Influenced by the significant contribution of rural areas in development and due to the failure of these communities to achieve the desired performance in the development of traditional and small handicrafts that enable the transfer of simple technologies in the heart of the development process, the necessity of change and transformation and having a conscious and wise plan for development, in accordance with the differences in different geographical areas, technological levels and market size, is of unparalleled importance; so that paying attention to this is considered one of the main pillars of managing rural communities in the post-development era. For this purpose, the present article aims to "investigate how to manage the development of rural communities based on the contingency craft model" in the rural areas of Kermanshah city to examine this issue. This research is descriptive-analytical and of an applied type. The statistical population of the study was 34 producers of local products that had a special history (their main activities were related to handicrafts and carpet weaving) in the city and were managed as a family (according to the craft model), selected from among 44 entrepreneurial villages in Kermanshah city by the whole-number method. Field methods and a questionnaire were used to collect data, the reliability of which was calculated as 0.72 using Cronbach's alpha test for the rural community development variable, which indicated the suitability of the research tool. Simple technology transfer theory was used to organize and extract variables in the conceptual model, and statistical methods (correlation, regression, and path analysis) were used to analyze the data to explain the causal effects of rural community development management on technology levels and market size. The results showed that there is a strong correlation between the variables (process, performance, culture, environmental requirements, and structure) at the one percent error level and 99 percent confidence level. These variables explain a total of 98 percent of the changes in the rural community development variable. Among them, the culture and process variables (existence of civil institutions) had the greatest causal effects on the development of rural communities based on traditional activities and handicrafts, respectively.