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A Study on Community Development Theory and Practices

   

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Running head: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT THEORY AND PRACTICESCommunity development theory and practicesName of the studentName of the universityAuthor Note:

2COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT THEORY AND PRACTICESIntroductionThe following essay is prepared to basically get a clear idea of the communitydevelopment theory and practices. The essay has aimed to verify the role of the NGO’s and theINGO’s regarding the different aid programs that they undertake to facilitate the community as awhole. The NGO’s are the Nongovernmental organizations which are basically involved indifferent welfare activities that are aimed at benefiting the lower strata of the society. Theactivities may involve providing relief during times of distress, undertaking healthcare programslike polio vaccination, TB vaccination or engaging in relief operations and last but not the leastin any sense organizing and mobilizing funds for the development of the community. TheNGO’s have a clear role in coordination, collaboration and bridging the communication gapbetween the different individuals of the community (Bennett 2014).Some of the main tasks of NGO’s, INGO’s and donors are;A.Completition of the Charity-Mission- The non governmental bodies as mentioned helpsa targeted sector of economy which includes healthcare, education, assisting different selfhelp groups and many others as such. Large NGOs can also provide different loans whichcan be beneficial for the growth of the company.B.Communication and Relationship- Development of the communities help to increasecommunication and relationship between the different people of the community.Communication helps to understand the connection to make fundraising or donation inthe targeted areas. The NGOs also act as a mediator to solve any rural problems.C.Voice to the government- The institutions provides a database of the problems of thevillagers and the population of the other rural areas to the government in details. This

3COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT THEORY AND PRACTICEShelps in the proper communication between the government and the NGOs and helps toallocate and mobilize the development funds easily (Islam 2017).D.Initiate New Technology- The following institutions can use the latest technologies toimprove the conditions of the4 people who are in real need. The organizations can alsoappoint experts in their ranks who may be engaged in the training and development of thedifferent natives. Characteristics of NGO Intervention The aid should be managed in a proper and efficient way to better achieve the greaterdevelopment impact. In the year 2000 the leaders of the world made a series of historiccommitments at the UN Millennium Summit (Bennett 2014). The leaders took the pledge ofassisting each other and working together in a fixed structure to manage the dehumanizingconditions that people face in underdeveloped regions of the world. The member nations agreedto make the following program a reality by the year 2015 and the primary task of thisdevelopmental process was assigned to the developing countries while on the other hand thedonor countries or the developed countries with a negligible amount of poverty and otherproblems were assigned to play a supportive role to develop the condition of the formercountries. The main aim of such a project was to increase the aid effectiveness (Amin 2014). Within the different sectors that an NGO it is quite possible to determine the differentNGO activities. The main aim of the NGOs has been to fill the gaps that has been taking on theactivities of the provisions in the community where government intervention has been very lessor the provisions which does not seems to be a priority for the government. The organizationsface a lot of difficulties in working in rural areas either because of the failure to mobilize the

4COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT THEORY AND PRACTICESfunds properly or the extreme conditions that exist in these areas. The main aim of the NGOs isto make sure that these areas receive a basic transformation to change the extreme condition ofthe lives of the population residing in these areas.There are some common problems that the NGOs faces while they try to ensuresustainability, this happens mainly because NGO actions are regional and in most of the casesare implemented on a local basis. Many such projects have earlier failed the test of times asbecause there has been absence of capacity development.NGOs and Changing Aid AgendaThe supply side of the international aid community is pre dominated by a selected groupof players globally. Some of them are the aids provided by the government of the developedcountries, World Bank and the United Nations (Molenaers et al. 2015). The aid allocationdecisions include different types of self interested motivations like opening up of internationalmarkets. The aid decisions by the government are clearly based on public opinions. There arepolitical dimensions to the implementation of aid through large scale bilateral and multilateralbureaucracies. The rise of the NGOs has thus helped to address problems in the sector related tothe traditional aid supply. In the beginning the individuals or some foundations directly donatesthe NGOs and address their preferences for specific aid projects like in times of distress or likedonating money for a social cause (Seeberg et al. 2017). The NGOs must be accountable to thepopulations who are actively contributed resources and the people for whom the NGOs work for.The smaller organizational structure of the NGO’s involves smaller costs of bureaucracy andincreases the need of greater efficiency to use the funds that have been donated in a much betterway.

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