their crooked design. The development facilitators should be careful in handling them otherwise they will create the problems in development interventions. They will instigate or terrorize both the stars & sleeping stars not to participate in the development process. The change facilitator should shield these two categories from these snatchers of development by polished behaviour with out giving the share of development meant for others.
The laggards in development are those persons who are at low level of development need as well as low in development demand. They require very strong mobilization interventions with slow result. Therefore this group should be given the least priority. It will be mobilized very slow by induction effect of other two groups or by trickle down approach.
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