International community development practice

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Case Study Authors -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 The Making of an Empowering Profession -- 2 Putting Ethics and Values into Community Development Practice -- Case Study 1 - India: Promoting Social Justice in Garment Work Districts in Tamil Nadu -- Case Study 2 - Ireland and Scotland: Small Places Close to Home: Housing Rights in Practice -- Case Study 3 - Kenya: Case Study Life Bloom Services International -- Case Study 4 - Australia: The Agunya Project -- Case Study 5 - Scotland. UK: Developing a Code of Ethics -- 3 Engaging with Communities -- Case Study 1: India: The Grassroots Story -- Case Study 2: Nicaragua: Hope and Clean Water -- Case Study 3: Mongolia: Partnership for Organic Farming -- Case Study 4: Peru: Constructing a Metropolitan Green Belt -- Case Study 5: Kenya: A Community-Based Approach to Tackling Violent Extremism -- 4 Ensuring Participatory Planning -- Case Study 1 - Croatia: Putting the Pieces Back Together -- Case Study 2 - Hong Kong, China: Bottom-up Participatory Planning on Wing Fong Street Market -- Case Study 3 - Global: A "Glocal" Assets- and Strengths-Based (un)Conference: Co-Creating Our Stories of Hope and Action -- Case Study 4 -New Zealand/UK: Engaging with the CHASE Model to Enhance Community Wellbeing -- Case Study 5 - South Africa: Bafenyi ka Bakwena Community Champions Project -- 5 How to Organize for Change -- Case Study 1 - Zimbabwe: Young People Organizing for Community Transformation -- Case Study 2 - Peru: Sustainable Tourism in San Bartolo -- Case Study 3 - Canada: Citizens Struggling Near the Lagoons of Mercier -- Case Study 4 - England: Anti Toxic Dump Campaign -- Case Study 5 - Hungary: The Story of Ág -- 6 Learning for Change.

International Community Development Practice provides readers with practice-based examples of good community development, demonstrating its value for strengthening people power and improving the effectiveness of development agencies, whether these be governmental, non-governmental or private sector. The chapters focus upon the making of the community development profession and the eight core competences required of the professional practitioner, as outlined by the International Association for Community Development (IACD), whatever their job title or host agency, in order to be able to undertake community development. These are concerned with the ability of the practitioner to: Put ethics and values into practice Engage with communities Ensure participatory planning Organize for change Support learning for change Promote diversity and inclusion Build leadership and infrastructure Develop and improve policy and practice From a policy perspective, the book will reassert the role of community development approaches as related to a wide variety of global challenges, including poverty amelioration, climate change, human rights, peace building and social, environmental, political and economic development. From a practice perspective, the book will reassert the importance of high levels of professional competence building upon decades of experience in the field around the world by development practitioners working in community work, social work, health, adult education, environmental protection, local economic development, urban design, cultural work and other disciplines concerned to support effective community development.