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The Motivation of Participants in Successful Development Aid Projects: A Self-Determination Theory Analysis of Reasons for Participating

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  • Sayanagi, Nobuo R
  • Aikawa, Jiro

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The aim of this study was to reveal the reasons that extension officers and farmers give for participating in successful capacity development projects, and to categorize these reasons into motivation types defined by self-determination theory, drawing from the “why questions” approach of Chandler & Connell (1987). Field officers and farmers from two successful projects, — namely, the Life Improvement Approach in Japan and the Smallholder Horticulture Empowerment and Promotion approach in Kenya — participated in semi-structured interviews regarding the reasons they participated in their projects’ activities. The concordance rate of the independent ratings of the reasons by the two authors was high, verifying the reliability of the coding procedure. A large proportion of the reasons were coded as identified/integrated regulation, the most autonomous type of motivation, supporting the hypothesis that participants of successful aid projects would primarily be autonomously motivated. Other implications of the interview transcripts are also discussed.

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  • Sayanagi, Nobuo R & Aikawa, Jiro, 2016. "The Motivation of Participants in Successful Development Aid Projects: A Self-Determination Theory Analysis of Reasons for Participating," Working Papers 121, JICA Research Institute.
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    1. George Mgendi & Mao Shiping & Cheng Xiang, 2019. "A Review of Agricultural Technology Transfer in Africa: Lessons from Japan and China Case Projects in Tanzania and Kenya," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(23), pages 1-19, November.
    2. Kozaki, Tomomi & Nakamura, Yusuke, 2017. "The Evolving Life Improvement Approach: From Home Taylorism to JICA Tsukuba, and Beyond," Working Papers 146, JICA Research Institute.
    3. Sayanagi, Nobuo R., 2017. "Breaking the Poverty Trap: A Psychological Framework for Facilitating Autonomous Motivation and Sustainable Behavioral Change in Development Aid Beneficiaries," Working Papers 151, JICA Research Institute.

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    development aid ; capacity development projects ; motivation ; self-determination theory;
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