BMN Community Based Approach and Integrated Resource Allocation to Improve Rural Quality of Life

Abstract

Self-reliance development in Thailand could not work as estimated due to lacking of the indice for people’s organization to search for their real needs in the community. The development of basic minimum needs (BMN) approach in Thailand has achieved as an instrument of village committee for improving the quality of life since 1986. BMN indicators and its process were used as an instrument for problem’s diagnosis and evaluative instrument for quality of life improvement. The achievement of BMN approach in social development schemes could be evaluated in terms of : 1) The commitment from the government (in 20 August, 1985) and policy makers, 2) the widely acceptance of BMN indicators as an instrument for village committee since 1986, 3) with the preparation of BMN information as an instrument for intersectoral cooperation among 4 major ministries and for readjust the frame of policy, programmer planning and inplementating at the national level and provincial level.