community based organization

INTRODUCTION community based organization are basically groups which are not profit oriented and conducts most of its duties if not all at the local level to ensure that lives of community members in which it is located or they are working is improved. Community based organisations deal with are wide range of fields in their service delivery to the residents of a given community. Some of the fields that they majorly focus on are: education, rights of the disabled, health, and gender issues just to mention but a few. Mostly the community in which the organization is situated always enjoy the advantage of the organization’s services.
Thestructure of the management of suchorganization should constitute people or individuals who are closely identified by the community members. This is because they have same experience in terms of problems experienced by the community and they also have the first hand needs of their people. Having people from the community also enables ease of identification of major initiatives to be carried out in the community to ensure improvement in the state of affairs. another reason why having individuals who are members of the community where the organization is situated is, it promotes willingness and desire to better the live of one`s people as well as helping them. This mainly due to services one will be delivering will be doing it to his own people hence he or she will be playing an integral part in the changing of his communities face. a lot of responsibilities are place on the organization by the government since they are very helpful in developing, collection of concerns , planning and delivering solution to most of the communities problems. By this way they act as gatekeepers as well as storehouse of valuable information for the government on matter pertaining to development and improving of living standards at the community level.
Community based organisations are integral organisations in the implementations of most