Objectives of this research were to: 1) study the participation of people in community development at Sakaew municipality, Sakaew Province. 2) compare the participation of people in community development at Sakaew municipality, Sakaew Province. Classified by personal factors and 3) to study obstacles and recommendations for public participation in community development at Sakaew municipality, Sakaew Province.

Methodology was the mixed methods: the quantitative research collected data with questionnaires with confidence value at 0.988, from 392 samples from the people in Sakaew municipality, Sakaew Province. Data were analyzed by frequency percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test and F-test using One-Way analysis of variance, ANOVA. When it is found that there are differences, it will compare the differences in pairs. By means of finding the Least Significant Difference. (LSD.) The Qualitative Research collected data from 12 key informants using in–depth-interview by face-to-face-interviewing. Data were analyzed by descriptive interpretation.  

Findings were as follows:

1. Level of public participation in SaKaew municipality development, SaKaew Province. By overall was at moderate level (=3.25). When considering each aspect, it was found that the participation in decision making was at =3.26, participation in the operation was at =3.28, participation in the evaluation was at =3.12, and participation in receiving shared benefits was at =3.35 All aspects were at a moderate level.

 2. The results of the comparison of public participation in community development at SaKaew municipality, SaKaew Province were found that: People with different occupations and educational levels, participation in community development in SaKaew municipality differing with statistical significance at the level 0.05. Therefore accepting the set research hypothesis. For people with different gender, age and income, participating in community development in Sakaew municipality was not at different level, rejecting the set research hypothesis.

 3. Problems and obstacles of public participation in Sakaew municipality Sakaew Province were as follows: 1) Decision; decision and work day did not match, the public address sound was rarely heard, at some point, the sound could not be heard therefore, people did not receive news and information as they should. 2) The operation of the related department; Executives seldom go to locations, people lacked knowledge, operation units were slow, did not solve problems at the right point, People are getting old, not convenient to participate in community development.  3) Receiving the shared benefits; Budget allocation is very limited, many communities did not receive the shared budget causing development was less or none.
4) Evaluation; people did not cooperate, lacked knowledge of development plans, operation units were not clear in solving community problems. Street hawkers and local people did not cooperate with developing activities.

Recommendation for public participation in community development at Sakaew municipality, Sakaew Province was that 1) Decision: there should increase public relations, news and voice along the lines thoroughly. The municipality should give equal importance to every community and provide budget equally. As for the meeting, should be held on holiday, 2) The operation; people want the mayor to enter the area to meet more people and strictly suppress narcotics clearance. Creating more jobs for teens to help generate income for the family, 3) Receiving the shared benefits; training people to educate, understand and give importance to community development seriously. Taking care of the elderly people to have a better quality of life than present. There should be activities to promote career, health with medicine and doctors in time of sickness and at the time when sons and daughters were absent, 4) The evaluation; There should have red boxes in communities for people to drop in their expressions and suggestions, knowing and solving the real problems and giving our report of evaluations to people regularly through internet or websites, et cetera.    

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