Top down and bottom up development.

Projects that inculde these aspects:

• Decision making lies with the local community.
• Small scale and apprioprate to local needs.
• Culturally acceptable. 

Advantages:

• Meets the needs of the local people.
• Helps solve the problems of the local community.
• Local people have a say in what happens.
• Improves quality of life.
• Cheap.
• Quick.
• More sustainable.

Disadvantages:

• Only benefits the locals not the country as a whole.
• Only small scale.
• Can only help to a certain point.
• Dependent on NGOs.
• Creates honey potting (people move to the area.)

Top down projects include:

• Decision making from the government or large multilateral organisations.
• Local community have little say.
• Large scale projects.
• Expensive projects.
• Using western technology.

Advantages:

• Large scale = large benefits.
• Provides jobs (construction and maintainance.)
• Attracts people to the area.
• Helps the whole country.
• Infrastructure projects.
• Trade links and international relations improve.

Disadvantages:

• Waste of money and resources.
• Expensive.
• Have to pay back loans from other countries. (Loan dependency.)
• Locals have no say.
• Can reduce quality of life in the surrounding area in certain cases.
• May not help everyone.
• Takes a long time to complete.
• Increases pollution.
• Can destroy culture of an area.