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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

This book focuses upon the contributions that research can make towards strengthening community development and working for social justice agendas in Britain. Drawing upon original research, as part of the Third Sector Research Capacity Building Cluster, the volume explores different ways in which research can contribute to capacity building and 'research mindedness' in the Third Sector. This includes the contributions that community-university research partnerships can make, enabling organisations and social movements to undertake research for themselves. Examples include research with refuge

A comprehensive approach focused on sustainable change Asset Building and Community Development, Fourth Edition examines the promise and limits of community development by showing students and practitioners how asset-based developments can improve the sustainability and quality of life. Authors Gary Paul Green and Anna Haines provide an engaging, thought-provoking, and comprehensive approach to asset building by focusing on the role of different forms of community capital in the development process. Updated throughout, this text explores how communities are building on their key assets -- physical, human, social, financial, environmental, political, and cultural capital -- to generate positive change. With a focus on community outcomes, the authors illustrate how development controlled by community-based organizations provides a better match between assets and the needs of the community.