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PAD 114 Introduction to Community Development

ND1 level27 topics

PAD 114 covers 27 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Meaning of community and community development
  2. Scope of community development
  3. Basic community development concepts and approaches
  4. Community development and national development
  5. UNESCO and community development
  6. Principles and philosophies of community development
  7. Role of government and limitations in community development
  8. Community development workers: roles, skills and qualities
  9. Community development strategies in Nigeria
  10. Government, age-grade and NYSC roles in community development
  11. Social welfare schemes and integrated approach
  12. Evaluation, management and appraisal of community development projects
  13. Pension and gratuity in the public service
  14. Old and contributory pension schemes
  15. Conditions for payment of pension
  16. Contract appointment and contract gratuity
  17. Pension Reform Act 2004
  18. Roles of Pension Fund Administrators
  19. Disciplinary procedures in the public service
  20. Dismissal, termination, suspension and retirement
  21. Queries, warnings and APERs
  22. Problems affecting service delivery
  23. Political instability and corruption in public service
  24. Godfatherism, favoritism and ethnicism
  25. Bureaucracy, red tapism and poor communication
  26. Labour unions in the civil service
  27. Functions and importance of labour unions

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Meaning of community and community development

The core ideas to master are: (1) the definition of a community as a group of people sharing common characteristics, interests or a common space; (2) the definition of community development as a participatory process that empowers communities to improve their quality of life; and (3) the key principles that link the two – participation, empowerment, sustainability and inclusiveness.

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