2010年在台灣農村再生條例通過後,政府大力推動農村組織由下而上提出的建設,因此在地農村社區組織的活力與能力,這也牽動著社區的整體發展。每個農村擁有不同的文化、環境、產業及生態,形成社區組織擁多面向的能力,但面對台灣農村再生發展共同的進程,也因社區基本條件不同,未來發展願景、目標也都相異。社區在參與農村再生過程中,不可能所有問題在農村社區組織有能力可以解決;部分可以解決,部分無法解決,因而造成社區發展的遲滯或停止,這也成為農村社區在發展過程的關鍵問題。故本研究以社區發展時所遇到的困境來探討社區能力與社區發展之間的關係,社區能力發展已成功歸納,以組織力、凝聚力、執行力、導入力、永續力的五大指標(梁大慶,2016),導入農村再生發展進程,以台灣農業大縣(雲林縣)内農村社區為對象.在2015-2016年參與過農村再生計畫總計168個社區,取樣45個社區,399份有效問卷。研究結果發現社區在凝聚力普遍較高,顯示培根計畫確實有達到社區共識之效益。另在執行力上遇到較多的困境,如計畫提案、社區人力不足等。但值得觀察的是,社區對永續力方面普遍不足,仍然遇到改選、換屆等接續上的問題,在這方面仍然需要長期支持及輔導。
With rapid social changes, local residents have expected a better life quality and it influences community development. Each community has different features and geographic characters, which can form community capacity; however, since different targets and objectives, each community may encounter different problems. During the community development process, some experienced communities can easily solve the dilemmas; however, still others may be unable to solve them due to lack of experience. Thus, the situation has become the biggest difficulty during community development. Therefore, we tried to explore the relationship between community capacity and community development. We sum up five indicators, including organization power, sustainability, cohesion power, import power, and implementation ability to analyze community capacity. We took the rural communities in Yunlin County as the researcher objects, and assumed the Rural Rejuvenation Program is the factor which may improve community capacity to analyze the current situation on social, environmental, and economic dimensions. Analytic Hierarchy quantitative methodology are applied to show the trend of community development to understand each rural community's strength and weakness in Yunlin County for sustainable development.