Guidelines for Good Governance Community Development by Community Participation: Case Studies of Bangkok Metropolitan Communities

Abstract

This study aimed at examining problems, causes, and factors causing corruption, as well as forms and ways to solve problems in the communities and establishing community participation in designing system and mechanism to solve corruption problems and to offer
a model and guidelines for implementing as “Good Governance Community”.The research employed qualitative research in the form of community based research (CBR) focused on people participation as 12 researchers in Bangkok metropolitan communities and content analysis was applied.This study concluded that there are many forms of corruption in the communities. The most familiar forms are misappropriation of community’s money for private use through misuse of one’s own official position without any counterbalance; collusion between government procurement officials and business operators; negligence of duties to be transparent; and failure to keep accurate accounting records of the community’s income, expenses, and donations. These forms of corruption led to establish a system and mechanism to prevent and solve problems in Bangkok metropolitan communities.