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Community development
The United Nations defines community development as "a process where community members
come together to take collective action and generate solutions to common problems."[1] It is a broad
concept, applied to the practices of civic leaders, activists, involved citizens, and professionals to
improve various aspects of communities, typically aiming to build stronger and more resilient local
communities.

Community development is also understood as a professional discipline, and is defined by the

International Association for Community Development as "a practice-based profession and an
academic discipline that promotes participative democracy, sustainable development, rights,
economic opportunity, equality and social justice, through the organisation, education and
empowerment of people within their communities, whether these be of locality, identity or interest, in
urban and rural settings".[2]

Community development seeks to empower individuals and groups of people with the skills they need
to effect change within their communities. These skills are often created through the formation of
social groups working for a common agenda. Community developers must understand both how to
work with individuals and how to affect communities' positions within the context of larger social
institutions.

Community development as a term has taken off widely in anglophone countries, i.e. the United
States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, as well as other countries in the
Commonwealth of Nations. It is also used in some countries in Eastern Europe with active community
development associations in Hungary and Romania. The Community Development Journal,
published by Oxford University Press, since 1966 has aimed to be the major forum for research and
dissemination of international community development theory and practice.[3]

Community development approaches are recognised internationally. These methods and approaches
have been acknowledged as significant for local social, economic, cultural, environmental and political
development by such organisations as the UN, WHO, OECD, World Bank, Council of Europe and EU.
There are a number of institutions of higher education offer community development as an area of
study and research such as the University of Toronto, Leiden University, SOAS University of London,
and the Balsillie School of International Affairs, among others.

Contents
Definitions
Different approaches
History
In the global North
United States
United Kingdom
Canada
Australia
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In the "Global South"

India
Vietnam
See also
References
Further reading
External links

Definitions
There are complementary definitions of community development.

The United Nations defines community development broadly as "a process where community
members come together to take collective action and generate solutions to common problems."[1] and
the International Association for Community Development defines it as both a practice based
profession and an academic discipline. Following the adoption of the IACD definition in 2016, the
association has gone on to produce International Standards for Community Development Practice.
The values and ethos that should underpin practice can be expressed as: Commitment to rights,
solidarity, democracy, equality, environmental and social justice. The purpose of community
development is understood by IACD as being to work with communities to achieve participative
democracy, sustainable development, rights, economic opportunity, equality and social justice. This
practice is carried out by people in different roles and contexts, including people explicitly called
professional community workers (and people taking on essentially the same role but with a different
job title), together with professionals in other occupations ranging from social work, adult education,
youth work, health disciplines, environmental education, local economic development, to urban
planning, regeneration, architecture and more who seek to apply community development values and
adopt community development methods. Community development practice also encompasses a range
of occupational settings and levels from development roles working with communities, through to
managerial and strategic community planning roles.

The Community Development Challenge report, which was produced by a working party comprising
leading UK organizations in the field including the (now defunct) Community Development
Foundation, the (now defunct) Community Development Exchange and the (now defunct) Federation
for Community Development Learning defines community development as:

A set of values and practices which plays a special role in overcoming poverty and
disadvantage, knitting society together at the grass roots and deepening democracy. There
is a community development profession, defined by national occupational standards and a
body of theory and experience going back the best part of a century. There are active
citizens who use community development techniques on a voluntary basis, and there are
also other professions and agencies which use a community development approach or
some aspects of it.[4]

Community Development Exchange defines community development as:

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both an occupation (such as a community development worker in a local authority) and a

way of working with communities. Its key purpose is to build communities based on
justice, equality and mutual respect.

Community development involves changing the relationships between ordinary people

and people in positions of power, so that everyone can take part in the issues that affect
their lives. It starts from the principle that within any community there is a wealth of
knowledge and experience which, if used in creative ways, can be channeled into collective
action to achieve the communities' desired goals.

