Delineation of the challenges of rural development policy in Kurdistan province with emphasis on empowerment and role-playing in the realization of Kurdistan province's strategic document on landuse planning

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10.30490/rvt.2023.361364.1511

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strategies and consequences, and finally, drawing the final model of the policy challenges of the rural development of the province with emphasis on role-playing in the direction of the strategic document of the province. Considering the multiplicity of actors and the complexity and interconnectedness of the broad scene of rural development, regional development and documents with a spatial nature such as the land use document, the findings showed that the distance from the regional development policy based on integrated space management (with emphasis on the strategic document of land use province), inappropriate quality of rural development policies, problems of the policy-making process (problem analysis, decision-making and formulation of policies), inadequate knowledge and personal mentality of development policy makers and weakness in rural governance based on the old regionalism, rationalist and sectoral policymaking in the rural development of the province, the most important challenges and the necessity of reforming the process, content and quality of policymaking based on the new regionalism, integrated rural development and creation as well as organization of rare development space, are necessary to correct the existing unfavorable situation. On this basis, moving in the direction of organizing the development space of the province and building sustainable regional development based on the role of rural areas in its geographical space, requires a systemic vision and integrated, synergistic management in the structure and process of development policy.

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