GUIDELINE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BY COMMUNITY COOPERATION PROCESS OF NAN RIVER BASIN

Abstract

              The objective of this research is to 1) study the community cooperation of Nan River Basin and Sirikit dam 2) study guidelines of community sustainable development by cooperation process of Nan River Basin. The research collected data from 5 provinces ; Nan, Uttaradit, Phichit, Phitsanulok and Nakhon Sawan.

              The result found that community and Sirikit Dam cooperate in 3 ways; 1) Sirikit dam initiated annual meetings of community from upstream, midstream, and downstream since 2014 during the water management crisis. The objective of the meeting was to reduce conflict between the communities and planned to manage water together via online communication    2) Sirikit dam supported budget and contacted and coordinate the private sector to sponsor the community activities and 3) the community enterprises were founded as cashew nut farming group and ecotourism group by Sirikit Dam supported the knowledge and marketing. Along with the cooperation, the learning process of the community occurred to solve the problem. The success factors were 1) the process to initiate cooperative network to solve their problem by the community with private and local public sectors and 2) online communication procedure including many communities to share information about water management, agriculture goods trading that leaded to Sustainable Development Goals as No Poverty, Clean Water and Sanitation, Decent Work and Economic Growth and Responsible Consumption and Production.