Project Evaluation of Participatory Sports Management for youth: A case study of Nong Long local government , Wiang Nong Long district, Lamphun province

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            Nowadays, Thailand has 17 million adolescences or equal to 27% of total population. Development of Children and youth is the major process in human resources. According to the development of the country, which has the potential to consider “people” as the important basics? Promoting population’s health by promote sports to create opportunities for people to play sports and exercise, to make them healthy without illness in both physical and mental ways, accord with the government policy, that  has used sports as a tool for development. One of the most important activities in the development of children and youth is sports health management. Currently, this strategy is considered by all the sectors. However, most of the promotion and management of local sporting events focus on play-to-win, which only a few people could join the event. 

            Sport competition management is the essential strategy to access sporting opportunities for all children and youth, which is the fundamental right that all the children should receive. Currently, the sport competitions are provided for only children who had excellent sport skill and often found that the competitions, which organized by organization mentioned above, has been using the same kids or group of kids in the competitions. The other general kids have no opportunities to participate in the competition, which means the right of playing sport has been limited for the children who have poor sport skill. Therefore, the considered of rights and equality of sport competition management must be emphasized and study the results and

impacts of activities, by creates the chances for the children who never participate in the sport competition to have opportunities to play sports.

            Nonglong municipal district, T.Nonglong, Wiang nong long district, Lampon province consists of 5,915 populations. There were 405 children and youth in education system, which are studying in 4 schools and 1 childcare. The main problem in community was drugs, during years 2556 there were 54 drugs cases in community; therefore Nonglong district management team focused on the promotion of youth sports activities to improve the health of young people, and not to get involve with the drug. The municipality has a policy of promoting health and mass sport activities plans, in order to makes people get healthy in all aspects (Nonglong municipal district, 2556). However, the weakness was found in the cooperation of associate members and people in community, especially the opportunity to participate in activities belong to the target group of children who have abilities in sports. Furthermore, there was no assessment of satisfaction of the sport management. Even the sports have been managed continuously, but there wasn’t any assessment to be used for a better process development or suggest the policies for the national organization. Following the evaluation covered on; 1.Equality and fairness for youth sports management policy 2.Sports Management Structure 3.Process management 4.Participation and satisfaction of associate

            Researchers were interested to find the answers for the research: “How was the assessment result in participatory sport management for youth in Nonglong municipal district, Wiang nong long district, Lampon province?” which covered project inputs, project process and project outputs/project outcomes. The aim of the evaluation is to obtain useful information for an effectively process to response people’s demands and for the further preparation of policy recommendations.