Indicators of community development.

and
THE KEY ACTORS OF COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT
 Community development is a result of various components,

comprising changes in thinking, adjustments in traditional

customs and norms, physical infrastructure. These indicators can

give you an idea about the levels of progress and improvement in a

community:
• Improvement inside the social services like schooling, health,

housing, nutrition, safe drinking water, easy surroundings

and so forth.

• Development in profits that makes feasible for community

members to cope with their felt needs.

• Reduction in poverty in targeted groups.

• Broaden updated technology at community stages to meet

their necessities with extra prepared and clean methods.

• Reduce maternally and infant mortality quotes in

communities

• Sustainable use of environment

With these above-mentioned signs, it confirms that community

development is a collective effort to enhance the community, however, we

cannot deny outside forces helps and efforts government, NGOs, donors,

and different communities as well. It is an exquisite factor that community

development is constantly tried to carry socio-economic alternate within the

community
• The key Actors of Community Development

• Several actors play different roles to perform a community development

program in a community, however there are a few key community

development actors who perform tremendous functions to complete the

program successfully.

• Those who are involved in community development programs have their

own strengths and abilities to play even though they may have some

limitations in their efforts to improve community development.

• Consequently, the key actors who participated the process of community

development may be recognized as observe:

 Local Governments
(i) The Union Council Governments
• Essentially, it is Union Council Governments' responsibility to implement
community development programs in their communities.
• They have to up-to-dated processes to mobilize
• community resources e.g. human and natural sources to bring development in
several fields like health, training, housing, recreation.
• Union Council Governments have a particular repute and possess very close
relations with community members.
• The representatives of Union Council Governments from the same groups,
and that they know their troubles and priorities thoroughly.
• It is less difficult for them to plan strategies more successfully for the
development of the communities.
 (ii) District and Tehsil Local Governments
• District and Tehsil Governments are a top system of local government.
They have legal and more powers to implement community development
programs of their communities to provide social services like health,
education, water, roads, employments and giving them with working tools.
• But, they must enhance their abilities and competencies to prepare
acceptable plans in step with peoples' wishes and supervise the
development interventions.
• Therefore, they have to have satisfactory and skillful people who can
implement community development programs.
• So that you can fulfill these desires, they should use their available
resources of earnings, a good great income collective system and proper
control of the same.
• District and Tehsil local governments should implement these plans which
have been recommended by the members of communities and their
participation must be given top priority because without local members'
participation it is not possible to bring change.
• Governments should prepare community development experts by giving
them professionally and need base training to implement the projects more
systematic and organized ways
 Provincial and Federal Governments
• The crucial function of provincial and federal governments in present about
community development is to put together and oversee implementation and broaden a
good atmosphere for the groups to execute numerous social, financial and so forth
guidelines and lead them to able to giving facilities.
• The provincial and federal governments have authorities to regulate the interventions.
In addition, the provincial and federal governments can define their relationships with
local governments, so there cannot be any overlapping of responsibilities.
• In order to make the community development programs more sustainable, the
provincial and federal governments must look into ways of correcting any weak points
and give encouragements to the concerned people to build their confidence to continue
their efforts for betterment.
• The both governments need to be more accountable and transparent to the members
and give their full potentials to control corruption in community development
programs.
• Provincial and federal governments must have obvious functions regarding proper use
of resources and set up well-develop tools, equipment and finances in order to enable
union council and district and Tehsil governments to carry out their duties successfully
to complete community development programs.