Analysis of Non-Governmental Organizations' Challenges for Participation in Agricultural Development Policy-Making

The main purpose of this paper was examining challenges of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for participation in agricultural development policy-making. The Statistical population of study composed of experts of Agricultural and Natural Resources Engineering (ANRE) Organizations at province level (N=349). 112 of the experts of ANRE selected randomly in two stages which determined by Cochran formula. The data were collected by questionnaire which its face and content validity was approved by a panel of experts. For measuring the reliability of questionnaire, the Cronbach's alpha coefficient was applied and the obtained coefficient for participation in policy-making process and challenges parts were, 0.92 and 0.78, respectively. These amounts showed that research instrument was reliable. Exploratory factor analysis showed that challenges facing NGOs in agricultural development policy-making in the "external factors", "communication gap" and "internal factors" were identified. The most important challenges were related to external factors, especially laws and regulations of NGOs.