Perception of local communities on the effectiveness of opportunities and obstacles to development (o&od) in Kishapu district, Tanzania
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Date
2011
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Sokoine University of Agriculture
Abstract
This study was conducted in Kishapu District with the objective of investigating the
perception of local communities on the effectiveness of Opportunities and Obstacles to
Development (O&OD) in rural area. Three specific objectives were addressed namely, to
determine the perception of community members on using O&OD on planning and
implementation of development projects; to identify how the grassroots’ communities
understand the types of development projects implemented through community
participation and to examine the status of O&OD in line with implemented development
projects at grass root levels. An interview schedule and checklist of questions were used
to collect data. A total of 120 respondents who were the household heads from four
villages were interviewed. The collected data were analyzed using quantitative and
qualitative approaches. The major findings in the study area revealed that: First, most of
the respondents were aware of the O&OD as a community participatory planning
technique. Second, the local communities had positive perception towards O&OD. Third,
O&OD had sensitized the local community on adoption of bottom - up planning
approach. Fourth, O&OD as a participatory planning technique empowered people in
decision making, participation on development projects identification, planning,
implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E). Fifth, the implemented development
projects were effective and the local communities’ benefited from them. Then, the regression model results
revealed that community participation on projects
implementation, number of years of schooling and the size of the households had positive
correlation to effectiveness of O&OD and statistical significant at 5% confidence interval
level.
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Master's Dissertation
Keywords
Local communities, Effectiveness of opportunities, Obstacles to development, Kishapu district, Community members