This thesis focuses on support of tourism, namely grants of private entities. There are described ex post assessments of Rural Development Programme (RDP) 2007-2013 impacts in this thesis. The programme focused on accommodation and sports devices in the region Jihočeský kraj (CZ). The influence of the support and the utilization range of new services are analysed here. There is measured a success rate of support in conclusion and there is also given an advice, how to improve the support efficiency.

The aim of this thesis is the specification and analysis of aspects of human resources and their culture, and the impact on quality of life and stabilization in selected municipality with the suggests possible improvement the current state. The theoretical part deals with rural development and population stabilization. In the practical part is the current state of the village Dunajovice in South Bohemia being analyzed. Data source is a questionnaire survey, consisting of two questionnaires and one test, also interview with the mayor of the municipality and my own observation of the current state. In the conclusion there are formulated recommendations for changes to improve the quality of life in this municipality.

In Namibia, parents are mainly responsible for the establishment of preschools in their communities. However, many preschools in rural areas are beset by problems such as poor basic infrastructure and a shortage of trained staff. In light of evidence that parent involvement in Early Childhood Development (ECD) programmes is beneficial, this study includes a literature review of parent involvement in rural preschools as well as the place and role of parents in BCD provision in Namibia. A qualitative investigation of parent involvement in four rural preschools in the Kavango region was conducted. The data were analysed, discussed and synthesised. Among others it was found that preschools do not have a clear policy on parent involvement and that both parents and teachers lack knowledge on home-school partnerships. Poor socioeconomic circumstances and a lack of leadership exacerbates the problem. Based on the findings, guidelines for improving home-school relationships are proposed. / Educational Studies / M.Ed (Comparative Education)

This research studies and documents the barriers to remote rural students' access of distance education support services offered by the centre for external studies at the University of Namibia The intent of the researcher is to investigate the question: What barriers do remote rural students face when accessing student support services offered by the CES-UNAM? The purpose of the study is to promote the growth of open and distance learning in the area of student support for students in the remote areas of Caprivi and Kavango regions in Namibia. The aim of the research is to provide evidence that open and distance learning students in remote rural areas face academic, administrative and logistics, personal and natural disasters as barriers as they study through the Centre for External Studies, University of Namibia. Six students were interviewed and studied over a period of two months. The students were followed to their places where interviews were held. Several written documents from students registering their grievances with CES-UNAM were requested from the office of the Director and were reviewed and analysed. The results thereof were recorded in thick verbatim as students personally engaged themselves in narrating the barriers that they face each day during their study periods. The results showed that Open and Distance Learning institutions in the world should practise and enhance sound academic, administration and logistics management systems to help students in remote rural areas. CES-UNAM has a challenge to ensure that students in remote rural areas are adequately supported. The researcher recommends that studies in the area of student support in should focus on their transactional, interactional and social contexts in order to enhance their opportunities to continue with their studies. / Educational Studies / D.Ed. (Distance Education)

Access and use of information facilitate the improvement of agriculture in rural areas. It is therefore important to ensure that adequate and appropriate information flows to the rural areas, and that farmers are able to utilise it. This study investigated the access and use of poultry management information in three rural districts of Tanzania, namely Iringa Rural, Morogoro Rural and Mvomero. The survey method, supplemented by methodological triangulation, was used to collect both quantitative and qualitative data. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect data from 360 poultry farmers in the selected rural communities. Sixteen focus group discussions were conducted, in which 160 farmers participated. Twenty-two information providers were interviewed. The SPSS® software was used to analyse quantitative data, while qualitative data was analysed using content analysis. The findings indicated that poultry farmers needed information on poultry disease control, poultry protection, shelter for poultry and poultry production. There was very low identification and prioritisation of farmers’ information needs by the information providers. Farmers accessed information that had a direct impact and was deemed relevant to their farming activities. It was revealed that farmers accessed information mainly from interpersonal sources. Likewise, farmers preferred interpersonal and informal sources to formal sources of information. The extension officers were considered to be the most effective information source, followed by family, friends, and neighbours. Various factors, such as lack of awareness, unavailability of extension officers and poor infrastructure, influenced access and use of poultry management information. It was concluded that most of the information providers were not aware of the farmers’ information needs, and as a result they were not in a position to disseminate relevant information. In addition, farmers were used to an oral culture, which means that they would probably continue to depend on interpersonal sources of information, regardless of the availability of formal channels and modern sources. The study recommended several measures, including the use of multiple sources of information and delivery of information in a variety of formats, in order to accommodate various categories of farmers. The study also suggested some areas for further research. Furthermore, a model for effective dissemination of poultry management information in rural areas was proposed. / Information Science / D. Litt. et Phil. (Information Science)

