An investigation of social and subjective role on participation rate of users in Avaroud catchment

Since participation has a key role in the success of all soil and water conservation programs. Monitoring field descriptive approach was used to study 2695 people of eleven villages in Avard watershed located in Behshahr area. Cochran’s formula was used to determine the sample size (n=219) for each village using stratified random sampling method. Questionnaire was used to obtain the data and its reliability was tested by some experts. Also the validity of questioner was calculated using Cronbach Alpha from 20 primary samples, which was 0.83. In order to calculate the obtained data set, it is used central indices to classify the data and Chi-square test is employed to compare the experts and utilisers’ opinions. Spearman's rank correlation coefficient is used to determine the correlation between independence and dependence variables. Results have shown that relationship between number of sponsorship people, education level, and social altitude level with participation index in soil and water protection’s practices are not meaningful. The results showed that there is significantly difference between age, view rate to participation, flash-forward, reliance rate to different people, participation to social charters, and tendency to carrying out the plural activities with partaking adjustment in conservation practice of watershed management, especially, terrace and sediment dams. Hence, in order to protect the soil in revisory plans of watersheds, using of participative potentials of people, who live in each catchment, can guarantee the efficiency of plans as well and can also decrease the soil erosions.