Country:            Malaysia
Title:              Project DELSILIFE.  
                    Final Report (Phase 1).  
Project Leader(s):  A SEAMEO-INNOTECH and EPRD   
Institution:        Education Planning and Research Division.  
Address:            Level 2,3&5, Block J, Damansara Town Centre.  
Town/City:          Kuala Lumpur.  
State:              Federal Territory.     Country:   Malaysia.  
Telephone:          255-6900.  
Objectives:         The objective of this project is to deliver basic
                    knowledge and useful skills in the occupational
                    arts and to develop positive attitudes of the
                    rural community towards the enhancement of their
                    community life system.  
Methodology:        The project covers three phases. In the first
                    phase, which cover the duration of eighteen
                    months from May 1980 to October 1981, a
                    preliminary research survey was conducted. This
                    intensive study was to obtain basic data and
                    relevant information on the socio-economic
                    conditions and socio-cultural patterns of the
                    community of the village of Sungai Buluh in
                    Jelebu, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. As a part of
                    the research survey, the expressed needs of the
                    community and their problems and aspiration were
                    identified.  
Background:         DELSILIFE is a major regional project of SEAMEO.
                    It is designed to develop and to provide
                    strategies, approaches and procedures in the
                    attempt to improve the quality of life of the
                    rural poor through the concept of self-reliance.
                    The project is educational in nature. The
                    overiding theme of project DELSILIFE is concerned
                    with change and development of the rural poor.
                    Nonethless the Philosophy of the project is
                    founded on the concept that change and
                    development of a rural community should be
                    inspired from within a well-defined and
                    coordinated educational intervention system.  
Expected Outcomes:  The outcomes of the first phase resulting in
                    drawing of a master plan for action in the second
                    phase that concentrate on implementing of various
                    pilot educational-oriented community programmes.
Citations:          EPRD,'Project DELSILIFE,'49p. 1984.  
Commencement Date:  1980.                  Duration: 18 months.  
Completion Date:    1981   
Descriptors:        Work education; Rural development