Community development practitioners work alongside people in communities to help

build relationships with key people and organizations and to identify common concerns.
They create opportunities for :the community to learn new skills and, by enabling people
to act together, community development practitioners help to foster social inclusion and
equality.[5]

Different approaches
There are numerous overlapping approaches to community development. Some focus on the
processes, some on the outcomes/ objectives. They include:

Community Engagement; focuses on relationships at the core of facilitating "understanding and

evaluation, involvement, exchange of information and opinions, about a concept, issue or project,
with the aim of building social capital and enhancing social outcomes through decision-making”
(p. 173).[6]
Women Self-help Group; focusing on the contribution of women in settlement groups.[7]
Community capacity building; focusing on helping communities obtain, strengthen, and
maintain the ability to set and achieve their own development objectives.[8]
Large Group Capacitation; an adult education and social psychology approach grounded in the
activity of the individual and the social psychology of the large group focusing on large groups of
unemployed or semi-employed participants, many of whom with Lower Levels of Literacy (LLLs).
Social capital formation; focusing on benefits derived from the cooperation between individuals
and groups.
Nonviolent direct action; when a group of people take action to reveal an existing problem,
highlight an alternative, or demonstrate a possible solution to a social issue which is not being
addressed through traditional societal institutions (governments, religious organizations or
established trade unions) to the satisfaction of the direct action participants.
Economic development, focusing on the "development" of developing countries as measured by
their economies, although it includes the processes and policies by which a nation improves the
economic, political, and social well-being of its people.
Community economic development (CED); an alternative to conventional economic
development which encourages using local resources in a way that enhances economic
outcomes while improving social conditions. For example, CED involves strategies which aim to
improve access to affordable housing, medical, and child care.[9]
A worker cooperative is a progressive CED strategy that operates as businesses both
managed and owned by their employees. They are beneficial due to their potential to create
jobs and providing a route for grassroots political action. Some challenges that the worker
cooperative faces include the mending of the cooperative’s identity as both business and as a
democratic humanitarian organization. They are limited in resources and scale.[10]
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Sustainable development; which seeks to achieve, in a balanced manner, economic

development, social development and environmental protection outcomes.[11]
Community-driven development (CDD), an economic development model which shifts
overreliance on central governments to local communities.
Asset-based community development (ABCD); is a methodology that seeks to uncover and
use the strengths within communities as a means for sustainable development.[12]
Faith-based community development; which utilizes faith-based organizations to bring about
community development outcomes.[13]
Community-based participatory research (CBPR); a partnership approach to research that
equitably involves, for example, community members, organizational representatives, and
researchers in all aspects of the research process and in which all partners contribute expertise
and share decision making and ownership, which aims to integrate this knowledge with
community development outcomes.[14][15]
Community organizing; an approach that generally assumes that social change necessarily
involves conflict and social struggle in order to generate collective power for the powerless.
Participatory planning including community-based planning (CBP); involving the entire
community in the strategic and management processes of urban planning; or, community-level
planning processes, urban or rural.[16][17]
Town-making; or machizukuri (まちづくり) refers to a Japanese concept which is "an umbrella
term generally understood as citizen participation in the planning and management of a living
environment".[18] It can include redevelopment, revitalization, and post-disaster reconstruction,
and usually emphasizes the importance of local citizen participation. In recent years, cooperation
between local communities and contents tourism (such as video games, anime, and manga) has
also become a key driver of machizukuri in some local communities, such as the tie-up between
CAPCOM's Sengoku Basara and the city of Shiroishi.[19]
Language revitalization focuses on the use of a language so that it serves the needs of a
community. This may involve the creation of books, films and other media in the language. These
actions help a small language community to preserve their language and culture.[20]
Methodologies focusing on the educational component of community development, including the
community-wide empowerment that increased educational opportunity creates.
Methodologies addressing the issues and challenges of the Digital divide, making affordable
training and access to computers and the Internet, addressing the marginalisation of local
communities that cannot connect and participate in the global Online community. In the United
States, nonprofit organizations such as Per Scholas seek to “break the cycle of poverty by
providing education, technology and economic opportunities to individuals, families and
communities” as a path to development for the communities they serve.[21]

There are a myriad of job titles for community development workers and their employers include
public authorities and voluntary or non-governmental organisations, funded by the state and by
independent grant making bodies. Since the nineteen seventies the prefix word 'community' has also
been adopted by several other occupations from the police and health workers to planners and
architects, who have been influenced by community development approaches.

