5.1: Rural Growth Centers
Create employment to enhance incomes for rural communities and in-turn reduce rural-urban migration trends. Other Information:
Key Strategies -- Integrated rural development calls for coordinated efforts from a number areas. In particular, the provision
of key infrastructure is a prerequisite if rural growth centers are to develop. As such, the main strategies will include
the following: * Promoting the growth and development of rural growth centers through the provision of utilities and communications
network to facilitate the linkage of production areas to markets; * Implementing rural electrification programme effectively;
* Promoting and implementing economic empowerment programes such as MARDEF and OVOP; and * Improving the process of providing
title to land in order to encourage investment through ownership of land.
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