The Role of Stakeholders in Community Development

Community development involves changing the relationships between ordinary people and people in positions of power, so that everyone can take part in the issues that affect their lives. It starts from the principle that within any community there is a wealth of knowledge and experience which, if used in creative ways, can be channeled into collective action to achieve the communities' desired goals.

Councils helping making it easier for new people to adapted in to new local areas opening communities’ centres we can learn and be more productive in our daily lives

In communities, there are several factors that must be considered. Is there a need for change? Where is

When the members of a dilapidated and impoverished community are complacent with their current position within society, they are highly unlikely to see any positive change. To gain the attention of the government, one must care about improving oneś community. If a community wants to improve, they must employ the help of representatives that wish to immediately ameliorate them of their problems. However, a community taking this action is quite sparse, for many people are complacent or apathetic towards their current position within society. If people want to improve their material conditions in their community, they must take

6). If collaboration and engagement occurs at the beginning, however, and if the process of policy development provides opportunities for each community to pursue their priorities based on what they value and hope to accomplish, this it is feasible. (Lavoie, 2013) Having said that, collaboration and communication is not easy given the diversity and geographic locations of First Nations communities provincially an throughout the nation. To overcome this challenge, local authorities and local community forums may be

The importance of understanding the community cannot be overstated. Most people access resources at the community level, regardless of whether the program funding originates at the local, state, or national level. It is at the community level that government is potentially most responsive to individual citizens. Quality-of-life issues are most profoundly confronted at the local level.

Within a community, using qualitative measures to gather information on the needs therein becomes a necessity. The people who are living and working in this area are the ones who will best know where it has lack. They bring ‘reality’ to the table and lay it plain for the government officials who, perhaps, don’t see

Many communities have expressed that consultation processes left them with feelings of tokenism and powerlessness to affect decision making. A report by Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry in 2002 suggests a need to move away from consultation towards negotiation, as a process which enables equal power relationships to develop. The notion of negotiation as opposed to consultation is not new in global literature. Many models of engagement cite Arnstein’s original ‘ladder of participation’, which ranged from citizen control to tokenism (Arnstein 2011; Cornwall 2008). The UK Health for All Network describes in depth this scale of engagement, describing a continuum in which the community has control, has some delegated powers, is

Theoretically, community needs assessments are a great way to identify gaps within communities and improving the life of individuals within a target group. If there is a collaboration of all three components of the community needs assessment model, Assessment, Dissemination and

Community development is multi-faceted. Bhattacharyya (2004) argues that community development is not a distinct field and that not everything that is being done by developers to improve communities should not be regarded as community development. Bhattacharyya (2004) states that it should only be regarded as community development if the improvement pursues solidarity and agency which can be achieved through adhering to the principles of self-help, felt needs and participation.

Through this class, I understand the general gist of what controls the community in terms of power, organizational strength, and political influences. I have learned about what factors into certain decisions that community members make and what the recent outlook of community participation is. Even though I learned that community participation and involvement in organizations has declined over the past years, it is hopeful to find ways to combat this social apathy that is happening in America today. I enjoyed learning about strategies to help groups of people interact and create an active and responsive community power. The Greene and Haines text was well-organized, strategic, direct, and practical to the subject matter.

Ownership over the mode of production from a Marxist perspective has helped inform community development by allowing the community development workers to see that collective approaches are central to the concept of changing structures and processes within society.

Community is established locally but community development is a process that includes actors from inside and outside of the community to achieve sustainability. My previous essays have addressed the progression of community development from place-based attachment, organizing and advocacy to addressing the need and effect of government involvement. The final stop on the continuum of the community development is to analyze market-based approaches to community development. This paper will look at how a market based approach to community development is an important component of community development because it is the appropriate response to the current socio-economic, and political context that our country is in. A market-based approach provides a mechanism to define relationships and allocate economic resources to create systemic change within communities. increasing opportunities for social inclusion and economic sustainability

The Department of Homeland Security released the 2014 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review on June 18, 2014 as required by the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and its amendments. This review outlined the current state of preparedness, as well as the future areas of concentration. It also determined six strategic challenges facing the nation: terrorist threat; growing cyber threats; biological concerns as a whole; nuclear terrorism; transnational criminal organizations; and natural hazards. The basic building block of emergency management in the U.S. is the local community. Each step begins here. Threat assessments are completed on the local level. Planning, mitigation, and response are all responsibilities of the local community to support the state and Federal practice using the guidance provided by both.

Community development (CD) has been playing an important role within the society as it is a critical practice that identifies and attempts to address unequal relations of power (Forde & Lynch, 2015). In CD, social capital is an important term as it refers to the networks and norms that enable collective action. In general, social capital is the level of trust between members within the community. Social workers need to understand and empower the social capital to strengthen the community through collective action based on the existing resources.