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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:

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