ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with some attention to the range of change that is possible in rural development and proceeds to lay out a brief exposition of several of the strategies for change that have been in favor among both donor institutions and Third World governments for promoting rural development. A number of the innovations in rural development administration reflect an urge to introduce change at various points. These suggestions have been given a variety of labels, such as "learning process approach", "bureaucratic reorientation", "adjunctive and strategic planning", "new professionalism" and "reversals", and "social learning", all of which we have tried to subsume under our phrase "adaptive development administration" (ADA). The basic idea underlying most suggestions for ADA is a straightforward one: more bottom-up participation at all phases of the project cycle, both within the development bureaucracy itself and from outside it.
