COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION THROUGH PARTICIPATORY APPROACH A Critical Assessment

This study critically evaluates the effectiveness of participatory strategy in mobilizing community for utilizing the services of development project in the tribal and feudal structure of Nasirabad area of Balochistan. The community development, which is an important component of pat feeder command area project, is analyzed in the light of research questions such as to what extent the project has been successful in mobilizing community for development and what factors have badly affected the participatory strategy of project and what are its policy implications. The data used in the study is based on both survey data and project documents, simple statistical methods like mean, standard deviation and coefficient of variance were applied. The major findings include that project has been partially successful in motivating the community towards exploiting the project resources while most of the community organizations remained unsuccessful. It was also found out that the community organizations would not remain sustainable due to institutional and financial problems, therefore, changes are needed in the participatory approach in the tribal structure of Balochistan.