History
Amongst the earliest community development approaches were those developed in Kenya and British
East Africa during the 1930s. Community development practitioners have over many years developed
a range of approaches for working within local communities and in particular with disadvantaged
people. Since the nineteen sixties and seventies through the various anti poverty programmes in both
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developed and developing countries, community development practitioners have been influenced by
structural analyses as to the causes of disadvantage and poverty i.e. inequalities in the distribution of
wealth, income, land, etc. and especially political power and the need to mobilise people power to
affect social change. Thus the influence of such educators as Paulo Freire and his focus upon this
work. Other key people who have influenced this field are Saul Alinsky (Rules for Radicals) and E.F.
Schumacher (Small Is Beautiful). There are a number of international organisations that support
community development, for example, Oxfam, UNICEF, The Hunger Project and Freedom from
Hunger, run community development programs based upon community development initiatives for
relief and prevention of malnutrition. Since 2006 the Dragon Dreaming Project Management
techniques have spread to 37 different countries and are engaged in an estimated 3,250 projects
worldwide.

In the global North

In the 19th century, the work of the Welsh early socialist thinker Robert Owen (1771–1851), sought to
create a more perfect community. At New Lanark and at later communities such as Oneida in the USA
and the New Australia Movement in Australia, groups of people came together to create utopian or
intentional communities, with mixed success.

United States

In the United States in the 1960s, the term "community development" began to complement and
generally replace the idea of urban renewal, which typically focused on physical development projects
often at the expense of working-class communities. One of the earliest proponents of the term in the
United States was social scientist William W. Biddle[22] In the late 1960s, philanthropies such as the
Ford Foundation and government officials such as Senator Robert F. Kennedy took an interest in local
nonprofit organizations. A pioneer was the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation in Brooklyn,
which attempted to apply business and management skills to the social mission of uplifting low-
income residents and their neighborhoods. Eventually such groups became known as "Community
development corporations" or CDCs. Federal laws beginning with the 1974 Housing and Community
Development Act provided a way for state and municipal governments to channel funds to CDCs and
other nonprofit organizations.

National organizations such as the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation (founded in 1978 and
now known as NeighborWorks America), the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) (founded
in 1980), and the Enterprise Foundation (founded in 1981) have built extensive networks of affiliated
local nonprofit organizations to which they help provide financing for countless physical and social
development programs in urban and rural communities. The CDCs and similar organizations have
been credited with starting the process that stabilized and revived seemingly hopeless inner city areas
such as the South Bronx in New York City.

United Kingdom

In the UK, community development has had two main traditions. The first was as an approach for
preparing for the independence of countries from the former British Empire in the 1950s and 1960s.
Domestically it first came into public prominence with the Labour Government's anti deprivation
programmes of the latter sixties and seventies. The main example of this being the CDP (Community

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Development Programme), which piloted local area based community development. This influenced a
number of largely urban local authorities, in particular in Scotland with Strathclyde Region's major
community development programme (the largest at the time in Europe).

The Gulbenkian Foundation was a key funder of commissions and reports which influenced the
development of community development in the UK from the latter sixties to the 80's. This included
recommending that there be a national institute or centre for community development, able to
support practice and to advise government and local authorities on policy. This was formally set up in
1991 as the Community Development Foundation. In 2004 the Carnegie UK Trust established a
Commission of Inquiry into the future of rural community development examining such issues as
land reform and climate change. Carnegie funded over sixty rural community development action
research projects across the UK and Ireland and national and international communities of practice to
exchange experiences. This included the International Association for Community Development.

In 1999 a UK wide organisation responsible for setting professional training standards for all
education and development practitioners working within local communities was established and
recognised by the Labour Government. This organisation was called PAULO – the National Training
Organisation for Community Learning and Development. (It was named after Paulo Freire). It was
formally recognised by David Blunkett, the Secretary of State for Education and Employment. Its first
chair was Charlie McConnell, the Chief Executive of the Scottish Community Education Council, who
had played a lead role in bringing together a range of occupational interests under a single national
training standards body, including community education, community development and development
education. The inclusion of community development was significant as it was initially uncertain as to
whether it would join the NTO for Social Care. The Community Learning and Development NTO
represented all the main employers, trades unions, professional associations and national
development agencies working in this area across the four nations of the UK.

