Community Development Strategies and Assets
- 1. Community Development Strategies The role of community in national and sustainity
- 2. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES ď‚´To promote the use and implementation of community development as central to community capacity building and the delivery of public and community sector services. ď‚´Seeks to both establish standards for engagement with communities and identify resources and procedures that support such engagement. ď‚´Aims to empower people at all levels; to enables them to influence decisions.
- 3. 5 STRATEGIES FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT  1. Food security – This could be agriculture-related projects that help people produce food, store food, use food more economically, or grow/produce marketable products. These generate income that can be applied to purchasing food. Food security could also be job skills training or small business startups to help increase overall individual and family income.
- 4.  2. Health care– We mainly use health care in the form of health care education, health extension work, and development of local health care capacities. A community development framework is utilized to gather and engage communities and individuals in topics and issues of health care particular to their situation. Examples are mother/child health classes, nutrition education, community level first aid, or wellness/sickness recognition programs
- 5.  3. Water and sanitation– A common development- oriented project is helping people with clean water. This can be done through the development of local sources such as gravity-fed spring systems, well drilling, rainwater harvesting, etc. It is also commonly accomplished through community-based filtration/purification systems. However, water development projects can manifest themselves in other types of projects such as water for agricultural use (irrigation/food production) or sanitation/hygiene needs (hand washing stations, water sealed sanitary toilets, etc.)
- 6.  4. Education and literacy – For children and youth, education can include child sponsorship projects, accrual of necessary materials for attending school (books, supplies, uniforms, etc.), or even simple things such as healthy school lunches. For adults, this is often seen in adult literacy and training programs. An interesting side note is that there seems globally to be a positive correlation between adult female literacy and the overall development and health of a community.
- 7. 5. Microenterprise/Microfinance– This is a growing strategy for many development organizations, seen by some as the “silver bullet” to all the development issues of a community. It isn’t. However, projects that utilize good community development principles and work mainly from the resources generating in the local community do have great potential for helping groups overcome poverty.
- 8. The role of community in national and sustainity  First, we need to understand that a nation is actually a large community. Community development is important for nation-building because a country needs educated people who can help the economy by creating jobs, starting their own businesses, and contributing their skills, talents, and ideas for the good of the country.  Second, education leads to employment and thus begins a cycle of prosperity for families and for the country.  Third, people who’ve jobs and earn money spend it on other things like clothes, cars, and food. All these sales generate income for companies.
- 9. Role of community in sustainable development ď‚´ Direct participation from the community fosters the inclusive development of all its members. Economic progress leads to social change, better access to education and healthcare, and infrastructural growth. ď‚´ A community would have the most proficient knowledge about their local realities. Hence, it is imperative to design welfare campaigns that are grounded in these insights. ď‚´ Empowering the community to identify solutions to the local challenges would help them reduce their dependence on bureaucratic institutions and State action. It would enable them to become self-sufficient, through mutually-beneficial partnerships with NGOs and other organizations.
- 10. Resources: ď‚´ https://gobgr.org/5-strategies-for-community-development/ ď‚´ https://gobgr.org/microenterprise-or-microfinance/ ď‚´ https://everythingwhat.com/what-are-the-roles-of-community- development-in-national-development
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