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The Department of Community Development or more commonly synonymous with the general public as KEMAS is an extension of the Adult Education Division, which was established in 1961, through the cabinet paper No. 385/25/60 with a major focus on the “Loss Abolition” program.
By 1977, this illiterate eradication movement was enhanced by the introduction of the UNESCO concept of ‘Functional Literacy’ as an effort to make the poverty eradication movement one of the strategies for developing rural communities.
Following the launch of the “New Economic Policy” (1970), this section has been renamed the “Community Development Division” (KEMAS) with a focus on community development efforts in the true sense