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From clients to citizens: Asset-based Community Development as a strategy for community-driven development [PDF]
Development in Practice, 2003 In this paper, Asset-based Community Development (ABCD) is presented as an alternative to needs-based approaches to development. Following an overview of the principles and practice of ABCD, four major elements of ABCD are examined in light of the current literature on relevant research and practice.
Mathie, Alison, Cunningham, Gord
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International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2021 This article explores how the asset-based community development approach has improved the living conditions of the urban slum communities and have also addressed the house level poverty through direct asset transfer that can have positive co-benefits for
Md. Zakir Hossain, Md. Mostafizur Rahman
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Gateways, 2023 Many rural areas suffer from severe depopulation, and the absence of a university is one reason for outmigration. Where research and education are valued, however, such rural areas can attract scholars and students visiting from universities and ...
Kenji Kitamura +9 more
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Community Informatics: Library Facilitating Community Development
Tūzī yǔ dàng’àn xuékān, 2022 The new library science is moving towards the community, hoping to help its development through knowledge innovation. The relationship between the community and the library has become closer, and the librarians’ mission is to help change the community ...
Ling-Hwey Jeng, Mei-Ling Wang
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Gateways, 2023 Faith-based community anchor institutions are important collaborators in community development. They are respected social innovators who deploy their assets for the common good, especially good works aimed towards helping marginalised communities ...
Linda Coley +2 more
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Gateways, 2023 This themed volume is grounded in a set of diverse case studies that bring community and university partners together using two aligned methodologies: community-based research (CBR), which evolved from higher education, and asset-based community ...
Mark Chupp +2 more
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Faith as an asset in a community development project: The case of Madagascar
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021 Contributing to the emerging religion and development literature, this study sets out to analyse the role of faith in the context of a particular development approach, ‘Use Your Talents’ (UYT) at the Malagasy Lutheran Church in Madagascar.
Zo R. Rakotoarison +2 more
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Does more medicine make us sicker? Ivan Illich revisited
Gaceta Sanitaria, 2019 A proper understanding of health is a social and political challenge, the modern social medicine approach to public health and health approaches more generally tend to minimise this, making the isolated individual the primary unit of health. Ivan Illich,
Cormac Russell
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Societies, 2020 This paper explores two policy efforts to revitalize public housing communities: education reform and HOPE VI. Chicago underwent transformation of housing and schools from 2000 to 2014.
April Jackson
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Societies, 2020 Community-based theater has a variety of manifestations, and the plurality with which these manifestations are occurring is increasing. As such, the diversity and complexity derived from these social sites of public engagement requires further ...
Zechariah Lange
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