The term 'community learning and development' was adopted to acknowledge that all of these
occupations worked primarily within local communities, and that this work encompassed not just
providing less formal learning support but also a concern for the wider holistic development of those
communities  – socio-economically, environmentally, culturally and politically. By bringing together
these occupational groups this created for the first time a single recognised employment sector of
nearly 300,000 full and part-time paid staff within the UK, approximately 10% of these staff being
full-time. The NTO continued to recognise the range of different occupations within it, for example
specialists who work primarily with young people, but all agreed that they shared a core set of
professional approaches to their work. In 2002 the NTO became part of a wider Sector Skills Council
for lifelong learning.

The UK currently hosts the only global network of practitioners and activists working towards social
justice through community development approach, the International Association for Community
Development (IACD).[23] IACD was formed in the USA in 1953, moved to Belgium in 1978 and was
restructured and relaunched in Scotland in 1999.[24]

Canada

Community development in Canada has roots in the development of co-operatives, credit unions and
caisses populaires. The Antigonish Movement which started in the 1920s in Nova Scotia, through the
work of Doctor Moses Coady and Father James Tompkins, has been particularly influential in the
subsequent expansion of community economic development work across Canada.

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Australia

Community development in Australia have often been focussed upon Aboriginal Australian
communities, and during the period of the 1980s to the early 21st century were funded through the
Community Employment Development Program, where Aboriginal people could be employed in "a
work for the dole" scheme, which gave the chance for non-government organisations to apply for a
full or part-time worker funded by the Department for Social Security. Dr Jim Ife, formerly of Curtin
University, organised a ground breaking text-book on community development

In the "Global South"

Community planning techniques drawing on the history of utopian movements became important in
the 1920s and 1930s in East Africa, where community development proposals were seen as a way of
helping local people improve their own lives with indirect assistance from colonial authorities.[25]

Mohandas K. Gandhi adopted African community development ideals as a basis of his South African
Ashram, and then introduced it as a part of the Indian Swaraj movement, aiming at establishing
economic interdependence at village level throughout India. With Indian independence, despite the
continuing work of Vinoba Bhave in encouraging grassroots land reform, India under its first Prime
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru adopted a mixed-economy approach, mixing elements of socialism and
capitalism. During the fifties and sixties, India ran a massive community development programme
with focus on rural development activities through government support. This was later expanded in
scope and was called integrated rural development scheme [IRDP]. A large number of initiatives that
can come under the community development umbrella have come up in recent years.

The main objective of community development in India remains to develop the villages and to help
the villagers help themselves to fight against poverty, illiteracy, malnutrition, etc. The beauty of
Indian model of community development lies in the homogeneity of villagers and high level of
participation.

Community development became a part of the Ujamaa Villages established in Tanzania by Julius
Nyerere, where it had some success in assisting with the delivery of education services throughout
rural areas, but has elsewhere met with mixed success. In the 1970s and 1980s, community
development became a part of "Integrated Rural Development", a strategy promoted by United
Nations Agencies and the World Bank. Central to these policies of community development were:

Adult literacy programs, drawing on the work of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire and the "Each
One Teach One" adult literacy teaching method conceived by Frank Laubach.
Youth and women's groups, following the work of the Serowe Brigades of Botswana, of Patrick
van Rensburg (https://web.archive.org/web/20091125064832/http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/H
ome.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=ERICSearchResult&_urlType=action&newSearch=true&ERI
CExtSearch_SearchType_1=au&ERICExtSearch_Operator_1=OR&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue
_1=%22Van+Rensburg+Patrick%22&searchtype=authors%7CMr).
Development of community business ventures and particularly cooperatives, in part drawn on the
examples of José María Arizmendiarrieta and the Mondragon Cooperatives of the Basque region
of Spain
Compensatory education for those missing out in the formal education system, drawing on the
work of Open Education as pioneered by Michael Young.
Dissemination of alternative technologies, based upon the work of E. F. Schumacher as
advocated in his book Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered

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Village nutrition programs and permaculture projects, based upon the work of Australians Bill
Mollison and David Holmgren.
Village water supply programs

In the 1990s, following critiques of the mixed success of "top down" government programs, and
drawing on the work of Robert Putnam, in the rediscovery of social capital, community development
internationally became concerned with social capital formation. In particular the outstanding success
of the work of Muhammad Yunus in Bangladesh with the Grameen Bank from its inception in 1976,
has led to the attempts to spread microenterprise credit schemes around the world. Yunus saw that
social problems like poverty and disease were not being solved by the market system on its own. Thus,
he established a banking system which lends to the poor with very little interest, allowing them access
to entrepreneurship.[26] This work was honoured by the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.

