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The idea of rural development starting with the free-responsible person is ambitious, because  it is not institutionally restricted to one aspect of people’s life only but also it tries to conceive the total of their potentialities. Therefore  the set of possibilities for being, doing, and having, which give people the opportunities to use resources efficiently are considered within the development concept. 

Besides, the notion considers future generations, including the family in the resource management; proposing that everyone (women, the youth, children, and men) analyses if the resources will be available in the future under the current form of exploitation and that they come up with preservation alternatives that give sustenaibility to their development.

The following chart is an outline of the methodological framework proposed by the institution to accompany the development process of the people who belong to the rural sector and it works as an ideological regime that gives coherence to the right thing to do and the right thing to say of the development agent.

The institutional proposal for the rural development presented here is a  systematized model, that can be explained in the following way:

Fundation Paradigm

The first level comprises:

Institutional Philosophy.- the ideas that constitute the vision  and the interpretation the organization has and makes of the Civil Society of the world and of the Rural Sector where all the activities are performed is summarized in:

a) Principles of action

1.- Respect for to the people for their intelligence and freedom.
2.- Solidarity: social corresponsibility.
3.- Subsidiarity: support for the weakest without replacing them but by complementing their resources.
4.- Effectiveness and efficiency:To accomplish results in the best possible way.
5.- Respect for Nature.- To Take care of the environment.

b) Institutional objetives


They define the field of action and the application of the principles of action.
 
1.- Individual Human Development: to go along with people during their  change of mentality, adopting new knowledge and reinforcement of values.
 2.- Social Development: new forms of relations and work.
 3.- Complement the peasant experience with the scientific method.
4.- Increase of productivity: to obtain the best results from the available resources.
5.- Sustainable Development:  to seek a rational exploitation of natural resources so that we guarantee the survival of future generations.

c) The General Strategy


The decision-making and Implementation process  that comes from a dynamic tension among the principles, the goals  and the field’s reality.
 
1.- The leading role of the peasants as a sign of respect for the person.
2.- The social organization for the peasants’ production as a decision-making process for structuring solidarity.
3.- Services offered by the centers in order to respond to structured requests.
4.- Sinergy: have bigger results than the arithmetic sum of the part.
5.- Human, Economic, Social and Environmental Sustainability that come from an endogenous, efficient, social and environmental development.

The second level comprises:

Operational Strategy, institutional work proposal.- It is constituted by pedagogical tools for educating (knowledge, abilities, attitudes), and pragmatic and instrumental ones to obtain an intermediate goal depending on a more complex and final one, combining the basic ideas, which are:

1.- Promotion: trust relationship and double-sided communication between peasant families and the development agent.
2.-Socioeconomic improvement of the organization through the Social Basic Education Program.
3.- Training: new knowledge, acquiring skills.
4.- Recognized associative forms, democratic autosuggestive structure, continuous training plan.
5.- Micro regional participative research: definition of scenes, productive models, programs, projects.
6.- Typology of people according to their cultural profile, the productive model,the market, the technology, and income.
7.- Systematisation: research, planning, programming, performance, control, and evaluation.