Community-based Management, Improving Social Capital and Sustainable Rural Development

The present paper analyzes the role of community-based management in improving social capital and participation of local stakeholders in projects and programs, in the process of sustainable rural development of rural in Baneh County. This study has been done by using a quantitative-survey method and questionnaire. The findings show that there is a significant relationship between effective and impressionable indicators. In other words, although “community-based management” guarantees the improvement of social capital and the productive participation of local stakeholders in rural development plans and programs, in the process of sustainable rural development, but the formation of management based on a “government-based” and “bottom-up” approach has resulted to passive participation in the study area and has failed to promote social awareness, social cohesion, social organization, social networking, social trust and social participation in the process of sustainable rural development. Therefore, it needs to change the rural management system’s approach, shift the status of imperfect and centralized management into participatory and decentralization management, Consider the effective factors in formatting community-based management in improving social capital in the process of sustainable rural development