A social worker plays a crucial role in community development by helping communities identify their needs, mobilize available resources, strengthen local institutions, and promote sustainable social and economic progress. Community development aims to improve the quality of life of people through active participation, collective action, and empowerment. The social worker acts as a catalyst, facilitator, educator, advocate, planner, coordinator, and evaluator to ensure that development initiatives are inclusive and responsive to the needs of the community. One of the primary roles of a social worker is to study the community and assess its needs, strengths, and problems. Through surveys, interviews, observation, and participatory methods, the social worker collects information about issues such as poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, health, sanitation, gender inequality, and social exclusion. This assessment forms the basis for planning appropriate community development programmes. The social worker motivates and mobilizes community members to participate actively in development activities. Instead of imposing solutions, the social worker encourages people to recognize their own problems and work together to solve them. Community participation creates a sense of ownership, responsibility, and commitment, making development programmes more effective and