Perception of local communities on the effectiveness of opportunities and obstacles to development (o&od) in Kishapu district, Tanzania
| dc.contributor.author | Nyalaja, Paulo Andrea | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-09-22T08:10:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-09-22T08:10:50Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
| dc.description | Master's Dissertation | |
| dc.description.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. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/6991 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Sokoine University of Agriculture | |
| dc.subject | Local communities | |
| dc.subject | Effectiveness of opportunities | |
| dc.subject | Obstacles to development | |
| dc.subject | Kishapu district | |
| dc.subject | Community members | |
| dc.title | Perception of local communities on the effectiveness of opportunities and obstacles to development (o&od) in Kishapu district, Tanzania | |
| dc.type | Thesis |