a. Modernization and economic growth approach:

• Economic growth will consequently support social development
• Poor people will benefit through high economic growth rate

b. Basic need approach:

• Basic consumption, services, participation for productive employment.

c. Community development approach:

• Mobilization of labor in support of government to build infrastructure.
• Utilization of local, human and natural resources.
• Training and assignment of community workers as change agent.

d. People participation approach:

• Strengthening the individual capacity to mobilize and help themselves
• Identification of felt needs and mobilization of local resources

e. Self-reliance approach:

• Trusting one owns power, learning by doing, and use ones own efforts.

f. Self -help development approach.

• Voluntary membership, participator planning, resource mobilization, self-management, linkage building, self-evaluation.

g. NGO approach:

• Voluntary organization, Public service contractor, people organization.

h. Decentralization of power approach:

• Devolution of power and initiatives from central to local in planning, management, resource generation, and allocation of resources.

i. Human dev. Approach:

• Human security, sustainable human development.