Value and guiding principle of community development

1. Activities undertaken must corresponds to the basic needs of community.
2. Greater reliance on participation of women and youth in community projects stimulates development programs establish them in wide and secure long-range expansion.
3. Local improvement may be achieved through un related efforts in each substantive field, however full and balanced development required connected action and establishment of multipurpose programs
4. The identification, encouragement and training of local leadership should be basic objectives of any community program
5. Changed attitudes are important as the material achievement of community projects during the initial stage of development
6. Community development aims at increased and better participation of the people community affairs revitalization of existing forms of local government and transition towards effective local administration where it is not functioning
7. To be fully effective, self-help projects of communities requires both intensive and extensive assistance by the government
8. The resource of voluntary NGO should be fully utilized in community development program at local national and international level
9. Adoption of consistent policies, specific administrative arrangement, recruitment and training of personnel research, experimentation and evaluation
10. Economic and social progress at the local level necessitate parallel development on a wider national scale.