Communities need a holistic approach to address the problems that affect the people at the
grass root. The planning of the direct beneficiaries involves decentralization in order to
allow the lower power centers to widely take part in the development of society. Concerns of
the grass root people form the need for decentralization and local governance. Peoples
involvement in the planning on the village level and all local government units makes the
identification and solving of the problem easier. High participatory levels of all the people
especially the marginalized encourages innovation to source for the appropriate solutions to
the common problems that face society. It therefore calls a decentralized system that caters
for the voters preferences while providing for their services. The peoples concerns call for
local planning and the transfer of power to the public so that services are brought nearer to
the people. This study will cover the aspects of local government and decentralization such as
good governance democratization civil society deconcentration devolution and delegation
and its relation to the development of societies.
