Nigeria’s Rural Economic Development Strategy: Community Driven Development Approach

Abstract

Starting with an assumption of what appears to be true - that the so-called economic crisis in the rural areas of Nigeria is now pretty well established as a fact of our age. The problems, poor sanitation, disease and hunger may still be ignored or scoffed at, but they cannot be denied. The interest and aspiration of the communities till today remain largely unfulfilled in spite of the millions spent by the Federal and State Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The concept of Community Driven Development (CDD) appears significant to be defined as having dwelt with the word Community Development connotes the gradual growth, which becomes more advanced and stronger when we plan, which is something that you intend to do or achieve over a particular period of time while Drives- to operate a vehicles so that it goes in a particular direction desired by the concerned group of individuals within the society. Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) is based on the assumption that community members are the best “experts” about their own health and social situations.