The Participation of Supportings Guideline for Ban nong bua Community Forest Management, Roi-et Province

Abstract

The main objective of this research is to study and support community participation in forest management of Ban nong bua community forest, Ban nong bua, Roi et. According to this study, using Quantitative and Qualitative Methods included with 3 steps as following details; 1) to study context and problems of forest management 2) to analyze the level of community participation in forest management. 3) to search for supporting community participation in forest management. The area of doing the reserch is Ban nong bua, Suvannabhum District, Roi-et Province, Ban nong bua, Roi et by means of focusing on the community leaders, village elders and government and private representatives 9 and using quantitative method of 283 representative households at the age of 18 upward. The qualitative datas is used to content analysis and the quantitative datas is used to describe statistics, percentage, mean and standard deviation.The study indicated that in the past Ban nong bua community forest is located in Ban nong bua community forest, Ban nong bua, Ban nong bua, Roi-et. The size of this community forest is 1200 RAI. It is a mixed forest. the benefits of the forest are food source, place for learning community and the eco-tourism. This Research founded that appropriate forms of community forest management. The model                             of multi –purpose community forest management based on culture. The procedures of community participation in forest management are divided into 3 steps; 1) to aware of the community participation 2) to create groups and network and 3) to sustainable forest management. moreover, the main element factors in this involvement of community forest management are the leaders, villagers, outside organizations supporting, with the following conditions; time, age, income, occupation that effectively support community participation in Ban nong bua community forest management completely.