Evaluation is one of the important stages in the process of planning, which helps to optimise plans and make proper decisions and increases the possibilitis and realizability of the plans. Lack of attention to this fact in the past decades, has caused heavy socio- economic and environmental costs for the body of our Islamic society, in such a way that it has confronted the country’s managment with non-optimal decesion-making. Paying more attention to evaluation and then it’s institutionali Sation can greatly help to decrease these costs. Evaluation of governmental organizations performance can play a significant role in optimising of decisions and increasing people’s satisfaction. In order to provide a scientific explanation to the imposed costs coming from missing links in the country’s planning management, an attempt was made in the present research to evaluate the performance of rural well-being complexes as governmental organisations, which have a long history in providing services for villagers. Also an attempt was made to examine the factors affecting these complexes from different aspects such as the viewpoint of villagers and personnel of the complexes. For this purpose, Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) was used. The villages of Kavardeh, Imam taghi and Deheshk in Mashad township were chosen for the field study. The findings indicated that socio-economical, physical and organisational factors are significantly effeclive on the function of the studied well-being complexes.

Keywords: Evaluation, Rural Well-being Complex, Participatory Rural Appraisal, Mashad

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