The Success factors of Rural Development Program : A Comparative Case Study on Sam Sang Project in Laos = 농촌개발사업의 성공요인에 관한 비교 연구: 라오스의 삼상 프로젝트를 중심으로

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study is to inquire into the success and failure factors of Sam Sang project and its beneficiary from this project. The Sam Sang project makes an effort to achieve to improve citizen living standard in local community that had focused on rural villages which are poor, not be good infrastructure, low income and other facilities; and also for creating new conditions and new requirements of developing country, achieving targets to reduce poverty of households to below 10% and achieve MDGs by 2015; to graduate the Nation form Less Developing Country (LDC) by 2020. The comparative case study is examined depending on qualitative data from field survey based on Sam Sang project implementation in Pakseuang village, Luangpabang district and Nayangneua village, Nambak district, Luangpabang province, Lao PDR. The study discloses Sam Sang project implementation synopsis, influential factors of succeed and failure, and the particular roles of
actors how be influenced the Sam Sang implementation in village level
among two villages and how Nayangneua case is more successful than
Pakseuang case. A set of fourteen issues based on local government
leadership and village’s participation with the respective success factors of
implementing project such as roles of district chief, and roles of public
organization in district level; and villagers’ participation, and working process
that played important roles on implementing Sam Sang project to create
village as development unit. The comparative analysis uncovers a several
numbers of significant differences on these four independent variables among
Pakseuang village is less success or failed and Nayangneua village is more
successful. Especially, the issues of clear understanding of Pakseuang village
failed on public officials in district facilitated to stimulate job creation such as
supporting capital sources and job training; and villager participation on
solving problem, decision-making with the issue that happened on Sam Sang
implementation period. By contrast, Nayangneua case did not have any these
problems as Pakseuang village. These essential differences are the most
important achievement of the study and consequently theoretical advancement
was created for forward research and development in the field of rural
development and local government administration. In practical circumstances,
if the major findings and implication of the study are applied to other districts
or provinces in Laos considering the independent variables as identical in
nature of uniqueness of rural development perspective, it may contribute to
better improvement of Sam Sang project implementation. The local
government may consider the recommendations for sustainable development and improvement of Sam Sang project in phase II. The comparative study makes space to forward research and development and speeds up more profound analysis of research problem by using the theories, methods, concepts and contents used. Besides that, a comparative study could be made between two consecutive Sam Sang cycles of the same province or among two or more districts of different areas for Sam Sang project implementation in future. Finally, the study can be utilized by local government officials, policy implementers, researchers and development partners in the field of rural development programs in Laos.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Chapter I: Introduction 1
• I.1. Background and Purposes of the Study 1
• I.2. Method and Scope of the Study 3
• Chapter II: Theoretical Background 5
• II.1. Rural Development 5
• II.2. Governance 7
• II.3. Leadership 9
• II.4. Relationship between governance and leadership 11
• II.5. Civil Participation 13
• II.6. Critical Review 15
• Chapter III: Research Design and Analytical Framework 22
• III.1. Analytical Framework 22
• III.1.1. Local Government 22
• III.1.2. Participation of villages 25
• III.2. Methodology and Case Study Design 28
• Chapter IV: Overview of Sam Sang Project in Laos 34
• IV.1. Historical of Sam Sang Project 34
• IV.2. Purpose of the Sam Sang 37
• IV.3. Sam Sang Strategy 37
• IV.4. Sam Sang Implementation Units 42
• IV.5. Comparative Case Study between Before and After Verification Stages in Luangpabang province in 2012-2015 Cycle. 46
• Chapter v: Analysis 54
• V.1. Successful Village 54
• V.1.1. Local Government 54
• V.1.1.1. Chief of District 54
• V.1.1.2. Public Organization in District level 57
• V.1.2. participation of Village 61
• V.1.2.1. Chief of Village 61
• V.1.2.2. Leaders of Production Group 63
• V.1.2.3. Members of Production Group 64
• V.2. Unsuccessful Village 67
• V.2.1. Local Government 67
• V.2.1.1. Chief of District 67
• V.2.1.2. Public Organization 70
• V.2.2. participation of Village 74
• V.2.2.1. Chief of Village 74
• V.2.2.2. Leaders of Production Group 76
• V.2.2.3. Members of Production Group 77
• V.3. Comparison between Nayangneua village and Pakseuang village 80
• V.4. Syntheses 84
• V.4.1. Leadership of Local Government 85
• V.4.2. Villages Participation 86
• Chapter VI: Conclusion 89
• VI.1. Summary of Analysis 89
• VI.1.1. Leadership of Local Government 89
• VI.1.2. Villager Participation 90
• VI.2. Recommendation 91
• VI.2.1. Local Government 91
• VI.2.2. Civil Participation 92
• VI.3. Contribution 92
• VI.4. Limitations of the Study 93
• References 95
• List of Abbreviations and Acronyms 97
• Annexation 99
• Korean Abstract 103 Acknowledgements 106