Assessment of social capital in beneficiarie's network in toward local sustainable development (Case study: South Khorasan province, RFLDL project)

Social capital is one of the main factors in local sustainable development and social empowerment. The objective of present research is social capital assessment to achieving local sustainable development in Se-Qaleh city, Sarayan district in South Khorasan province, which in this area the international RFLDL project was implemented. In this research the mount of trust and cooperation ties in the stakeholder’s network was assessed in two stages before and after implementing the RFLDL project using network analysis questionnaires based on the observation and interview with all stakeholders and also measurement of network analysis indicators including; density, reciprocity, transitivity and average of geodesic distance. The results of this study show the amount of trust and cooperation or social capital before implanting the RFLDL project was in moderate status and after that the mount of those factors increased. The rate of trust and cooperation exchanges among people after implementing the project is more than before that. Implementing this project encouraged the unity among the people.