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Service Opare, Strengthening community-based organizations for the challenges of rural development, Community Development Journal, Volume 42, Issue 2, April 2007, Pages 251–264, https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsl002
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Abstract
Though community-based organizations (CBOs) are small, informal organizations, indications are that they provide various services towards the development of rural communities and can be used as channels to route development information and other resources required to improve living conditions in rural communities. CBOs are, however, constrained from providing a more diverse range of services to their communities due to certain basic weaknesses. Leadership development, networking with both local and external organizations and registration with an official public agency are identified and discussed as sustainable strategies to strengthen CBOs, improve upon their service delivery standards and place them in a position to tap available opportunities to develop the communities they are located in.