Collaborative Needs Assessment for prioritizing and assessing problems and shortcomings is a process based on a community-based management approach that addresses different aspects of the needs of rural and local communities in arid areas and is one of the most important principles in rural planning. In this study, the role of a participatory needs assessment of rural communities in order to prioritize rural development indices using AHP hierarchical analysis method. The study area is located in the southwest of Khorasan Razavi province. In this study, a questionnaire method was used and part of the information was extracted from the rural participatory evaluation reports in the study area. Descriptive statistics were used to achieve the desired results by SPSS software. Statistical analysis is split into two types of descriptive and inferential statistics, which we use in the descriptive statistics section to summarize the large amounts of data we have. Our statistical population, which is the same set of people in the region that we surveyed through part of the questionnaire, and we generalize the results at the end, is 6 households and a total of 15 individuals. The results showed that by properly and timely identifying the needs of local utilities, in addition to appropriate decision making, the implementation of the development prospects of the area could be facilitated. The results also show that providing a framework for developing the trust and cooperation of villagers in a way that they perceive themselves as having an important role in society, will result in projects that require rural cooperation in less time and at a cheaper cost happen.

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