Agencies that were able to play significant roles on a local level are being swallowed up in regional agencies and the local focus is being lost. Energies are being re-directed into the more regional issues and local issues are receiving less attention. All the community has responsibility for overcoming the challenges. Every means needs to be taken advantage of to educate individuals on how to participate in community development processes. Community based organizations should be vested with the responsibility and the means.
Local individuals can do things better than people from the outside.
They need to take control of their own destinies and should be given the support and the resources to do so. Organizational structures need to become vertically integrated. All levels of government need to cooperate. The local organizations need to become more organized and participate in cooperative approaches. This is the role of zonal boards and they are the vehicle that community development should be vested with.