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Community Development Approach

The document outlines a community development approach focused on empowering local individuals and groups to strengthen their communities through improved knowledge, skills, and resources. It emphasizes participatory methods, collective action, and addressing specific needs while fostering awareness and sustainable development. Challenges such as illiteracy, customs, dependency, and apathy are also highlighted as barriers to effective community development.

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Community Development Approach

The document outlines a community development approach focused on empowering local individuals and groups to strengthen their communities through improved knowledge, skills, and resources. It emphasizes participatory methods, collective action, and addressing specific needs while fostering awareness and sustainable development. Challenges such as illiteracy, customs, dependency, and apathy are also highlighted as barriers to effective community development.

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Community

Development
Approach
Prepared by Mrs. LV Mhango
• 1. A professional practice of working and
• learning with local people – individuals and groups – to strengthen
their communities by improving people’s:
- Knowledge and consciousness
-Skills and competence
-Attitudes and confidence
-Organizational ability
- Resources
• 2. A participatory and people empowering development model,
aiming at:
- Increasing people’s capacity to influence the conditions which affect
their lives
- Supporting people – young and old – to
- play an active part in civic life
- Providing learning opportunities in
- community initiatives to meet the needs of children, youth and adults
3. A road to:
• Description and understanding of the local situation
• Needs assessment and problem definition resource mapping
• Culture of communication, cooperation and
creativity
• Common understanding of issues
• Community generation
• Establishment of networks and partnerships
• Community action
Concept & Theories

• 1. Community Development addresses both concrete (physical) and


abstract (nonviable) human needs.
• • school establishment – improve education
• • Rural road - reduce transport cost and time
• • Clean water supply improve health
• 2. Community Development is a learning process
• • LEARNING BY DOING
• • PARTICIPATION- do, think, seek, discuss, decide, apply (4 principles:
dialogue, clarity, agreement, respect-DCAR),
• • taking the initiative (reluctant to take initiative)
• • EVALUATION by the people
• 3. Community Development is collective action
• • a group of people share mutual interest, sentiment, concern, act together.
• • work as a team
4. Community Development is need oriented
• Addresses specific and concrete needs
• Bottom-up approach
5. Community Development is objective oriented
• Objectives address the specific need
• Not just for a BETTER LIFE (GOAL) norm
but must be in detail objectives
• Take initiative in setting objectives
• 6. Community Development is action at the local level
• • Not method to be applied by the experts
• • Ordinary people to play a leading part with all other actors
• • Outsider actors play roles as facilitators
7. Community Development leads to community building
• organization
• institutions
• linkages
• leadership
• skills
• life improvement
• 8. Community Development creates awareness:
• • awareness of own needs vs community needs
• • awareness of environment surrounding
• • awareness of common objectives
9. Community Development leads to further development (sustainable
development)
• carrying capacity
• protect environment
• timeframe: 25-50 years
Issues and Challenges

• • Illiteracy
• • Customs and traditions
• • Dependency
• • Apathy (being not interested, ignorance)

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