The Pattern of Local Community-Based Management for Sustainable Rural Development in West Azarbaijan Province

Rashidpour Rashidpour

doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2010.84.88

Abstract

Problem Statement: Community-based management as incorporates both a top-down and bottom-up approach that involvement beneficiary sections such as local community, government states and non governmental organizations. It has also been applied to designate approaches where local communities play a central but not exclusive role in rural sustainable development process management. Approach: This study was survey method and is descriptive-correlation research, which was carried out to designee the pattern of community-based management and its application for sustainable rural development process in west Azarbaijan province. Study population were consisted 270 of, local community (rural councilors), offices experts in rural related office activities and agricultural and natural resources engineering organization NGO’s members. Results: Results of structural equation modeling of the accepted characteristics indicated that latent variable such as &#34Stakeholder’s Role&#34 and &#34Affecting Factors&#34 have positive effect and &#34Obstacles&#34 latent variable has a negative role to design CBM. A structural equation indicated these variables altogether account 93% of variance (R2 = 0.93) in designing community-based management. Conclusion/Recommendations: On the basis of structural model, we can conclude that factors, stakholers and obstacles have important affect on community-based management. Overall community based management will have more impotent role in rural developments process planning, organizing, staffing, controlling and directing.

Highlights

Collaborative or cooperative management has been defined in many ways but is generally thought of as a power-sharing arrangement between the government and local stakeholder groups. Singleton (1998) defines co-management as ‘the term given to governance systems that combine state control with local, decentralized decision making and accountability and which, ideally, combine the strengths and mitigate the weaknesses of each’
Community-Based members), senior experts in related fields from Management (CBM) has been seen as a conservation, departments of agriculture and natural resources, empowering, poverty reducing and/or general rural environment and state officials and members of development strategy (Rural Livelihood Evaluation Agricultural and Natural Resources Engineering Partnership, 2004; Masduqi et al, 2007). Such Organization who were involved in activities related to community-based approaches create opportunities to strengthen social capital and community relations and to develop effective institutions for the management of sustainable rural development (Rural Livelihood Evaluation Partnership, 2004)
In this study attitudes towards community-based management approach were measured by set of questions about: “role of community in community-based management”, natural resource management (Rotha et al, 2005)

Summary

INTRODUCTION

(2006) community power continuum that called community control. Collaborative or cooperative management has been defined in many ways but is generally thought of as a power-sharing arrangement between the government and local stakeholder groups. Singleton (1998) defines co-management as ‘the term given to governance systems that combine state control with local, decentralized decision making and accountability and which, ideally, combine the strengths and mitigate the weaknesses of each’. Community-Based members), senior experts in related fields from Management (CBM) has been seen as a conservation, departments of agriculture and natural resources, empowering, poverty reducing and/or general rural environment and state officials and members of development strategy (Rural Livelihood Evaluation Agricultural and Natural Resources Engineering Partnership, 2004; Masduqi et al, 2007). Such Organization who were involved in activities related to community-based approaches create opportunities to strengthen social capital and community relations and to develop effective institutions for the management of sustainable rural development (Rural Livelihood Evaluation Partnership, 2004). The national level is that, for a number of reasons, central governments and line ministries may be hesitant

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