Title:
EVALUATING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ETHICS AND VALUES AS A RESPONSE TO THE DIFFICULTIES FACED IN DEVELOPING A NEW NIGERIA

Authors:
Olowookere Clement Adebayo, Apanisile Anthony Smart and Omiata Temitope Raphael

Abstract:
In discussions of development, community development is an important phenomenon. It entails raising people's standard of living through teamwork and in consideration of development objectives. Researchers and some prevailing conditions have noticed that the application of community development's basic ideals and principles has not been able to impact or accomplish development goals in developing nations. Utilizing secondary data, a range of relevant literature was examined in order to pinpoint the obstacles that community development ideals and principles face as they work to create a new Nigeria and to determine the causes of those obstacles. In order to accomplish this goal, this study traces the history of community development and examines the underlying values and principles of community development as well as, the growth of community development, and its impact on modern approaches to community development practice are traced in this study, which also analyzes and explores the underlying ideals and principles of community development. The political, security, corruption, ineffective monitoring and execution, and assessment of development initiatives are among the difficulties that have been cited. The article came to the conclusion that the variables impacting the influence of values and principles of community development will be overcome when traditional and cultural values of communities are recognized in the development planning and appropriate capacity building programs are localized.

Keywords:
Community, Community development, Core values of community development. Development, Ethics

DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37500/IJESSR.2024.7409

Date of Publication: 14-08-2024