Rural community development

- It encompasses a range of approaches and activities that aim to improve the

welfare and livelihoods of people living in rural areas. As a branch of community
development, these approaches pay attention to social issues particularly community
organizing. This is in contrast to other forms of rural development that focus
on public works (e.g. rural roads and electrification) and technology (e.g. tools and
techniques for improving agricultural production).
- It is important in developing countries where a large part of the population is
engaged in farming. Consequently, a range of community development methods have
been created and used by organizations involved in international development. Most
of these efforts to promote rural community development are led by 'experts'
from outside the community such as government officials, staff of non-
governmental organizations and foreign advisers. This has led to a long debate
about the issue of participation, in which questions have been raised about
the sustainability of these efforts and the extent to which rural people are – or are
not – being empowered to make decisions for themselves.
Community organizing

- Is a process where people who live in proximity to each other come together into an
organization that acts in their shared self-interest. Unlike those who promote
more-consensual community building, community organizers generally assume that
social change necessarily involves conflict and social struggle in order to generate
collective power for the powerless. A core goal of community organizing is to
generate durable power for an organization representing the community, allowing it
to influence key decision-makers on a range of issues over time. In the ideal, for
example, this can get community organizing groups a place at the
table before important decisions are made. [1]
Community organizers work with and
develop new local leaders, facilitating coalitions and assisting in the development of
campaigns.
- Is a process by which a group of people organizes and takes measures to influence
the policies or culture surrounding them. The term is usually, but not always, used
to refer to local community organizing.

Public works

- Are a broad category of infrastructure projects, financed and constructed by

the government, for recreational, employment, and health and safety uses in the
greater community. They include public buildings (buildings,
schools, hospitals), transport
 infrastructure (roads, railroads, bridges, pipelines, canals, ports, airports), public
spaces (public squares, parks, beaches), public services (water
supply, sewage, electrical grid, dams), and other, usually long-term,
physical assets and facilities. Though often interchangeable with public
infrastructure and public capital, public works does not necessarily carry an
economic component, thereby being a broader term.
- Is a multi-dimensional concept in economics and politics, touching on multiple arenas
including: recreation (parks, beaches), aesthetics (trees, green space), economy
(goods and people movement, energy), law (police and courts), neighborhood
(community centers, social services buildings). Essentially, it represents
any constructed object that augments a nation's physical infrastructure such as
and others.

Technology

- is the making, modification, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines,

techniques, crafts, systems, and methods of organization, in order to solve a
problem, improve a preexisting solution to a problem, achieve a goal, handle an
applied input/output relation or perform a specific function
- Technology has affected society and its surroundings in a number of ways. In many
societies, technology has helped develop more advanced economies (including
today's global economy) and has allowed the rise of a leisure class. Many
technological processes produce unwanted by-products, known as pollution, and
deplete natural resources, to the detriment of the Earth and its environment.
Various implementations of technology influence the values of a society and new
technology often raises new ethical questions. Examples include the rise of the
notion of efficiency in terms of human productivity, a term originally applied only to
machines, and the challenge of traditional norms.

Prepared by:
Jhayron Azucena
Andy Agapan
CD 4