THE FEASIBILITY STUDYING FOR FLOOD MANAGEMENT OF THE LOCAL ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION IN THE ECONOMIC AREA OF RAYONG PROVINCE UNDER THE CONCEPT OF LOCAL GOVERNANCE -

Abstract

          This research aimed to study the feasibility for the flood management of the local administrative organization in the economic area of Rayong Province under the concept of local governance. The researcher used the qualitative research methodology by collecting data from 30 key informants such as: government network representatives, private networks, and people who affected by the floods in the economic area of Rayong Province. Data were collected byin-depth interview, focus group and observation and data were analyzed using content analysis in contextual unit.

          The research found that the feasibility for the flood management of the local administrative organizations in the economic area of Rayong Province under the concept of local administration, the government must reduce the role of the state and open the area for other non-state actors to truly participate in public administration of the public benefit by the government have only the role of director and coordinator, by applying the concept of governance as guideline for flood management which has importance principles consisting of the collaboration: collaboration between institutions and organizations that were members of the organization’s network, the negotiation: negotiation policy-makers with actors; the flexibility, the network need to be a flexible organization, network administrators used flexibility principles and have the ability to adapt to lead to project results; the trust, the network interacted consistently within the network, there was trust among members, to be supervised flood management in accordance with the government policy framework that has been set by the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Act 2007 and the National Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Plan 2015, to increase the capacity to be able to support management disaster that occur in those areas withMaximum efficiency.