Community Self-Help Development as a Strategy for Rural Development: An Appraisal of the Experience in Anambra State, Nigeria

Most of the strategies which have been commonly employed in dcaling with the
problems of rural development in Nigeria have usually been mainly directed towards particular sector objectives. These have among ~tlzersin cluded the following: agricultural development pro$rammes (stich as Agricultural Inputs and Extension Schemes, River Basin Development Schemes, and Integrated Agricultural/Rural Development Projects), industrial development programmes, market developiilent programmes, and a host of others. These strategies have not only bcen largely narrow in context and scope, but have also been planned and executed in isolation fmin one another