Community Participation in Implementation of District Agriculture Sector Investment Project. The Case of Kishapu District in Tanzania.

Matemu, Barbina John (2023) Community Participation in Implementation of District Agriculture Sector Investment Project. The Case of Kishapu District in Tanzania. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

The study aimed atexamining the community participation in implementation of the District Agriculture Sector Investment Project in Kishapu District Council. Specifically, the study sought to: identify socioeconomic characteristics of households associated with community participation, to determine the level of community in implementation of village micro-projects, to examine the attitudes of community towards participation in implementation of village micro-projects, and to examine constraints that hindered community in implementation of village micro-projects. The structured interview was used as the main method of data collection from 120 respondents who were randomly selected. The collected data were analyzed using quantitative and qualitative approaches. The findings of the study showed that education level, main occupation, previous experience, livestock possession and awareness of community on government emphasis had statistically significant relationship to community participation. The study also revealed that the respondents had positive attitude towards community participation in implementation of micro-projects. The major constraints that hindered community in implementation of the project were: delay submission of building maps from the national project headquarter(Mwanza), food insecurity, and water shortage during dry season. The study recommends mobilizing community members to increase their participation levels in implementation of village micro-projects; and both Government and project leaders at ii all levels (village-national) should jointly facilitate community members to solve major constraints. Keywords: Effectiveness, Community involvement, Agricultural project

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