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Effectiveness of World Vision Agricultural Development Activities in Gazipur

MD. ABU NASAR UDDIN
MS. Student
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION & INFORMATION SYSTEM, SHER-E-BANGLA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, SHER-E-BANGLA NAGAR, DHAKA -1207

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

The purposes of this study were to identify the effectiveness of World Vision Agricultural Development Activities in Gazipur, to determine their selected characteristics and to explore the relationship between the selected characteristics of World Vision beneficiaries with the extent of agricultural development activities of World Vision as perceived by them. The studies also identify the problems of different agricultural development activities and their expectation to the World vision. Findings revealed that 72.4 percent of the beneficiaries had medium level of effectiveness of World Vision agricultural development activities as compared to 15.2 percent less and 12.4 percent high effectiveness. Correlation analysis indicate that six characteristics of beneficiaries namely education, family income, credit received, attitude towards World Vision activities and participation in agricultural development activities had significant positive relationships with their effectiveness of World Vision agricultural development activities. On the other hand, age had significant negative relationship. Farm size, organizational participation, communication behavior and cosmopoliteness had no relationship with their effectiveness of World Vision agricultural development activities.

Keywords: Effectiveness, world vision, agricultural development activities

Location: DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION & INFORMATION SYSTEM, SHER-E-BANGLA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, SHER-E-BANGLA NAGAR, DHAKA -1207

Start Date: 00-01-2006

End Date: 30-06-2006

Program Area: Knowledge Management

Non-commodity: Social status

Objectives:

1. To determine the Effectiveness of Agricultural Development Activities of World Vision as perceived by the beneficiaries

2. To determine and describe the selected characteristics of the World Vision Beneficiaries

- Age

- Education

- Training exposure

- Farm size

- Annual family income

- Organizational participation

- Communication behavior

- Cosmopoliteness

- Credit received

- Participation in agricultural development Activities

- Attitude towards World Vision Activities.

3. To explore the relationship between the selected characteristics of World Vision beneficiaries with the extent of effectiveness of agricultural development activities of World Vision as perceived by them.

4. To identify the problems of different agricultural development activities and expectation to World Vision.

Methodology:

Population and Sampling Techniques

Firstly 07 villages were randomly selected from the Gazipur sadar Upazilla. Twenty-one World Vision organized group were randomly selected among the total group of these villages. There were 525 beneficiaries in the selected group, which constituted the population of the study. The total lists of the 525 beneficiaries were collected from World Vision office. Among them 105 WV beneficiaries were selected randomly by taking 5 from each group. These 105 WV beneficiaries constituted the sample of the study.

.Statistical analysis

Data collected for this study were compiled, tabulated and analyzed in accordance with the objectives of the study. Qualitative data were converted into quantitative data by means of suitable scoring wherever necessary. Descriptive statistics such as number and percentage distribution, rank order, range, mean and standard deviation were measured by using SPSS package program. For exploring the relationships between the selected characteristics of the World Vision beneficiaries with the extent of effectiveness of agricultural development activities of World Vision as perceived by them, correlation analysis was used. Five-percent (0.05) level of significant was used as the basis for rejecting/accepting the null hypothesis.

Source of Information: M.S. Thesis, SEMESTER: JANUARY- JUNE, 06, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION & INFORMATION SYSTEM, SHER-E-BANGLA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, SHER-E-BANGLA NAGAR, DHAKA -1207 Title: EFFECTIVENESS OF WORLD VISION AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES IN GAZIPUR

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Achievement/Findings:

Findings revealed that 72.4 percent of the beneficiaries had medium level of effectiveness of World Vision agricultural development activities as compared to 15.2 percent less and 12.4 percent high effectiveness. Correlation analysis indicate that six characteristics of beneficiaries namely education, family income, credit received, attitude towards World Vision activities and participation in agricultural development activities had significant positive relationships with their effectiveness of World Vision agricultural development activities. On the other hand, age had significant negative relationship. Farm size, organizational participation, communication behavior and cosmopoliteness had no relationship with their effectiveness of World Vision agricultural development activities.

Knowledge Management: Thesis