Impacts of Korean NGO on the Philippine rural development : a case study of sorok uni foundation

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Impacts of Korean NGO on the Philippine Rural Development: A Case Study of Sorok Uni Foundation
February 2012
Rhean Ramos Delos Reyes, B.A., University of the Philippines - Diliman
M.A., Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Directed by: Professor Ekra Miezan
The main objective of this research study was to investigate the plausible impacts of South Korean NGO (hereinafter referred to as ?DKorean NGO＼) on the Philippine rural community, with emphasis on Sorok Uni Foundation. Three research questions were then formulated to frame the study, such as: How is the Korean NGO helping the Philippine rural community in development areas such as health and sanitation, basic education, and livelihood? What are the setbacks and challenges faced by the Korean NGO in implementing their programs in the Philippines? Does the Korean NGO apply Participatory Development Theory in carrying out their programs in the Philippine rural communities? Participatory Development was operationally defined as ?Da process through which stakeholders can influence and share control over development initiatives, and over the decisions and resources that affect themselves.＼
A survey was employed to collect the data through a questionnaire, which was sampled to Filipino respondents (and program participants of Sorok Uni Foundation, Inc. or
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SUFI) to measure their perception, feelings, or attitude toward the impacts of the Korean NGO in their community. Overall findings show that Income after participating the SUFI program is the strongest indicator among all the demographic variables, and against all the dependent variables. This signifies that respondents with low income who have previously participated SUFI program tend to agree on the indices of program participation, perception, implementation, evaluation and participatory development, as opposed to those with high income who have previously participated SUFI program. Explicitly, the findings from this investigation project reveal that SUFI provides beneficial socio-economic impacts to the participants of the program.
The association between perception of, and participation in, the SUFI program is an indication that the Korean NGO is effectively implementing its poverty alleviation programs to the rural community in the Philippines.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• INTRODUCTION 1
• A. Rationale of the Study 4
• B. Research Questions 6
• C. Operational Definition of Key Terms / Concepts 7
• D. Historical Overview of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) 9
• E. Brief Background on the Growth of NGOs in South Korea 10
• I. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT 12
• A. Participative Development Approach
• 1. New Community Movement or Saemaul Undong (Korean Case Study) 14
• 2. US African Development Foundation Approach to Participatory Development (Guinea Case Study) 16
• B. Conclusion 18
• II. KOREAN DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE IN THE PHILIPPINES 20
• A. The Philippines: As a Recipient Country
• 1. Poverty Alleviation Programs in the Philippines 20
• 2. NGOs in the Philippines 22
• B. South Korea: From a Recipient to a Donor Country
• 1. Overview of Korean Official Development Assistance (ODA) 24
• 2. KOICA – NGO Partnerships 26
• 3. Overview of NGOs in Korea 28
• 4. Sorok Uni Foundation, Inc. (SUFI) 29
• III. METHODOLOGY
• A. Methodology 33
• B. Sample and Data Collection 33
• C. Questionnaire 34
• D. Sample
• 1. The Survey Sample 35
• 2. The Demographics of the Sample 35
• E. Plan of Analysis
• 1.Coding the Dependent Variables 37
• 2. Creating Indices of the Dependent Variables 38
• 3. Frequencies, Coding and Recoding of Independent Variables 40
• 4. Measuring Associations and Interactions
• a. Correlation Analysis, Factor Analysis, and Reliability Analysis 41
• b. Multiple Regression Analysis and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) 41
• IV. INVESTIGATING AND INTERPRETING THE IMPACTS OF KOREAN NGO (SUFI) IN THE PHILIPPINE RURAL COMMUNITY 47
• A. Indices Construction
• 1. Index of Program Participation 48
• 2. Index of Program Perception 49
• 3. Index of Program Evaluation 50
• 4. Index of Program Impacts (Economic) 51
• 5. Index of Program Impacts (Social) 52
• V. MEASURING THE IMPACTS OF KOREAN NGO (SUFI) IN THE PHILIPPINE RURAL COMMUNITY 64
• A. Answering the Research Questions 67
• VI. DISCUSSION, IMPLICATIONS, AND SUGGESTIONS
• A. Discussion and Implications 89
• B. Suggestions 91
• C. Limitations to the Study 94
• VII. CONCLUSION 96
• APPENDICES
• A. Questionnaire for SUFI Participants (English version) 101
• B. Questionnaire for SUFI Participants (Filipino version) 107
• BIBLIOGRAPHY 112