Landuse for farming purposes in specially protected areas could be characterised as a longterm process of seeking balance between the concerns of environmental protection and farming activities. This is also true for agriculture. Precautions to protect the environment mean certain limitiation, however, on the other hand, suitable forms of farming a large protected area can be supported by the state. Farmers can gain the government support not only for their own agricultural production but also to carry out various environmental task to maintain the landscape. This diploma thesis evaluates the use of governmental support in the protected area Třeboňsko. It analyses the structure of farms and agriculture companies, the system of farming activities, structure and development of farmland. According to the system of farming, it evaluates the use of financial support from the Ministry of Agriculture with the emphasis on the environmental protection and its improvement. It also finds out about the importance of the subsidies for the farmers. Based on the analyses that were carried out it is possible to say that all types of farming companies make use of the subsidy support from the Ministry of Agriculture. The farmers use the Programme for Rural Areas Development to permanently develop the country and improve the environmment. They use mainly the payments for natural disadvantage compensation and for agroenvironmental precautions. The subsidies often form a substantial source of the farming subjects' income.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:36:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MirtesGH_TESE.pdf: 2699071 bytes, checksum: 7507c1a00453e1fa950c85ef3f90222d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-11-23 / This report aims to present the results of research on the possibilities and limits of Supervised Traineeship in a the course of Training of Teachers in Service of the early years of primary education conducted through an agreement between the Federal University of Piau? and the Teresina city council (PI) UFPI/PMT, offers subsidies to teaching practices that address the reality of students who live, work and/or studying in school located in rural areas. The research is based on a theoretical and methodological approach that places the object of study in the critical perspective and using procedures such as: literature (bibliographical research), documentary analysis, semi-structured interview and photographic record. We researched 10 (ten) teachers of the course promoted by UFPI graduating in 2006 and who develop teaching activities in schools located in rural areas in the city of Teresina-PI, 02 (two) teachers who are trainee supervisor of UFPI and the coordinator of the course. The analysis evidenced that the object, historically, educational policies have changed, but did not break the traditional patterns of teacher education, enough, especially in the curricular proposals in light of the changes required by the information and global society. We also note that in the supervised training, the process of critical reflection on teaching practice was made possible, in part, and raised the reconstruction of specific knowledge to make teaching in order to conduct the teaching-learning process articulating different realities of primary teaching and facing situations due to conservative practices in relation to education in rural areas. It contributed, therefore, this curricular component to resize, in part, the pedagogical action of the teachers graduated. The study also drives the research toward to similar studies in the perspective of overcoming the current model of teacher training that does not correspond to the demands of society in change and to the crisis of capital, with immeasurable consequences in the workplace. The contemporary claims for a University to form professionals capable of directing the destiny of society, where teacher training is a social and political demands on which is co-responsible / Este relat?rio tem como objetivo apresentar os resultados da pesquisa sobre as possibilidades e os limites de o Est?gio Supervisionado em um curso de Forma??o de Professores em Servi?o dos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental realizado por meio de conv?nio entre a Universidade Federal do Piau? e a Prefeitura Municipal de Teresina (Pi) UFPI/PMT, oferecer subs?dios a pr?ticas pedag?gicas que contemplem a realidade dos alunos que vivem, trabalham e/ou estudam em escolas localizadas no meio rural. A investiga??o fundamenta-se em uma abordagem te?rico-metodol?gica que situa o objeto de estudo na perspectiva cr?tica e utilizando como procedimentos: pesquisa bibliogr?fica, an?lise documental, entrevista semiestruturada e registro fotogr?fico. Constitu?ram sujeitos da pesquisa 10 (dez) professores egressos do curso promovido pela UFPI concluintes em 2006 e que desenvolvem atividades docentes em escolas situadas no meio rural no munic?pio de Teresina-PI, 2 (duas) professoras supervisoras de est?gio da UFPI e a coordenadora do curso. A an?lise do objeto evidenciou que, historicamente, as pol?ticas educacionais modificaram-se, mas n?o aconteceram rupturas nos padr?es tradicionais de forma??o de professores, o suficiente, principalmente nas propostas curriculares, em face das mudan?as requeridas pela sociedade informacional e global. Constatamos, ainda, que, no Est?gio Supervisionado, o processo de reflex?o cr?tica sobre a pr?tica pedag?gica foi viabilizado, parcialmente, e suscitou a reconstru??o de saberes espec?ficos ao fazer pedag?gico de modo a conduzir o processo ensino-aprendizagem articulando diferentes realidades do ensino fundamental e enfrentando situa??es decorrentes de pr?ticas conservadoras em rela??o ao ensino no meio rural. Contribuiu, portanto, esse componente curricular para redimensionar, em parte, a a??o pedag?gica dos(as) professores(as) egressos(as). Acena, tamb?m, a pesquisa para estudos similares na perspectiva de superar o modelo atual de forma??o de professores que n?o corresponde aos reclamos da sociedade em mudan?as e ? crise do capital, com repercuss?es imensur?veis no mundo do trabalho. A contemporaneidade reclama por uma Universidade que forme profissionais capazes de conduzir os destinos da sociedade, sendo que a forma??o de professores ? uma demanda pol?tica e social sobre a qual ? correspons?vel

