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Community Development

Community Development is a process whereby community members come together to take collective action and generate solutions to common problems. Through this process, participants build relationships while developing skills and knowledge they believe to be necessary to improve the life of all community members. Community Development is: a "grassroots" process by which communities:

• Become more responsible
• Organize and plan together
• Develop healthy options
• Empower themselves
• Reduce ignorance, poverty and suffering
• Create employment and economic opportunities; and
• Achieve social, economic, cultural and environmental goals

From The Community Development Handbook: A tool to build community capacity, Written by Flo Frank and Anne Smith

Where possible we use a learning circle format, as we believe that individuals/groups/communities have the ability to identify and solve their own problems. Community development requires:

• Collaboration
• Community based action
• Broad and inclusive participation
• Shared decision making
• Patience over a long time