Mobilizing and Managing Social Capital: On Roles and Responsibilities of Local Facilitators in Territorial Development

Autor/inn/en	Schermer, Markus; Kirchengast, Christoph; Petit, Sandrine; Magnani, Natalia; Mieville-Ott, Valerie
Titel	Mobilizing and Managing Social Capital: On Roles and Responsibilities of Local Facilitators in Territorial Development
Quelle	In: Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 16 (2010) 3, S.321-334 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1389-224X
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Agriculture; Rural Development; Research Projects; Social Capital; Coaching (Performance); Helping Relationship; Agricultural Occupations; Austria; France; Italy; Switzerland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Landwirtschaft; Rural environment; Development; Ländliches Milieu; Entwicklung; Forschungsvorhaben; Sozialkapital; Helfende Beziehung; Agriculture; Occupation; Beruf; Landwirtschaftlicher Beruf; Österreich; Frankreich; Italien; Schweiz
Abstract	The paper explores the difficulties and challenges in mobilizing and managing social capital in concrete local and territorial directed rural development project activities. The main focus is put on the roles of local facilitators working with farmers and other local stakeholders during project implementation. The EU 5th framework project IMALP included a strong component of implementing concrete actions. In each of the four participating countries a region was selected where a so-called local group was established. A local facilitator was employed to moderate the local group and to assist in the design and implementation of concrete projects. Research accompanied and monitored the process. The recent shift of EU policy towards rural development from a mainly sectoral (agricultural) approach to a territorial approach requires new competences in managing social capital and on their changing role(s) in the different stages of group formation and development. Professional support by facilitators with a set of new skills is needed in the course of group formation and development. The identification, mobilization and management of social capital become a crucial challenge. So far the mobilization and management of social capital does not happen consciously. Agricultural advisors taking over the task of local facilitators need to be specially trained in actively mobilizing and coordinating towards a common goal. The value of the paper lies in the analysis of the experimental approach of the project and the cross-country comparison of the results. (As Provided).
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