Another alternative to "top down" government programs is the participatory government institution.
Participatory governance institutions are organizations which aim to facilitate the participation of
citizens within larger decision making and action implementing processes in society. A case study
done on municipal councils and social housing programs in Brazil found that the presence of
participatory governance institutions supports the implementation of poverty alleviation programs by
local governments.[27]

The "human scale development" work of Right Livelihood Award-winning Chilean economist
Manfred Max Neef promotes the idea of development based upon fundamental human needs, which
are considered to be limited, universal and invariant to all human beings (being a part of our human
condition). He considers that poverty results from the failure to satisfy a particular human need, it is
not just an absence of money. Whilst human needs are limited, Max Neef shows that the ways of
satisfying human needs is potentially unlimited. Satisfiers also have different characteristics: they can
be violators or destroyers, pseudosatisfiers, inhibiting satisfiers, singular satisfiers, or synergic
satisfiers. Max-Neef shows that certain satisfiers, promoted as satisfying a particular need, in fact
inhibit or destroy the possibility of satisfying other needs: e.g., the arms race, while ostensibly
satisfying the need for protection, in fact then destroys subsistence, participation, affection and
freedom; formal democracy, which is supposed to meet the need for participation often disempowers
and alienates; commercial television, while used to satisfy the need for recreation, interferes with
understanding, creativity and identity. Synergic satisfiers, on the other hand, not only satisfy one
particular need, but also lead to satisfaction in other areas: some examples are breastfeeding; self-
managed production; popular education; democratic community organizations; preventative
medicine; meditation; educational games.

India

Community development in India was initiated by Government of India through Community

Development Programme (CDP) in 1952. The focus of CDP was on rural communities. But,
professionally trained social workers concentrated their practice in urban areas. Thus, although the
focus of community organization was rural, the major thrust of Social Work gave an urban character
which gave a balance in service for the program.[28]

Vietnam

International organizations apply the term community in Vietnam to the local administrative unit,
each with a traditional identity based on traditional, cultural, and kinship relations.[29] Community
development strategies in Vietnam aim to organize communities in ways that increase their capacities
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to partner with institutions, the participation of local people, transparency and equality, and unity
within local communities.[29]

Social and economic development planning (SDEP) in Vietnam uses top-down centralized planning
methods and decision-making processes which do not consider local context and local participation.
The plans created by SDEP are ineffective and serve mainly for administrative purposes. Local people
are not informed of these development plans.[29] The participatory rural appraisal (PRA) approach, a
research methodology that allows local people to share and evaluate their own life conditions, was
introduced to Vietnam in the early 1990s to help reform the way that government approaches local
communities and development. PRA was used as a tool for mostly outsiders to learn about the local
community, which did not effect substantial change.[30]

The village/commune development (VDP/CDP) approach was developed as a more fitting approach
than PRA to analyze local context and address the needs of rural communities.[29] VDP/CDP
participatory planning is centered around Ho Chi Minh's saying that "People know, people discuss
and people supervise."[30] VDP/CDP is often useful in Vietnam for shifting centralized management
to more decentralization, helping develop local governance at the grassroots level.[30] Local people
use their knowledge to solve local issues.[30] They create mid-term and yearly plans that help improve
existing community development plans with the support of government organizations.[30] Although
VDP/CDP has been tested in many regions in Vietnam, it has not been fully implemented for a couple
reasons.[30] The methods applied in VDP/CDP are human resource and capacity building intensive,
especially at the early stages. It also requires the local people to have an "initiative-taking" attitude.
People in the remote areas where VDP/CDP has been tested have mostly passive attitudes because
they already receive assistance from outsiders.[30] There also are no sufficient monitoring practices to
ensure effective plan implementation. Integrating VDP/CDP into the governmental system is difficult
because the Communist Party and Central government's policies on decentralization are not enforced
in reality.[30]

