INVESTIGATION ON EFFECTIVE FACTORS OF PARTICIPATION OF PEOPLE IN MANAGEMENT OF IRRIGATION NETWORKS

摘要

Today, planners are looking for creating a spirit of cooperation and collaboration between the villagers so that their involvement in the management of the resources and infrastructure created by the government would reduce the government’s financial and management burden. Sork area is located in the province of Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari. In this area, dam and its network of irrigation is one of the projects that provide agricultural water for the villagers. The government tends to bring management, protection and maintenance of these networks to the villagers and this work will be done through the formation of cooperatives in each region. Therefore, this study was done to identify the factors, which are effective in ensuring peoples’ participation. The Dezak village was chosen for this study as this is one of the villages that will be benefitted by the dam. Questions were asked from 80 individuals that live in this village. Results indicate that due to low awareness, lack of trust and empathy between people, this village may not form effective cooperatives.