Community-based Empowerment by Building Capacity Approach in Rural Areas of Sistan and Balochetan Province: An Introduction of GT

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Velayat University - Doctor of Public Administration, Sistan & Baluchestan University. Sistan & Baluchestan, Iran.

2 Associate Professor, Department of Management, Sistan & Baluchestan University. Sistan & Baluchestan, Iran.

Abstract

The main purpose of the research is designing community-based empowerment pattern with capacitating approach in rural regions of Sistan and Baluchistan Province. The methodology is qualitative and based on grounded theory that its process consists of three phases such as open, axial and selective coding and is implemented through depth interview with experts in this field. So, semi-structured with 18 experts in this field (containing organizational managers, academic professors and social facilitators) by using purposeful approach and using conceptual saturation criterion. The results from data analysis during 3 steps coding identified 286 concept that by more filterings and omitting duplicated items finally 269 saturated concepts were made that in axial coding were categorized in 27 categories and in this research they are proposed in paradigm model such as: reasoned circumstances (abundant potential abilities and potentials, population and environmental structure, placing the rural regions in boundary area, being high the poverty and deprivation index, the importance of rural development in national development, the growth of rural migration into cities), phenomenon orientation (capacitating the domestic community), strategies (economic, entrepreneurial and employment, educating and psychologic, institutional, organizational and legal, cultural and social, team making, networking and domestic management), basic situations (personal, environmental and organizational factors), intermediating factors (social and cultural factors, educational factors, institutional and governmental factors, economic factors, environmental and geographical factors) and outcomes (entrepreneurship development in rural regions, activating the community and domestic stakeholders, improving cultural and educational status, ascending social capital, domestic capacitating, improving health and welfare indexes) and in selective coding phase, by using “story handwriting” and “memory writing” the main category is related to other categories and the social oriented empowerment pattern is edited and offered.

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