THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CREATION OF COMMUNITY LIFE POLICY ACCORDING TO THE SUFFICIENCY ECONOMY PHILOSPHY, IN THE CONTEXT OF THE AREA OF LAO KHWAN DISTRICT, KANCHANABURI PROVINCE

Abstract

The objectives were to describe the current situation of the implementation of the creation of community life policy according to the sufficiency economy philosophy; and to propose a proper model for implementing the creation of community life policy based on sufficiency economy philosophy, in the context of Lao Khwan District, Kanchanaburi Province. Employing qualitative methodology, researcher assessed a case study by the inductive analysis from the documents, in-depth interviews, and focus group. The key informants consisted of 32 people, namely, government officials, and people who were the stakeholders. Findings revealed that the current situation of the policy implementation included the relevant departments assigned a number of additional urgent missions, causing an obstacle to policy implementation; and the leader communicated for policy implementation by abstraction, leading to difficulty to understand; and a proper model for policy implementation consisted of flexible activities and operation timing that can change by the area context; an easy-to-understand information by government officials; law amendments and regulations; and increasing diversity of household careers.