Description
INTRODUCTION
Local government has and will continue to be of the prime mort of development in different parts of the world and their importance and impact on the daily activities of citizens cannot be over emphasized.
The terms local government refers to a political authority set up by a nation as a subordinate authority for the purpose of dispensing or decentralizing (political) power in the English souse, it means local self government.
Local government is a political sub-division of a national government or in federal system, a sub-division of regional government in fact local government administration so intentioned with community development that any discussion on one out of necessity involves in essence was created solidly to bring development to the community at the grass-roots.
Community development is with a new ideology. It is defined as a process by which the efforts of the people themselves are lives with those of government authorities to improve the economic social and cultural conditions of the communities to integrate into the life of active and to enable them to fully contribute to the national progress.
Also the role of local government at the local level is clearly recognized as one of the underlying basis of the 1976 local government reformed which emphasizes that none of the principle objective of local government is to mobilize human and material resources through the involvement of members of the public in the promotion of local government many communities had built schools constructed roads bridges and organized higher education, scholarship schemes for linear children etc.
Community development as we recognize today is based on and has grown out of experience of the past.
What is new is that these principles are now becoming more widely recognized than ever before the principles of community development are not new, but it is the emphasis which makes almost a revolutionary. The concept of community development is based on the faith in the ability of people to learn to help them attain improved standard of living building better communities taking one one step at a time. Rural development has thus remained one of the priority items of the programmes of one administration. In draining up the blue print for rural development government of Abia State aims primarily at sensitizing and mobilizing the people at the grass-root level and deliberately and actively involving them in effective community development encouraging integrated and multi-dimension approach community development for the government to achieve the grass-roots development it must get closer to the people community development groups and local government should work very closely because for instance a service project such as maternity dispensary or school which is built without the relevant main tenancy expense of such service are usually too heavy to be borne unaided to such.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
i Title page
ii Approval page
iii Dedication
iv Acknowledgement
v Abstract
vi Table of content
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 introduction
1.1 background of the study
1.2 statement of the problem
1.3 objective of the study
1.4 research question
1.5 significant of the study
1.6 scope of the study
1.7 limitation of the study
1.8 definition of terms
CHAPTER TWO
2.0 Literature review
2.1 concept definition of community development
2.2 historical background of community development
2.3 role of local government council in community development
2.4 major constraint in bende
2.5 achievement of bende
2.6 implementation strategies to rural development
2.7 steps for effective rural development
2.8 other organizations involved in community development
CHAPTER THREE
3.0 Research design
3.1 sources/methods of data collection
3.2 population and sample size
3.3 sample technique
3.4 validity of the instrument
3.5 method of data analysis
CHAPTER FOUR
4.0 Data presentation and analysis
4.1 presentation
4.2 analysis of data
4.3 interpretation of results
CHAPTER FIVE
5.0 Summary of findings, conclusion and recommendation
5.1 Summary of findings
5.2 Conclusion
5.3 Recommendation
Reference
Appendix
Questionnaire