Co-producing research: A community development approach

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Sarah Banks ◽  
Angie Hart ◽  
Kate Pahl ◽  
Paul Ward
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Community Development ◽  
University Research ◽  
Collaborative Approach ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Developing Communities ◽  
Communities Of Place ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
Collective Capacity

This is the introductory chapter of the book Co-producing research: A community development approach. It introduces the co-editors and explains the genesis of the book, based on the learning from a complex community-university research project, Imagine – connecting communities through research. It outlines a community development approach to the co-production of research, described as: research undertaken collaboratively by several parties that values multiple perspectives and voices; contributes to creating and developing communities of place, interest and identity; builds collective capacity for action; and works towards social change. It offers an overview of the chapters in the book and argues for an interdisciplinary collaborative approach.

scholarly journals Rethinking Group-Based Development Approach in Nepal: Ways Forward

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-64
Author(s):  
Stuty Maskey
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Group Formation ◽  
Entry Point ◽  
Group Approach ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Developing Communities ◽  
The Common ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
Substantial Interest

Over the last few decades, the role of ‘group-formation’ for community development has drawn substantial interest from policy makers, academics and development practitioners. This paper aims to examine the growing popularity of these development groups especially in the context where ‘groups’ are now the common entry point in most development programmes and projects in Nepal. The increasing popularity of the group approach, however, brings attention to some important questions. Is group formation a sin-qua-non for community development? Does group mobilisation always work out as per expectation? The purpose of this paper is not to provide a complete alternate option to the group approach but rather raise a note of caution on why excessive reliance on this approach must be viewed cautiously. By highlighting some issues related to this approach, this paper claims that although groups formed for community development have great potential, they should not be viewed as a panacea for developing communities; instead they should be viewed as an important component in tackling developmental challenges.  

Conclusion: Imagining different communities and making them happen

2018 ◽  
pp. 203-210
Author(s):  
Paul Ward ◽  
Sarah Banks ◽  
Angie Hart ◽  
Kate Pahl
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
University Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Development Approach

This is the final chapter of Co-producing research: A community development approach. It draws together key messages and learning from previous chapters about a complex community-university research project, Imagine – connecting communities through research. It outlines the challenges and rewards of a community development approach to co-producing research, including working with diversity and difference and being prepared to be flexible, creative and patient. It ends by discussing a final writing retreat to encapsulate key achievements and learning from the project, ending with the advice to ‘embrace the unexpected’.

Shared Action: Stronger communities, safer children

2002 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-28
Author(s):  
Fiona Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
Community Activities ◽  
Community Ownership ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Community Responsibility ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
Exciting Project

This article explores the effectiveness of an innovative and exciting project called ‘Shared Action’, a community development approach to child protection in Bendigo, Victoria. Shared Action was a three-year project which started in January 1997. It began by encouraging a sense of community ownership. A shared vision was developed with key goals leading to a wide range of community activities. A sense of hope and cooperation grew along with social networks, the capacity to resolve conflict constructively and a shared sense of community responsibility.

scholarly journals Social Change through Entrepreneurship: Utilizing Portable Sawmill Based Small Businesses to Promote Community Development

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Crystal Lupo
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Wood Products ◽  
Forest Industry ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization

Reduced demand for wood and wood products resulting from the economic crisis in the first decade of the 2000s severely impacted the forest industry throughout the world, causing large forest-based organizations to close (CBC News, 2008; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009; Pepke, 2009). The result was a dramatic increase in unemployment and worker displacement among forest product workers between 2011 and 2013 (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2014). Forested rural communities often depended on the large-scale forest industry for their livelihood, and as a result, decreased reliance on large-scale industry became increasingly important (Lupo, 2015). This article explores portable-sawmill-based entrepreneurship as an opportunity to promote social change in the local community. Results indicated that portable-sawmill-based small businesses created community development opportunities, which promoted social change in the larger community through farm business expansion, conservation efforts to improve local community development, and niche market creation in the local or larger community.

The Role of Islamic Microfinance Approach for Community Development

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Malik Shahzad Shabbir ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Core Components ◽  
Effective Community ◽  
Islamic Microfinance ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
Management Staff

The fields of zakat-based microfinance and community development are not often placed under the same theoretical lens that both aim to empower disadvantaged people. This study investigates the experiences of borrowers in the implementation of zakat-based microfinance and analyses the different driving factors they applied in their choice of the zakat-based microfinance of Da’arut Tauhid Peduli in Bandung, Indonesia. It applies a community development framework, based on the five characteristics, to explore this Islamic microfinance approach as an effective community development program, which has a religious dimension. Primary data were obtained from semi-structured interviews with the borrowers along with participation observation at a weekly majelis meeting, and these were triangulated with information cross-checked with management staff of the institution. The findings demonstrate three out of five characteristics of zakat-based microfinance approach as an effective community development program. They include characteristics in constantly maintaining power relation between borrowers and the institution, increasing capability and ability of borrowers to be more independent and empowered, and long-term duration of the program and sustainability. The findings showed that spiritual factors appear to have been an additional driving force on top of economic and non-economic factors for most borrowers choosing this particular program. With respect to zakat-based microfinance as a community development approach, practitioners need to develop longer-term strategic planning that takes into account the principles and core components of both zakat and community development; this would facilitate both the economical and spiritual empowerment of recipients to widen the scope of change, as well as expand benefits from their families to the wider community

Service Science and Practice

2010 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Adamantios Koumpis
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Relationship Management ◽  
Service Design ◽  
Service Science ◽  
Business Service ◽  
Collaborative Approach ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Science Part ◽  
Successes And Failures

This introductory chapter aims to make clear the holistic nature of services to our lives linking the science part to the practice matters. Bringing examples for service successes and failures, this chapter shall help the reader position him or herself with the field under examination. We present and discuss the collaborative approach towards service design and the contextualisation of services as leverage for attaining competitive advantage. Critical factors are listed that concern relationship management in business service contexts and which are considered in terms of the collaboration dimension. The chapter closes with an examination of power dependencies and trust in collaborative service arrangements.

A radical community development response to right-wing populism

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-70
Author(s):  
Peter Westoby
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Associational Life ◽  
Right Wing Populism

This chapter evaluates what community development's response might be to right-wing populism. It begins by looking at the literature's analysis of right-wing populism. The chapter then considers a theory of social change that might help in charting a way forward for community development praxis. Community development practitioners need to engage locally and globally, bringing their particular skills in creating spaces, places, and platforms for associational life, filled with dialogical and agonistic conflict. It is their job to create the places where people can put aside their rage, and learn the disciplines of conversation and deliberation, heard, while not affirmed as necessarily right. In a nutshell, the work of reconnecting. These are the basic qualities of liberal democracy also infused with a radical egalitarian spirit, and a cohesive society.

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