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This study tried to assess the extent to which participatory communication can enhance community development in Urugbam community. The study adopted John Greene's Action Assembly Theory developed in 1984. Action Assembly Theory attempts to explain how people formulate meanings and produce verbal and nonverbal behaviours that bear some relationship to those meanings by describing how the mind carries out these activities. The researcher applied descriptive research methodology through the use of focus group discussion. The total population of the Urugbam community including men and women is 3010, but a purposive sampling technique was applied to select 7 participants that form the focus group discussion from five compounds with a total of thirty-five (35) participants. A qualitative method of data analysis was applied to descriptively present data in words. Findings indicate that government initiated borehole water project in Urugbam community has been abandoned because the project was reportedly initiated without the involvement of the community members or stakeholders. The research recommendas that government and educational boards should endeavour to involve community stakeholders in an interaction before implementing projects so that such projects can be sustainable and be useful to the entire community members. This research also recommends that the case of community development should be addressed thoroughly by individuals, governmental and non-governmental organizations through any means necessary especially through interaction with stakeholders.

Community development is both a collective effort and an achievement driven by individual facilitators with the aim of lifting a community out of povertyThe sixth edition of Community Development: Breaking the cycle of poverty continues to be a definitive guide for community development workers, students and practitioners alike. The book contextualises poverty and explains the process of community development. It pays attention to the development environment and explains concepts such as asset-based community development and the social enterprise sector. In addition to context and process, the book details the skills required by a community development worker to function in the field. It also explains how to empower the development worker to train others in order to build capacity in the community and work towards breaking the cycle of poverty.

Field experiment shows that modern farmers (high adopters) are influenced more than traditionals by nonlocal than local sources, particularly when they Uve in a relatively modern community.

The study aims to determine how to address communication in increasing community participation and to determine the role of communication in development. Development is one of the correct alternatives in overcoming various problems that arise in the community. Communication has a central role in increasing community participation to contribute to the planning and development. Communication psychologically is an interaction to convey a more easily understood by thinking. The methods used in this study use a library research method or approach. This method is intended to examine more deeply the role of communication in the development of community empowerment. The result of communication about development is a strategy that emphasizes the need for development socialization with development actors in the form of spreading messages by a person or group to the public to change their attitudes, opinions, and behaviors to improve external progress and internal satisfaction to achieve development goals whose benefits can be felt by all equally. From this, it can conclude that communication for development adheres to the principles of development modernization by positioning the government no higher than those who only form a model of communication from top to bottom in society.

This volume examines the setting, operations, and effects of community telecentres. It describes the telecentre experiences of a variety of local and often rural communities, exploring the management structures and mechanisms that have been established to support these telecentres. The book provides profiles of telecentre usage and discusses the potential and challenges of setting up and maintaining community telecentres in the context of poor information infrastructure and limited human capacity.

This lively book argues that in the development process, communication is everything. The authors, world experts in this field as teachers, practitioners and theorists, argue that Communication for Development is a creative and innovative way of thinking that can permeate the overall approach to any development initiative. They illustrate their argument with vivid case studies and tools for the reader

This guide is intended for people working in research and development. It introduces participatory development communication concepts, discusses the effective two-way communication approaches, and presents a methodology to plan, develop, and evaluate communication strategies.