The Role of Community People to Achieve Self Reliance: A Study of Srijana Bikash Kendra Pokhara, Kaski

Abstract

This study was completed through community people’s involvement and participation at all stages of goal selection, mobilization of resources execution of community development centers enabling the institution to achieve self-reliance. The collective effort, sense of ownership, empowerment, and representation of marginal groups in development activities and programs of community people in finding their solutions are more massively remarkable to be self-reliant. The imported and imposed resources ultimately create dependency. To resist the dominance of dependency the community people work together to improve own their lives, the result is permanent strengthening the capacity of local people and renewed hope for the prosperous future. By revolving round the issues of participation ,empowerment of local people, ,representation of marginal in the mainstream of development pogroms of Sirjana Bikas Kendra is minutely studied with the theoretical and conceptual framework of people-centre or grass-root level development approach in which people to be self-reliant. This study throws light upon the people’s participation or the role of community people to be self-reliant in case of the Sirjana Development Cent , Pokhara, Kaski which is located at the Pokhara –sub metropolitan city Ward no 8, Simalchaur, Pokhara. The researcher applied both qualitative approach and descriptive to explore various indicators and aspects in terms of SDC development in general and the role of community people for achieving self-reliant in particular. This study conducted the in the periphery of Srijana Bikas Kendra in which 40 local community people and 15 active members of the intuition had been purposively sampled from the community on the parameters of age gender religion ,occupation, ethnicity, involvement etc. The study consisted of both primary and secondary data to justify the study by applying the revisit of journals smarika case study unstructured interview observation focus group discussion and opinion based questionnaire among various local people and active members. The study shed light upon the lessons and challenges related to local people’s participation as well as the working patterns of the community people. Furthermore it emphasizes upon the role of community people who should have taken the initiation first to develop the sense of ownership .Foreign aid - support and help is reduced and this center is moving forward for achieving the self reliant. Collective effort, team building, co-ordination effective communication, mutual understating, unity sense of ownership involvement of community people, women empowerment, representation of women and children with various factors are responsible to achieve self-reliance. In nutshell, the process of achieving self-reliance is hindered with the involvement of people in each and every sustainable development process i.e. from planning functioning monitoring and evaluation stage and the sense of ownership ultimately brings self-reliant. For this, participation, empowerment representation of marginal group is key for determining the success of community development programs.