Today, making use of the participation and abilities of local people, particularly the rural
populations, to achieve rural development is seen as one of the effective strategies
towards sustainable and comprehensive development of rural areas. One of the most
important tools to achieve this goal is to establish NGOs based on the needs and abilities
of different groups living in the villages, they can be of great help in resolving the diverse
and fundamental issues of local people and performing rural development plans. These
organizations, in economic and social fields are disengaged from complex bureaucracy
of public sector and the profit-seeking of private sector and make it possible for them to
be more successful than the private and public sectors in fighting poverty and hunger,
environmental protection, forestry, raising public awareness, welfare, health of the
society and families, taking care of women and children, reducing social damages, etc.
In the contemporary development processes, villages are facing widespread threats;
therefore, to ensure survival and continuity of rural life requires solutions and innovative
methods. For this purpose, managers must take on roles that are peripheral to such
changing conditions.