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Community development is both a collective effort and an achievement driven by individual facilitators with the aim of lifting a community out of povertyThe sixth edition of Community Development: Breaking the cycle of poverty continues to be a definitive guide for community development workers, students and practitioners alike. The book contextualises poverty and explains the process of community development. It pays attention to the development environment and explains concepts such as asset-based community development and the social enterprise sector. In addition to context and process, the book details the skills required by a community development worker to function in the field. It also explains how to empower the development worker to train others in order to build capacity in the community and work towards breaking the cycle of poverty.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. The Nature of Community -- CHAPTER 2. Community : Socioculturai Perspective -- CHAPTER 3. Community : Demographic and Ecological Perspectives -- CHAPTER 4. The Process of Community Development -- CHAPTER 5. Leadership and Community Development -- CHAPTER 6. Community Conflict -- CHAPTER 7. Professionals and Community Development -- CHAPTER 8. Research and Community Development -- Index of Names -- Subject Index -- Backmatter

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Africa's development irony -- 1.3 Poverty: from an international to a local understanding -- 1.4 Reflection questions -- 2 Development Approaches and Competing Paradigms -- 2.1 Historical perspective of main development paradigms -- 2.2 Development paradigms in the context of Kenyan history -- 2.3 Competing development approaches in Kenya -- 2.4 Participatory approach and people-centred development -- 2.5 Competing paradigms of social change -- 2.6 A social movement as the way forward -- 2.7 Reflection questions -- 3 Entry Points for Sustainable Community Development -- 3.1 Characterization of a sustainable community -- 3.2 Community institutional and leadership development -- 3.3 Community assets and resource mobilization -- 3.4 Community-Based Health Care (CBHC) -- 3.5 Emerging issues in CBHC -- 3.6 Gender and CBHC -- 3.7 Community food security and sustainable agriculture -- 3.8 Dealing with water scarcity in dryland ecosystems -- 3.9 Alternative income generation -- 3.10 Environmental dimension to community development -- 3.11 Reflection questions -- 4 Roles of Strategic Stakeholders -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Initiating and working through partnerships -- 4.3 Phasing-in and phasing-out -- 4.4 Reflection questions -- 5 Creating an Enabling Environment -- 5.1 Governance -- 5.2 Characteristics of good governance -- 5.3 The change formula -- 5.4 Reflection questions -- 6 Back to the Basics -- 6.1 Dilemma of options for community development -- 6.2 Learning from the "poor" -- 6.3 Reflection questions -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index