This work aims at introducing and analyzing financing development possibilities of The Region of South Bohemia, namely the evaluation of drawing financial resources from the Programme of renewal of rural areas and the Programme of the development of economically weak and structurally disabled regions of South Bohemia. The priority of the development, investment projects fixed on them and quantity of financial resources were to be submitted, expressed in numbers and described their development in time. The contribution of this work consists especially in the contribution of absorbed financial resources from those given to the Programmes of The Region of South Bohemia. The resources from the Programme of rural areas and the Programme of the development of economically weak and structurally disabled regions that The Region of South Bohemia is gong to absorb in terms of single endowment titles of these programmes, is gong to significantly make for achievement aims given by the development plan. The essential characteristics of realized projects should include: creating new jobs, support of entrepreneurial activities, improving the quality of local roads, improving travelling for inhabitants of south bohemian villages and attaching to these communication on main regional highways, improvement of offers and services in the field of tourism.

The work deals with amenity migration in a natural park "Bohemian Canada". Amenity migration is one of the current global phenomena. Amenity migration is a specific type of migration which is not motivated by economic prosperity of the target area. It is motivated by an effort to live in more valuable socio-cultural surroundings, and it is mainly directed from metropolitan to rural areas. The main aim of this work is to identify the assumptions of the model area for the creation and existence of the phenomenon of "amenity migration". The part of this finding is the identification of the main reasons of amenity migrants moving into this area. The finding of the results of this work was carried out by using a statistical survey, using the technique of interviewing respondents. The survey was carried out from April to June 2010. It was made 101 questionnaires and 95 of them were used to evaluate the results. The research was conducted in the natural park ?Bohemian Canada?. ?Bohemian Canada? is a popular tourist area. It's a rough area, yet romantic charakter, with excellent conditions for amenity migration. In the area there are many summer huts and cottages, which could constitute a potential base for amenity migration.

Diploma paper is related to South Bohemia region. Diploma paper analyses aktual situation of South Bohemia region and development plans and their contribution for rural areas in South Bohemia region for the interval of years 2004 - 2006. In diploma paper are alalysed Operational plan Rural development and multifunction agriculture, Horizontal plan of rural development a Program of regeneration of rural areas.