Effective Obstacles to Social Participation of Villagers in Development Plans (Case Study: Northern Banajooy Village)

Social participation is very important in rural areas due to taking the role and role playing by rural inhabitants in economic and social programs, especially in development plans, to achieve the collective goals in rural areas. Meanwhile, there are obstacles to assessing and prioritizing the social participation of villagers in development plans. Therefore, the present study aims to evaluate and prioritize the most important obstacles in social participation of rural development activities in the northern Banajooy village of Bonab[1]. The present study was conducted by descriptive - analyzing method based on library resources, field studies and questionnaire's completion. In this research, simple random sampling was used and the sample size was determined by Cochran formula. The data were collected from a sample of 320 rural households based on field studies and by using Cochran sampling method. Data collection was done on the basis of selective and researcher-made indicators and was done by using a household questionnaire. Validity of the questionnaires was examined by experts (experts in the departments responsible for civil development). The validity of the questionnaire obtained 0.81. To analyze the data, ANP Model and the Super Decisions and SPSS softwares was used. The results of single-sample t-test showed that among the effective various factors of the social participation of villagers in the development plans, these following factors are ranked 1 to 6, respectively : the social (31.474), educational-extension (29.269), state institutions (26.925), economic (20/351), rural institutions (18.721), and the legal-lawful institutions (14/231) . Finally, according to the results and with more emphasis on social factors, strategies of removing the obstacles and implementing of these strategies was developed.