Abstract:
Dealing with small irrigation project management by encouraging stakeholders to participate in the
project is considered as an appropriate management system which met the stakeholders,
requirement. This study concerns factors affecting the people participation on management of
Huai Sa irrigation project. Objectives of study are not only to investigate factors affecting the
farmer participation but also significant level of those factors together with suitable time for
participation. The research specified 5 factors concerning; personal, budget, policy, timing and
benefit. Stakeholders are divided into 3 groups which are government officers, committee and water
user group members.
It was found that there were significant different of those factors to the participation on project
management. Literature reviews have been done on theory of participation and factors on
participation on project management. Rating scale with Likerts Method is used to frame and create
the questionnaire. It was also found that the first three significant factors were benefit factor, personal factor,
personal factor, and budget factor with the average of 4.84, 4.69 and 4.63 respectively. The
supported factors on the participation were income and quality of life, water saving and beneficiary,
transparency of project budgeting. Furthermore the most suitable time for participation by
stakeholders are as follows; benefit factor is in pre-construction period (50.49 persent), personal
factor is in post-construction period (65.05 persent), and budget factor is also in post-construction
(69.14 persent )