Development of Coastal Resources Restoration Plan for the Koh Sukorn Area, Trang Province through Community Participation
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Abstract
The objective of this study was to formulate a coastal resources restoration plan for the Koh Sukorn area. Stakeholders comprised of three sectors: 1) community sector including community leaders, community organization (resource conservation groups, occupation groups, female groups, elderly groups, saving groups) and religion leaders, 2) public sector including local administration, Sub-district Administrative Organization, school, and sub-district health promoting hospital, and 3) private sector including aquatic local middle traders, shop, and homestay business. Participatory Action Research (PAR) was use to this study by conducting with participatory process of all sectors in the Koh Sukorn sub-district through three forums. In Forum I, stats of problems, community needs and community potential were analyzed by using need assessment together with sustainable livelihood technique and SWOT analysis, respectively. In Forum II, details of coastal resources restoration plan in the Koh Sukorn area were prepared and the coastal resources restoration plan was examined in Forum III. From the aforementioned participatory process, the resulting coastal resources restoration plan in Koh Sukorn area consisted of 5 work plans: 1) infrastructure development, 2) increase of coastal resources value and community economy, 3) knowledge management, 4) coastal resources and environmental management, and 5) promotion of social capital. Each work plan contained 5, 5, 1, 6, and 2 projects, respectively. The plan was submitted to the Koh Sukorn sub-district Administrative Organization which would be the main agency in driving the plan to implementation. The important issues of this coastal resources restoration plan will be added into the main Koh Sukorn local development plan when the community forums organized for plan revision in the future.
Keywords: Plan Development, Restoration, Coastal Resource, Trang Province
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