Surveying the Villagers' Attitudes Toward Participation in Villages With the Aim of Reducing Deprivation in Romeshgan Township

Public participation at different levels is considered as one of several strategies to reduce deprivation in rural communities. Thus, it can play an important role in increasing people's awareness about civil and citizenship rights, affect the management of villages and institutions affairs, and defend the rights of rural people. Therefore, in this article it has been tried to examine the approach of people and the leaders of villages about public participation at different levels. The present study is objectively an applied research, and also descriptive- analytical and cross-correlation in view of method, in which the bulk of the data were collected at the regional level based on field studies (questionnaires, observations and interviews) and by random sampling from 320 samples. According to the results of Pearson correlation test, the obtained results of the study showed that there was a significant correlation between all indicators, but in most cases it found to be less-than-desirable Numeric limit (3). Also during spatial distribution of relationship between levels of public participation and deprivation reduction in the society, only two villages (Vali-e-Asr and Rashnodeh) showed direct correlation in terms of participation in the study area, but the correlation was weak amongst other villages. Thus, according to the findings, several solutions are suggested including creating public organizations related to training people to reduce deprivation in rural communities, creating socio-cultural contexts requirement to increase the participation of people in different aspects of rural development, and providing motivation for spontaneous public participation in the preparation, adoption and implementation of the plans, etc.