پديد آورندگان :
ميرزايي، حسين نويسنده , , غفاري، غلامرضا نويسنده ghaffari, gholamreza , كريمي، عليرضا نويسنده ,
چكيده لاتين :
Extended Abstract
Introduction
Today empowerment has been turned into one of the main concepts of sustainable
development. Three types of relationship between empowerment and sustainable
development are as follows: 1- Empowerment is a component of sustainable
development 2- Empowerment is the cause of sustainable development3-
Empowerment is the result of sustainable development. Therefore it is not possible
achieve a sustainable development lacking empowerment of villagers. Empower the
villagers is affected by many factors, such as: background variables and Effects of
plans and projects implemented in rural areas. This article studies the background
variables of individuals as well as the effects of a steel factory on the empowerment
of villagers. The study area is an industrialized rural district of Yalghuz Agaj in
Qorveh county. Different definitions have been presented about the concept of
empowerment. This is due to two factors: 1- Empowerment is a multidimensional
concept; and. 2- Empowerment is used in various fields such as management,
psychology, geography, agriculture, sociology, etc. Empowerment as the ward
shows is a process to empower people through which they can overcomes feelings
of their helplessness and inabilities. There are many advantages to empower such as
having access to the basic needs, satisfaction, self - esteem, sense of belonging and
commitment, reducing the costs when increasing the profits, increasing
participation, etc. Empowerment has many dimensions that they can be classified in
the six dimensions of economic, political, mental, social, legal and cultural. The
economic empowerment, as well as the social and mental one is more important than
the others. Various factors are involved in the process of empowering the villagers
that background variables of individuals act as an important factor. Different studies
show the influence of background variables on empowerment through different
factors such as employment, income, education, gender and age. In addition to the
mentioned variables, empowerment of individuals is influenced by development
policies. The opinions are about the social and economic benefits of industry in rural
areas can be stated as follows. From the viewpoint of economy, industrializing the
rural areas includes many advantages such as, increasing farmersʹ incomes,
employment opportunities and job security as well. Such a process could accelerate
rural economic empowerment and thus cause non - agricultural job opportunities,
reduce the income gap between rural and urban households and between the rural
households the meselves. Development of rural industry from the viewpoint of
social and mental factors lead to increased subjective and objective welfare,
increasing of trust and development of social relationships that causes positive
results like increased social and mental empowerment of villagers.
Methodology
In this study, survey method has been used to the issue. The study population of case –
study two rural districts Yalghuz Agaj and Qaslan in Qorveh county, Kurdistan
province. These two rural districts are similar in many aspects and characteristics
such as geographical location, the number of villages under the authority,
population, language, religion, possibilities and services etc. The main difference is
a steel factory which is located in Yalghuz Agaj that turned the district to an
industrial one, with Qaslan lacks it. Using the Cochran formula 136 households were
selected were selected from Yalghuz Agaj rural district and 121 households from the
other, Qaslan. In each household an individual was selected in the range of 25 to 65
years old, as a sample.
Results
Among the studied background variables in rural empowerment the relationships
between the factors of age, education, income and job have been confirmed; but
relationships with other background variables (sex, family size and number of
employed people in household) have not been confirmed. Relationship between
rural economic empowerment have been approved with five background variables
including age, education, income, occupational status and the number of employed
individuals in household. Relationship between social empowerment have loin
confirmed with four background variables (age, education, and income and job
status) and mental empowerment is related with three background variables (age,
education and job status). The important finding is that the regional industrialization
has not influenced any aspect of rural empowerment.
Conclusion
The steel factory in Yalghuz Agaj lacks the local labor and there fore the
interactions between the workers and villagers are at the lowest possible level. In
fact, the industry is as an isolated part of rural community, so the factory has no
impacts on it. The results show that the established industry in the region does not
act an effective role on rural empowerment. In other words, the primary purposes of
manufacturing industry have not been achieved in the rural district. Rural
industrialization requires a careful study of characteristics of industry and village.
Rural industrialization requires compatible industries with the needs and necessities
of rural community, so the villagers could work there.