Community based association and community development has its own peculiar problems normally associated with it. Much of the performance of these community based association in community development of their areas cannot over emphases. So, this study is aimed at ascertaining the extent of which community based association could be energized for community development with particular reference to agulu in anaocha local government area in anambra state.the major thrust of the study is to appraise the performance or activities of community based association with reference to the contribution they have made to community development and also how activities effect the live of the people in terms of community development area.that is why we have given this sub-heading “the role of association in the community development” a case study of agulu in  anaocha local government area in anambra state. There is a general belief that rural development should be left to the government alone but this project tends to highlight the degree of contribution community associations can make in the development of local community especially anaocha. The purpose of this study is to investigate the performance of community association at its community development programme with particular reference to  agulu in anaocha local government area in anambra state.in a bid to achieve the above objective, this research work be instructured into five chapters . Chapter one of this project is primary concerned with the introducing part of this, under this chapter, we will also look at the statement of problems. Since colonial era, attempt has been to develop the areas. Why people should make efforts is developing their community we also look at other basic problems in project writing like significance of the study purpose of the, scope of study and concept definitions.chapter two of this work will look at literature review. Under this heading, we will look at different theories of this development as propounded by authors and scholars and their relevance to rural development in nigeria. Chapter three deals with the review of the research design and methodology. In those chapter, various sources of data, questionnaires design of determined and method of investigation discussed.chapter four of this work will look critically at the impact of community association in agulu in  anaocha local government area in anmbra state. Also in this chapter, we will look at our data presentation and analysis. Finally we will have a closer look at our data analysis and test of hypothesis. Chapter five will be the concluding part of this summary of our findings. The recommendation will tend to sake conclusion. And finally that references.

TABLE OF CONTENT
TITLE PAGE
DEDICATION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF TABLES
ABSTRACT

CHAPTER ONE
    INTRODUCTION
1.1 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
1.2 PURPOSE OF STUDY
1.3 SIGNIFICANT OF THE STUDY
1.4 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
1.5 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1.6 DEFINITION OF TERMS

CHAPTER TWO
    LITERATURE REVIEW
.1    SUMMARY OF LITERATURE REVIEW

CHAPTER THREE
3.0 METHODOLOGY
3.1 BRIEF OUTLINE OF THE STUDY
3.2 DESIGN OF THE STUDY
3.3 AREA OF THE STUDY
3.4 POPULATION OF THE STUDY
3.5 SAMPLE OF THE STUDY
3.6 INSTRUMENT FOR DATA COLLECTION.
3.7 VALIDATION OF THE INSTRUMENT
3.8 DISTRIBUTION AND RETRIEVAL OF THE INSTRUMENT 3.9 METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS

CHAPTER FOUR
4.0 DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS
4.1 FINDINGS

CHAPTER FIVE
5.0 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
5.1 RECOMMENDATION
5.2 CONCLUSION
5.3 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
5.4 SUGGESTION FOR FURTHER STUDY
5.5 REFERENCES
5.6 APPENDIX
5.7 QUESTIONNAIRES