Davood Hasanabadi; Ahmad Haj-Alizadeh; Masood Heidarvand
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Social capital is one of the main factors for local sustainable development and social empowerment. The objective of present research is social capital assessment to achieve local sustainable development in Se-Qaleh city, Sarayan district in South Khorasan province, where the international RFLDL project ...
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Social capital is one of the main factors for local sustainable development and social empowerment. The objective of present research is social capital assessment to achieve local sustainable development in Se-Qaleh city, Sarayan district in South Khorasan province, where the international RFLDL project was implemented. In this research, the level of trust and cooperation ties in the stakeholder’s network was assessed in two stages i.e. before and after implementing the RFLDL project using network analysis questionnaires based on observation and interview with all stakeholders and also through the measurement of network analysis indicators including; density, reciprocity, transitivity and average of geodesic distance. The results of this study show the amount of trust and cooperation or social capital before implanting the RFLDL project was in moderate status but it increased post project implementation. The rate of trust and cooperation exchanges among people after implementing the project grew higher than before. Implementing this project as well enhanced the unity among the people.
Mehdi Ghorbani; Leila Avazpour; Mohsen Yoosefi
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Social capital is one of the most important criteria related to social network resilience. In trust networks as the most important factor of social capital in adaptive governance, sensitivity to disorders and irregularities is considerable and resiliency improvement and compatibility capacity depends ...
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Social capital is one of the most important criteria related to social network resilience. In trust networks as the most important factor of social capital in adaptive governance, sensitivity to disorders and irregularities is considerable and resiliency improvement and compatibility capacity depends on trust level in network. This research is applied in Zangooi village, South Khorasan province where international project ROLL is operated. In this research social capital in local beneficiaries is studied to enhance resilience in pilot village. Trust and cooperation ties are studied based on survey method and network analysis questionnaires and direct interviews with actors (members of rural development small groups). Results show that trust, cooperation, cohesion and social capital is at average level before RFLDL project and after operating this project these indices increase and reach optimum level. The speed of trust and cooperation exchange through people increases after operating the project and this develops unification and alliance between members. At last it can be concluded that conveying this project increases trust and cooperation and social capital, so resilient social systems have undoubtedly much more trust level.