Prioritizing preventing factors affecting on stakeholder's participation in watershed plans based on expert's idea, case study: watershed area surrounding city of Tehran

Consciousness of preventing factors affecting on stakeholder participation in watershed area's plans is a main principle in realization of effective participation of stakeholder and obtaining integrated watershed management goals. There are twelve watershed areas surrounding the city of Tehran that their runoff influence on northern and northeast parts of Tehran. Different factors can prevent stakeholder' participation that they have been classified into economic, social, human and planning indices. Obtained results from prioritizing effective indices on preventing stakeholder' participation in watershed plans based on obtained weights from Fuzzy-AHP method and questionary data obtained from Administration of Natural Resources and Watershed Management and its branches indicate that economic and human indices have respectively maximum and minimum priorities, in the manner that prioritization of indices based on normalized weights from maximum to minimum importance are economic, planning, social and finally human, respectively. In this research, preventing sub-indices affecting on stakeholder' participation in watershed area´s plans were created based on library studies, expert ideas and also interviewing with 240 residences and finally the validity of questionary was verified based on expert ideas. Obtained results with ranking sub-indices based on the Friedman test show that sub-indices have different roles in preventing stakeholder' participation in watershed plans, in the manner that “ignoring people´s income as a direct economic motivation” with mean rank of 10.77 and “being low literacy and knowledge” with mean rank of 1.80 have a maximum and minimum of mean rank, respectively. In this research, sub-indices of “ignoring people´s income as a direct economic motivation” from economic index, “concentration of decision making power in center” from planning index, “shortage of trust to project results” from social index and finally “shortage of education of watershed residents about plants and their purposes” from human index were ranked as the most important sub-indices.