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Shared function modality in the delivery of community development services in a decentralized Agricultural Technology Transfer and Service Center (ATSC) in Khukhan District, Sisaket Province, Thailand
Dissertation Abstract:
This study assessed shared function modality in the delivery of community development services in a decentralized ATSC and the factors associated with its implementation. The study was conducted in four selected sub-districts in Khukhan District, Sisaket Province, Thailand. A total of 187 respondents were purposively selected representing five groups of respondents, namely: Department of Agricultural Extension (DOAE) extension agents, Tambon Administrative Organization (TAO) personnel, kasetakorns (ATSC farmer-beneficiary), ATSC steering committees, and Sisaket Provincial Agricultural Extension Office (PAEO) personnel. Data were gathered through interviews, self-administered questionnaire, focus group discussions, and secondary sources. Spearman’s Rank Order Correlation was used to determine the relationship between the independent, intervening, and dependent variables. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to identify the factors affecting the delivery of community development services in a decentralized ATSC.
Results showed that DOAE extension agents and TAO personnel had high performance level in implementing the ATSC services. Both had low perceived and actual roles and responsibilities in the implementation of the agricultural data survey, and the farmer group formation and development. In the case of the kasetakorns, they had low level of participation and low degree of empowerment in the implementation of a decentralized ATSC. The kasetakorns perceived the ATSC services as good in responsiveness.
Under the shared function modality, the DOAE extension agents’ competency of linkages is a key element in the implementation of ATSC tasks. Competency of TAO personnel in ATSC implementation was also found to be strongly associated with task performance in decentralized ATSC. In the delivery of community development services, the kasetakorns’ satisfaction with ATSC benefits was considerably important to ATSC responsiveness and people participation in a decentralized ATSC. Perceived ATSC accomplishment was also found to have the largest effect on the kasetakorns’ degree of empowerment in ATSC implementation.