Non-governmental organizations (NGO) in Vietnam, legalized in 1991, have claimed goals to develop
civil society, which was essentially nonexistent prior to the Đổi Mới economic reforms.[31] NGO
operations in Vietnam do not exactly live up to their claimed goals to expand civil society.[32][31] This
is mainly due to the fact that NGOs in Vietnam are mostly donor-driven, urban, and elite-based
organizations that employ staff with ties to the Communist Party and Central government.[32] NGOs
are also overlooked by the Vietnam Fatherland Front, an umbrella organization that reports
observations directly to the Party and Central government.[31] Since NGOs in Vietnam are not entirely
non-governmental, they have been coined instead as 'VNGOs.'[31] Most VNGOs have originated from
either the state, hospital or university groups, or individuals not previously associated with any
groups.[31] VNGOs have not yet reached those most in need, such as the rural poor, due to the
entrenched power networks' opposition to lobbying for issues such the rural poor's land rights.[32]
Authoritarianism is prevalent in nearly all Vietnamese civic organizations.[33] Authoritarian practices
are more present in inner-organizational functions than in organization leaders' worldviews.[33] These
leaders often reveal both authoritarian and libertarian values in contradiction.[33] Representatives of
Vietnam's NGO's stated that disagreements are normal, but conflicts within an organization should be
avoided, demonstrating the one-party "sameness" mentality of authoritarian rule.[33]

See also
Community building Community education
Complete communities Community engagement

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Community practice Rural community development

Organization workshop Urbanism

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Further reading
Briggs, Xavier de Souza, and Elizabeth Mueller and Mercer Sullivan, From Neighborhood to
Community: Evidence on the Social Effects of Community Development Corporation. Community
Development Research Center, 1997.
Ferguson, Ronald F. and William T. Dickens, eds., Urban Problems and Community Development.
Brookings Institution Press, 1999. ISBN 0-8157-1875-6, ISBN 978-0-8157-1875-8
Grogan, Paul and Tony Proscio, Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival.
Westview Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8133-3952-9, ISBN 978-0-8133-3952-8
von Hoffman, Alexander, House by House, Block by Block: The Rebirth of America's Urban
Neighborhoods. Oxford University Press, 2003, Ppbck. ed., 2004. ISBN 0-19-517614-6,
ISBN 978-0-19-517614-8
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James, Paul; Nadarajah, Yaso; Haive, Karen; Stead, Victoria (2012). Sustainable Communities,
Sustainable Development: Other Paths for Papua New Guinea (https://www.academia.edu/32308
75) (PDF). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
Kingslow, Marcia E.; Horton, Carol (1998), An Overview of the Major Asset Building and
Community Development Literatures (http://www.kingslow-assoc.com/images/AssetBldg___Com
mDev.pdf) (PDF), Chicago, IL: Kingslow Associates, retrieved 16 September 2017
Magee, Liam; James, Paul; Scerri, Andy (2012). "Measuring Social Sustainability: A Community-
Centred Approach" (https://www.academia.edu/5178539). Applied Research in the Quality of Life.
7 (3): 239–61. doi:10.1007/s11482-012-9166-x (https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs11482-012-9166-x).
S2CID 145257262 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:145257262).
McConnell, Charlie, Community Learning and Development: The Making of an Empowering
Profession. Community Learning Scotland/PAULO, 2002, ISBN 0 947919 75 9
Silverman, Robert Mark (2003). "Progressive Reform, Gender, and Institutional Structure: A
Critical Analysis of Citizen Participation in Detroit's Community Development Corporations
(CDCs)". Urban Studies. 40 (13): 2731–2750. doi:10.1080/0042098032000146867 (https://doi.or
g/10.1080%2F0042098032000146867). S2CID 145732284 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/Corpu
sID:145732284).
Sloman, Annie (January 2012). "Using Participatory Theatre in International Community
Development". Community Development Journal. 47 (1): 42–57. doi:10.1093/cdj/bsq059 (https://d
oi.org/10.1093%2Fcdj%2Fbsq059). {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |year= / |date=
mismatch (help)

Towards Shared International Standards for Community Development Practice. IACD. 2018

External links
The Citizens' Handbook (http://citizenshandbook.org/) – A large collection practices and activities
for citizens' groups
National Civic League (https://www.nationalcivicleague.org/) – US organization that promotes
partnerships between government and citizens' groups
Shelterforce (https://shelterforce.org/) – A nonprofit magazine on community development,
affordable housing, and neighborhood stabilization.

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