Suchergebnisse

Enhancing Ubuntu: Promoting Community Connectedness – the Foundation for Social Change for Girls -- Promoting Voice and Agency in Community Development Processes -- Community Development: Our Connectedness, Resilience and Empowerment -- In Search of a Global Ethic of Love and Humanity: Ubuntu and Professional Love in Community Development in Kenya and the United Kingdom -- Saskatoon Green Spaces Connect Community, Twihame Watu Wa Miti -- The Role of Community Leadership Development Programs for Citizen Empowerment and Community Resiliency -- The Role of Cooperative Extension in Community and Economic Development in the United States -- Embedding Intercultural Competencies in Community Development Education: Reflections on a Virtual Exchange -- Disability Inclusive Practices in Community Development: A Scoping Review -- Mothering for Resilience and Empowerment: Narratives of Single Black Mothers and Their Daughters -- Social-medical Integration Towards Health Equity: A Case Study -- Community Resilience, Moving from Adaption to Confrontation -- Monitoring & Evaluation, Localisation and Post-Development: Is Localised M&E an Alternative to Current M&E?

"This handbook sets a new research agenda in community development. The contributors redefine existing areas within the context of interdisciplinary research, highlight emerging areas for community development related research, and provide researchers and post-graduate students with ideas and encouragement for future research activity. To do this, the editors have deliberately chosen to frame this book not through a traditional sociological lens of class, race and gender, but through a "Wicked Problems" framework.Drawing upon the work of 37 international authors, in diverse settings such as West Papua, Peru, the USA and Australia; and with methodologies equally as diverse, from case studies and interviews to the use of music and story-telling, this handbook focuses upon five Wicked Problems: forced displacement; family, gender and child related violence; indigenous marginalisation; climate change and food security; and human survival in the context of disaster and recovery work.By drawing together leading scholars from community development, social work and social policy, this handbook provides an up to the minute snapshot of current scholarship as well as signposting several fruitful avenues for future research. This book is both an invaluable resource for both scholars and practitioners and an indispensable teaching tool for use in the classroom and in the field."--Provided by publisher.

The present study aims to determine the potential community foundations in Germany have for community development. Therefore six randomly chosen small-size community foundations were interviewed regarding their financial settings, level of professionalization and their commitment towards community development. By using qualitative content analysis this article assesses the relevance of reaching their defined goals in contrast to the need of satisfying the demand of current and potential donors. The results indicate that small foundations initially depend highly on the involvement of voluntary board members and on the independence of political authorities. Furthermore, the results show that a process of professionalization is necessary already in the first years of existence.