Community Engagement (CE) is critical for commencement and sustainability of every social intervention irrespective of the thematic area because that is the only bedrock that brings collaboration and cocreation. thereby enhancing situating implementation within context and community ownership. Among some of the best practices are: 1. Contextualization - CE helps to avoid one-size-fit for all purposes. 2. Cocreation - proper CE with leaders help to create a sense of ownership and belongingness. 3. Sustainability- after the demise of every intervention, the desire of every development practitioner is to harness and sustain the gains made for a long period of time. CE brings this to bear. 4.Effective communication and trust balding 5. Regards for community values and assurance of safe space 6. Feedbacks and share learnings In my view as a development practitioner, I have tried to bring to bare the above named points in my work which has yielded great results.