การบริหารแบบมีส่วนร่วมในการพัฒนาหมู่บ้านเศรษฐกิจพอเพียง อำเภอเขาสวนกวาง จังหวัดขอนแก่น

        The objectives of this research were: (1) to study the participatory administration in the development of sufficiency economy villages, Khao Suan Kwang District, Khon Kaen Province; (2) to propose guidelines for the participatory administration in the development of sufficiency economy villages in Khao Suan Kwang District. This study was conducted employing a mixed research method. The samples used in this research were ๓๗๕ participants, selected by simple random sampling from 26 sufficiency economy villages in Khao Suan Kwang District. The key informants selected by purposive sampling were 12 participants involved in driving the development of sufficiency economy villages in Khao Suan Kwang District. The research instruments were a questionnaire and a semi-structured interview with a reliability value of 0.889. The statistics used in data analysis were: Percentage, Mean and Standard Deviation.

        The research results were as follows:

        1) The participatory administration in the development of sufficiency economy villages in Khao Suan Kwang in overall aspect and every studied aspect was statistically rated at a high level. The aspect with the highest mean was ‘participation in receiving benefits,' followed by ‘participation in monitoring and evaluation,' 'participation in decision making.' The aspect with the lowest mean was ‘participation in the operation’.

        2) The guidelines for the participatory administration in the development of sufficiency economy villages in Khao Suan Kwang District in four aspects were as follows:

1. Participation in decision making: the integration and collaboration between government agencies and networks inside and outside the community should be conducted to allow all sectors to work together with the government equally and to create a participatory process, which is to explain the village development objectives to the network partners in all sectors to understand and assign missions according to roles and duties to support development in various fields.

2. Participation in operations: community should be involved in government operations to listen to the opinions and needs of the people, and to increase the skills for living according to the sufficiency economy according to potential and interests of people in the community and find a pilot point (kick-off) to clarify operations at the district level.

3. Participation in receiving benefits: a network between government agencies, the private sector, and the community should be created so that the community has a thorough knowledge and understanding of the benefits from projects or activities and developing a concrete community welfare fund system.

4. Participation in monitoring and evaluation: the responsible person for directing the system and mechanisms for working together should be determined. There should be an internal management audit system and auditing from external agencies together with the preparation of written documents and regularly monitoring the movement of various activities in the community.