Abstract:
In the rural water supply projects, community participation is one of the important factors in terms of achieving goals of development activities. Participation of people is known as the most effective way in promoting and achieving sustainability of rural development projects particularly in developing countries.Women's participations in large scale of rural water supply projects lead to improve projects' success.The present study was designed to identify the linkage between women's participation and th project success among rural communities in Jaffna & Kilinochchi through ADB 6 funded Project (Improving community based rural water supply & sanitation project). Primary data and secondary literature reviews were used to conduct this study. A total number of 200 women were selected from five project areas in Jaffna and Kilinochchi on simple random sampling basis.Again 25 community based organization members were selected for in-depth interview in same way.The result reveals that there was a strong linkage between women's participation and project success.Women's participation at the levels observed in this study is found to have strong relationship to project success.This study would hopefully benefit the project report writers on rural water supply projects,researchers,policy-makers, academicians, undergraduate students and practitioners of Sri Lanka and other similar countries through exploring the women's participation in rural water supply and pursuing policy to improve the current status of it.
