Decentralization and citizen participation is the key element of local autonomy. Community Center is the institutional mechanism to induce citizen's participation in which local governments and citizens may co-product and build community.
The communit...
Decentralization and citizen participation is the key element of local autonomy. Community Center is the institutional mechanism to induce citizen's participation in which local governments and citizens may co-product and build community.
The community center(inhabitnats' autonomy center) in Korea is only in starting period, so it is necessary for inhabitants to participate in spontaneously. In this reason We should prepare preceding environment to activate local autonomy organization. Community center(inhabitants' autonomy center) should be maintained and assessed by the aspect to increase cultural and welfare function, to establish local community, to improve their thought, and to increase efficiency of local administration by decreasing administrational level structure.
The analyse result of this study is summarized as follows. First, it is necessary that community center( inhabitants' community center) take over the convenience function of a basic local government office. Second, as for cultural and welfare facilities and convenient facilitates of the center for them, residents want welfare facilities for the old who live alone or have no person to take care and the handicapped. Third, the center should prepare the administrational services to minimize their inconvenience and it should do the role as the field to increase their resident thought. Some civil organizations and central agencies are pointing out problems such as the uniformity and redundancy of programs of resident centers, lack of resident activity programs, unclear distinction between centers, lack of residents' participation, poor sense of services of committee members, etc. It is necessary to expand convenience and welfare facilities, to improve specialty of program leaders, to diversify programs for housewives to draw various groups of housewives, to adjust time so that a larger number of people can use the facilities, and finally to encourage the participation of resident volunteers and committee members.
Data for analysing the efficiency of community center(inhabitants' community center) were collected by questionnaires at Seoul, Korea. Questionnaires were distributed and collected from May 1 to May 30. The data were analyzed by DEA using EMS1.3 program.
The limit of this study includes the representative of answers to questionnaires used for the analysis, no nation-wide analysis and comparison, and difficulty in various approaches due to insufficient previous studies.