Community Development as the Bastion of Sustainable Development in Nigeria

The oft quoted slogan of sustainable development, it has been argued; cannot become achievable without a conscientious effort at ensuring an integrated and practical approach towards that goal from the grass root level. The grass roots is the countryside where it has been argued that most of those who eagerly respond to activities and schemes for primary industrialization are found; and from where the workforce and resources for heavy industries and operations come from. The locality participation model of the community development theory expounds the methods and processes of articulating the consciousness of the need for development among the citizenry at the community level, so that when this is achieved, the collectivity of such efforts in developmental programme by the various communities would form a solid foundation for all round national development. This paper submits that this approach if used to mobilise the people will achieve sustainable development