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What is Community Development?
(adopted from Community Development National Occupational Standards)
Community development enables people to work collectively to bring about positive social change. This long term process starts from people’s own experience and enables communities* to work together to:
- Identify their own needs and actions
- Take collective action using their strengths and resources
- Develop their confidence, skills and knowledge
- Challenge unequal power relationships
- Promote social justice, equality and inclusion
in order to improve the quality of their own lives, the communities in which they live and societies of which they are a part.
*Communities refer to those that can be defined by geography, identity or interest.
“Community development enables people to work collectively to bring about positive social change.”
From Community Development National Occupational Standards

