The Development of Community Solid Waste Management Process By The Nong Loeng Subdistrict Health Assembly Mueang Bueng Kan District Bueng Kan Province

Abstract

 This research is an action research in the form of participatory action research. The objective is to study the development of the community waste management process by the Nong Leng Sub-district Health Assembly, Mueang Bueng Kan District, Bueng Kan Province. The target group consists of 108 health assembly operation groups and 1,275 local volunteers who love the world (LVL). Quantitative and qualitative data were collected using an interview questionnaire, a knowledge test, and an assessment form. Data were analyzed using mean, standard deviation, frequency, percentage,and Paired simple t-test.

          The results of the study found that there were 8 steps: 1) Study community context data, review, and analyze the community's waste problem situation, 2) Appoint a committee for the Nong Leng Sub-district Health Assembly operation, 3) Hold a workshop, 4) Drive the action plan into practice, 5) Supervise and monitor the operation, 6) Evaluate the operation, collect data, 7) Exchange knowledge, and 8) Extract lessons learned from using the said health assembly process. This resulted in the target group of the health assembly operation group having knowledge, roles, participation, and satisfaction in community waste management increasing significantly at the statistical level of 0.05. The local volunteer group that loves the world (LVL) had knowledge, participation, and satisfaction in community waste management increasing significantly at the statistical level of 0.05. The success factors in the development of community waste management process by the Nong Leng Subdistrict Health Assembly, Mueang Bueng Kan District, Bueng Kan Province were: 1) Policy: The local administrators of Nong Leng Subdistrict Municipality, Mueang Bueng Kan District, Bueng Kan Province emphasized community waste management. It has been set as the policy of Nong Leng Subdistrict Municipality to manage waste from the source. 2) Participation: All sectors participate in decision-making, operations, benefits, and evaluation of the results of the community waste management of Nong Leng Subdistrict to pass the evaluation criteria for community waste management. “Clean Province” 3) Monitoring and evaluation by exchanging knowledge together, called “NETWORK”, until it developed into a model for developing the community waste management process of Nong Loeng Subdistrict, called the “NONGLOENG Model”.