The State of Rural Community Development in Rural Areas of Katsina State, Northern Nigeria.

Abstract

Traditionally, rural areas have had their own social, economic, and cultural circumstances distinct from those of their urban counterparts.  Rural community development is increasingly gaining acceptance as an important instrument for mobilising resources and organising the rural populace to have cogent interests in providing for their wellbeing. The aim and objective of the research study was to assess the contributions of Rural Community Development in the rural areas of Katsina State Northern Nigeria.  The methodology employed by the research is triangulation method in which quantitative and qualitative instruments were used.  Data collected was mainly based on primary and secondary sources. Some of the findings of the research study indicate that rural community development recorded an overall average mean of (2.8494) which is high on Likert scaling.  The constructs measured under rural community development were community leadership, community participation and mobilization and were found to be high.  This was a result of various factors such as democracy at the community level, other factors include, traditional institutions in the area are well committed to the issue of rural community development; colonial experienced by the rural populace, awareness among the rural populace on the needs of the rural community development as a basis for their development.  Some of the recommendations of the research includes efforts should be made to sustained the tempo in which rural community development would be used in achieving development at grassroots’ level, more awareness should be made to rural populace to continue providing for themselves.

Keywords:  Rural Areas, Rural community Development.