Communities NOT State or NGOs the answer to meaningful development and sustainable peace

Future Generations Afghanistan Country Director, Aziz Hakimi, writes an occasional paper on the strength of involving communities to determine their own needs and priorities. The paper discusses the use of the SEED-SCALE approach to implement community development.  SEED-SCALE stands for Self-evaluation for effective decision making and systems for communities to adapt, learn, and expand. This process is an alternative process towards community change in contrast to the traditional method, because SEED-SCALE focuses on the "strengths" of communities instead of their weaknesses.