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Community Development PDF
DEFINITION OF COMMUNITY:
term
community
has
two
distinct commutative meanings: 1) Community can refer to
a usually small, social unit of any size that shares common
values. The term can also refer to the national
community or international community, and 2) in biology,
a community is a group of interacting living
organisms sharing a populated environment.
In human communities, intent, belief, resources, preferenc
es, needs, risks, and a number of other conditions may be
present and common, affecting the identity of the
participants and their degree of cohesiveness.
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INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT
"Community development is a structured intervention that gives
building is a process of
deliberate design based
on the knowledge and
application of certain
rules. He states that this
process goes through
four stages:
TYPES OF COMMUNITY:
Geographic
communities: range
from the
local neighboorhood, su
burb, village, town or city
, region, nation or even
the planet as a whole.
These refer to
communities of location.
sub-culture, ethnic
group, religious, multicultural or pluralistic civilization, or
the global community cultures of today. They may be
included as communities of need or identity, such
as disabled persons, or frail aged people.
Community organizations: range from
informal family or kinship networks, to more
formal incorporated associations, political decision making
structures, economic enterprises, or professional
associations at a small, national or international scale.
Note: Communities are nested; one community can contain
anotherfor example a geographic community may
contain a number of ethnic communities.
UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT INCLUDES:
Community Development is crucially concerned with
Community
Development should
seek to develop
structures which enable
the active involvement of
people from
disadvantaged groups,
and in particular people
from Black and Minority
Ethnic groups.