Community development is a critical tool for achieving development through empowering and capacity building strategies. It involves people in a community jointly working to improve their economic, social, cultural, and environmental situation. Community development aims to increase people's knowledge, skills, attitudes, organizational ability, and access to resources through participation with governmental authorities. The goals are to alleviate poverty, solve social problems, strengthen communities, and achieve socioeconomic development.

1. An Introduction
Community Development
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2. Community Development
• It is a critical dimension of development and a
basic tool for achieving development.
• It involves the strategies of empowering,
capacity building ,mutual help etc.
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3. • Community development is one of the branches
or specialization area of social work
• The evolution of community development
Can be traced with the history of Community
services
It has along history and had taken long time to
reach the present state of it
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4. • Community development is included in various
contexts.
• The reconstruction process after any conflict is
considered as community development
• when the rehabilitation of displaced people are
taken Community development is the major
emphasis
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5. Community or development
( What will be Our focus?)
• Community – a group of people with a shared
identity.
Rural/Urban/Tribal- ( Prolems/isssues)
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6. • “Development” is a process that increases choices. It
means new options, diversification, thinking about
apparent issues differently and anticipating change
(Christenson et.al., 1989)
• Development involves change, improvement and
vitality – a directed attempt to improve
participation, flexibility, equity, attitudes, the
function of institutions and the quality of life. It is
the creation of wealth – wealth meaning the things
people value, not just dollars (Shaffer, 1989).
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7. • Community development relies on interaction
between people and joint action, rather than
individual activity – what some sociologists call
“collective agency” (Flora and Flora, 1993).
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8. • From The history of community Development
CD as used as strategy for poverty alleviation
• In international practicum of social work
community development has vital role to play
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9. • There is no clear agreement on which is
considered as community work, Community
development, community actions ,CO,
community Participation and community
change, all are regarded as CD (Ife 1995)
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10. Defenition
• CD embodies the Concept that collectivities of
people who share common concern ,have the
potential capacity to deal jointly with those
concerns in ways that advance the common
interest (Stoesz 1999)
• He analyzing CD as the joint effort to ensure
advancement in life.
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11. • Community development is a group of people in
a community reaching a decision to initiate a
social action process to change their economic,
social, cultural and environnemental situation –
(Christenson et. al. 1989)
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12. • Community development is a process where people
are united with those of governmental authorities to
improve the economic, social and cultural
conditions of communities and communities are
integrated into the life of the nation enabling them
to contribute fully to national progress.
• (United Nations, from Biggs,1999)
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13. • A professional practice of working and learning with
local people - individuals and groups – to strengthen
their communities by improving people’s Knowledge and
consciousness, Skills and competence , Attitudes and
confidence ,Organizational ability and Resources
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14. • Community development can be viewed as a
method or programme or movement and a
process of change( and bring about change)
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15. • Community development is the demonstration of
ideas, values and ideals of the society in which it is
carried out from a humanitarian perspective.
• it may be seen as search for community mutual
aid ,social support and human liberation in an
alienating ,oppressive ,competitive and
individualistic society.
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16. In its more pragmatic sense CD may be
viewed as
• A Mean for mobilizing communities to join state
or institutional initiatives that are aimed at
alleviating poverty, solving social problems,
strengthening families, fostering democracy and
achieving modernization and socio economic
development ( Campfens 1997)
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17. In Indian context
• CD is process in which people unite and pool
their resources in an effort to improve the
economic social and cultural condition of the
society. it is a programme for developing
material and human resources to the fullest
extent in a cooperative manner (S.N
Bhattacharya)
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18. Development, not just growth
• community development is not just growth
• Growth means more jobs and more investment
• It does not necessarily increase choices,
networks or ability to manage change.
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19. • Community development is consciously planned
directed and evaluated endeavor to participate
and guide designed social change.
• It become an integrated part of a nations
development policy.
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20. CD Works at four levels
• With individual citizens, to help them become more
active
• With local groups or organizations, to help them to
develop and be more effective
• With the network of groups and organizations, to
help them cooperate and gain collective strength
• With public authorities, professional agencies and
the business sector, to make them to identify
community its requirements
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21. Objectives of Community
Development
 Its tool for achieving social development
 Eradication of illiteracy
 Bringing improved health
 Gender concerned development
 Human rights, Social Inclusion
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22. The relationship between industry development, economic
development and community development.
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24. It is political activity
 Process of planned change
 It is more pluralistic and become participator
approach
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