PROBLEMS FACING THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATIONS IN SOME VILLAGES OF ISMAILIA | ||
| Journal of Productivity and Development | ||
| Article 5, Volume 20, Issue 2, April 2015, Pages 179-209 PDF (478.61 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jpd.2015.42787 | ||
| Author | ||
| Ashraf El Damasy* | ||
| Researcher Rural Community Research, Department Agricultural Extension Research Institute Rural Development, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study aimeding to determine the role played by the community development association from the perspective of each of the board members and their beneficiaries, as well as to identify the problems encountered in the community development association developmental role from the perspective of each of the members of the boards of directors and Beneficiaries them, as well as to identify the proposals to overcome the problems facing the local community development associations from the perspective of each of the board members and their beneficiaries. This research was conducted in ten villages of Ismailia on a systematic random sample of beneficiaries ten associations of associations of the local community's development (1802) beneficiary distance Preview (6). Thus, the number of beneficiaries of the respondents reached (300) Researched, and (10) members of the Board of Directors of each of the studied Association associations bringing the number of respondents from the members of the Board of Directors (100) Researched and thus amounted to a total sample of 400 respondents. It was the collection of data for the study during the months of November and December (2014) by two forms of one interview, especially the members of the Board of Directors, and other private beneficiaries of the association's activities through a personal interview with each respondent, and study used duplicates, and percentages, and the arithmetic average in the description and presentation of data. The results of the study resulted in a number of the most important: 1 - More than five studied associations play a development role is weak in the seven axes combined, and a quarter of the studied associations play a development role of the average in the seven axes combined, and five studied associations play a major developmental role in the seven axes combined, while nearly one-third of associations studied not carry out activities related to the turn in the seven developmental axes combined. 2 - It became clear that the average temperature of the community development association in turn in the seven developmental axes combined from the perspective of the beneficiaries of the association's activities has reached, the highest of the half as the overall average of between. So is the role of the local community development associations in whole performed moderately. 3 - The most important problems facing the associations of community development from the standpoint of members of boards of directors in descending order according to the percentages mentioned are: the weakness of financial resources and lack of fundin), and non-availability of the necessary support to carry out projects services, and lack of awareness among people's of the importance of participating own effort), and the lack of technical and administrative personnel to operate the association , and the lack of adequate training for board members and employees association, and the presence of some Subversive elements within the local community , and the difficulty of laws and regulations Organization of the work of the Assembly. 4 -Turned out to be the most important problems facing the associations of community development from the standpoint of beneficiaries in descending order according to the National percentages mentioned are: the weakness of the efficiency of the Board of Directors and staff association, and lack of adequate time of service to the public , nd lack of Assembly's ability to reduce unemployment and provide job opportunities for young people , and lack of adequate service provided by the Assembly to the needs of the public , and projects Association do not come back of great benefit to all residents of the village, and lack of Assembly's ability to provide material assistance to the needy. 5 -It became clear that the most important proposals of the board members to overcome the problems faced by associations of local community development in descending order according to the percentages mentioned are: to provide the necessary support for the establishment of projects and services , and increase the training courses to create the technical and administrative personnel to operate the association ,and reduce the ongoing official bodies in the scope of work of the Assembly interventions , and coordination between the work of the Assembly and other organizations ,and the elimination of destructive elements within the local community ,and the need to facilitate legislation and laws governing the work of NGOs . 6 - The most important proposals of beneficiaries to overcome the problems faced by associations of local community development in descending order according to the percentages mentioned are: raising the level of efficiency of the Board of Directors and staff association ,and determine the appropriate time to provide the service to the public ,and the need for the introduction of a cadre of men Business on the board to help with funding and establish service projects create jobs for young people , and the need for matching projects and services to the needs of the necessary community , and work on the deployment of development thinking among the people of the village . 7 - The study recommends the need to the attention of officials in all ministries in the state associations of local community development and solving problems which hampered in its role developmental in the Egyptian countryside, because it acts as a complement to most government institutions in the implementation of development programs, and allocate the state as much as from the general budget to increase funding for these associations to help in the implementation of their activities and continue to play their role in the community service. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Problems Facing; Community Development Associations; Villages; Ismailia | ||
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