Author: Basan Shrestha
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no.RD-02-11
Year: 2002
Academic Program: Regional and Rural Development Planning (RRDP)
Type: Thesis (M.Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2002
Examination Committee: Gopal B. Thapa (Chairperson); Soparth Pongquan, Ganesh P. Shivakoti (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: support is withdrawn. Taking this fact into consideration, a study was carried out to identify the factors differentiating active and passive user groups induced by JICNHMG Community Development and Forest I Watershed Conservation Project first phase that was implemented from 1994/95 to 1998/99 in three Village Development Committees of Kaski district in the Western Development Region of Nepal. The factors were categorized into four dimensions viz. organizational structure, functional system, internal resource and support system, and external support and linkage system. A total of 17 user groups formed for community plantation, landslide control, water source protection and trail improvement were purposively surveyed at first stage. Of which 8 and 9 groups were respectively, designated as active and passive in a participatory discussion, on the basis of regular operation and maintenance, supported by holding of meeting and group fund. A total of 172 user households, 86 from active groups and 86 from passive groups were surveyed by using simple random technique at the second stage. All qualitative variables under consideration were indexed and T-test was employed to compare the significance of indices between active and passive groups. The active groups were better than the passive groups in terms of members’ perception on need and of objectives of user groups, roles and responsibilities and feeling of collective actions. The users’ feeling of collective actions was the most important factor among them. Active groups had better operated and maintained the activities supported by the project, because of accruing considerable benefits both at the personal and community levels. Forest resources and reclamation of cultivated land formed the major benefits accrued by the users. The users deep sense of collective actions and level benefit accrued were directly associated with level of dependency on the conserved resources and interlinkage between public and private lands. The members of active groups perceived to have
Scholarship Donor(s): Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science
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