Community Development: A Veritable Tool for Achieving National Development in Nigeria.

Abstract

No doubt, no any government world over can be able to provide all necessary
needs of life to its communities. The aims and objectives of this paper is to stress the importance of encouraging communities to embark on Community Development projects in other words, self-help projects. Government (Federal, state and Local) seriously mount enlightenment campaign through their various organs to enlighten its communities to embark upon self-help projects in order to enhance or to complement government efforts in providing social amenities to their communities.
In this paper, efforts and attempts were made to identify the criteria for selecting community projects and some underlying problems affecting the success of community projects were discussed. Consequently, the efforts of women in community development programmes were also intensified. The writer was also able to analyze the role of community development in the National Planning Policy and suggest the way forward in achieving this strategy.

LWATI: A Journal of Contemporary Research Vol. 5 2008: pp. 320-330