Two types of community development
Rural Development
Urban Development
The core of community development
Enabling
Education
Empowering
Characteristics of community development
- Focuses on the whole community
- Emphasizes public participation as self-help.
- Uses participatory democracy as model for decision making.
Self-help and ______ are required for successful development.
Self-responsibility
______ in public ______ should be free and open to all citizens.
Participation; Decision-making
____ is essential for an effective working relationship.
Trust
_________ and _________ are the basis for community change.
Understanding and general agreement
All individuals have _____ in open discussion and the responsibility to ______ opposing viewpoints.
Right to be heard; respect
Pillars of CD
Objectives
People
Strategy
Technology
Process of community development
- Getting Knowledge
- Knowing the Community
- Identifying the local leaders
- Stimulating community
- Recognizing the resources
- Deciding the program
- Fostering self-confidence
- Discussing the problem
- Identifying pressing problem
- Increasing self-help
- Solving Problem
It aims at improving the welfare of rural people and their livelihoods on a sustainable and equitable basis.
Rural Community Development
Major Aims of RCD
- Hygiene
2.Infant Welfare - Public Health
- Sanitation
Other objectives of RCD
- To help them build social and economic infrastructure
- To train rural unemployed youth
- To empower farmers/ laborers to discourage migration to urban.
Processes of RD
- Confirm the spread problem by gathering more information.
- Examine data from step one.
- Set goals and formulate actions for improvement.
- Implement actions for improvement
- Assess progress and refine actors for improvement.
- Monitor improvement for sustainability.
It requires the urban citizen’s efforts like financial support and technical assistance in areas like sanitation, public health, education, and recreation.
Urban Community Development
It is the process through which the human being is assisted in his ______ within the scope of his potential.
growth and development; Depositario 1991
The process of ___ to improve their own communities by undertaking collective action.
Assisting ordinary people; Twelvetress 1991
It concerns with the development of attitudes, understanding and skills. These are manifested by the change observed in people’s action such as _________________.
cooperativeness and social responsibilities; Bernan 1968
