The study aimed basically at identifying the viability of rural social
organizations in Fayoum governorate, estimating gap size between present viability
and the needed or hoped ones for the studied rural social organizations, estimating the degree of variance of the studied rural social organizations viability, identifying factors
correlated to and affecting the viability level of the studied rural social organizations in
Fayoum governorate, identifying factors correlated to and affecting the level of the
social environment utilization of the studied rural social organizations and finally
identifying the most important problems facing the studied rural social organizations
viability, and suggestions to solve them from the viewpoints of both the organizations
heads and beneficiaries.
Fayoum governorate had been selected to conduct this study. Etsa district had
been selected as it is the largest districts according to population and number of
social organizations, 85 educational organizations, 45 agricultural cooperative
associations, 12 village local units and 45 NGOs were selected to represent the sample
the studied social organizations.
A number of complementary statistical measures and techniques were utilized to
analyze the collected data including standardized "t" scores, percentages, arithmetic
mean, standard deviation, frequencies of, Pearson's correlation coefficient and
stepwise multiple regression analysis.
the most important findings of the study are as follows:
1- The largest percentage of the four organizations had low and moderate levels of total
organizational viability degree.
2- There was significant positive relationship between the viability level of the studied
rural social organizations and each of the following variables: number of villages
served by the organization, the population of the villages served by the
organization, salience, internal communications, Organizational routine,
participation in decision making, selectivity , clarity, the degree of suffering from
the problems, the attitudes towards Organizational coordination and relationships
among workers.
3- The findings showed that four of independent variables had significant positive
effects on the viability level of the studied rural social organizations. These
variables were: salience, the population of the villages served by the organization,
internal communication and the degree of suffering from the problems. These four
variables explained about (46.8%) of the total variance of organizational viability
level.