What are institutions in community development
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By "community" institutions we mean the rules that govern intangible institutions like kinship, marriage, inheritance and sharing of oxen at community level and organizations that operate at community level and are controlled by their members. Development workers tend to pay most attention to relatively formal, visible institutions, such as development agencies or various forms of associations and organisations that they find within communities. This is because they are relatively easy to identify, and usually have fairly clear stated objectives. But institutions often overlap - informal, unstructured social or socio-cultural institutions, such as caste, gender or informal "rules of the game", may exist throughout society and inside formal, structured institutions. Such "nested" institutions may undermine the formal objectives and effectiveness at meeting those objectives.☺