The Development of People’s Participation for Sustainable Community Forestry Management in Ban Yang-Phrong, Pak Mak Sub-District, Chaiya District, Surat Thani Province

Abstract

The purposes of this research were: 1) to study the level of people’s participation in Sustainable Community Forestry Management in Ban Yang-Phrong, Pak Mak Sub-District, Chaiya District, SuratThani Province; 2) to develop people’s participation in Sustainable Community Forestry Management, and 3) to evaluate people’s participation in Sustainable Community Forestry Management

            The 144 purposive random sampling populations were used to study the problem and the need for their participations. It was found that the level of participations were low. Then the data were used as the basic data in setting up the development of people’s participations by means of AIC technique.

            The results from the development of people’s participations of the 32 participants were as follows: the participants having a chance to exchange their learning, to analyze the situations, to propose their ideas on how to deal with people’s participation in Sustainable Community Forestry Management, and to schedule their development projects for their community together. The pre-test and post-test on their knowledge and attitudes toward people’s participations were conducted before and after the workshop. The results from the evaluation revealed that the participation knowledge and good attitudes toward the participations were higher, whereas the test on skills and abilities in dealing with the people’s participations development show that the participation’s abilities and skills ranged from the middle level to the upper level.