Study for Practical Adaptation of Basic Minimun Need Indicators for Creating community Participation in Problem Analysis, Priority Setting And Monitoring of Village Development Projects

Abstract

The main objective of this study was to discover the practical adaptation of basic minimum need indicators for stimulating community participation in problem analysis, priority setting and monitoring of village development. The results of the study were as follows : (1) In 5 villages of 5 provinces, 848 families, data showed that same parts of hypothesis no. I were accepted. Between poverty and non-poverty areas, using the chi-square test, data showed that there were 18 BMN indicators with significant differences, but there were no significant differences in the other 20 indicators. (2) In compairing the data from 4 villages in the land consolidation program (100 families) with the data from 2 villages (50 families) in the rainfed areas of the district of Khonkan Province, it was shown that some parts of hypothesis no. 2 were accepted. The Chi-square test showed that only 4 economic indicators and 1 social indicator had significant differences, and that the other 3 indicators had no significant differences. (3) Data collected from poor farmers who were buffalo-bank members in poverty and non poverty areas in Chiengmai Provinces showed that these were significant differences in only 2 BMN indicators but the other 16 indicators had no significant differences. The results of this study may conclude that (a) the National development Policy for the poverty area may improve the quality of life level of the people in the area (b) poor people either lived in irrigation areas, and those who lived in non-poverty areas did not have a higher quality of live level than those in the poverty area. The results showed that in making the BMN indicators for problem analysis priority setting, and monitoring purpose, we must develop a national process for community preparation such as found in the Korat Development Project.