Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 7 views

    Community (Locality) Development

    Uploaded by

    Marvin Noces
    The document discusses locality development, which is community building by improving how things get done within a community. Locality development creates infrastructure for community action and emphasizes positive community action. It breaks down barriers, brings people together, and lays a foundation for community support of important issues while helping people gain skills.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PPT, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Community (Locality) Development

    Uploaded by

    Marvin Noces
    7 views8 pages
    The document discusses locality development, which is community building by improving how things get done within a community. Locality development creates infrastructure for community action and emphasizes positive community action. It breaks down barriers, brings people together, and lays a foundation for community support of important issues while helping people gain skills.

    Original Title

    5.2_2

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PPT, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    The document discusses locality development, which is community building by improving how things get done within a community. Locality development creates infrastructure for community action and emphasizes positive community action. It breaks down barriers, brings people together, and lays a foundation for community support of important issues while helping people gain skills.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PPT, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as ppt, pdf, or txt
    7 views8 pages

    Community (Locality) Development

    Uploaded by

    Marvin Noces
    The document discusses locality development, which is community building by improving how things get done within a community. Locality development creates infrastructure for community action and emphasizes positive community action. It breaks down barriers, brings people together, and lays a foundation for community support of important issues while helping people gain skills.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PPT, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as ppt, pdf, or txt
    You are on page 1of 8

    Community (Locality)

    Development

    Copyright © 2014 by The University of Kansas


    What is locality development?

    • Locality development is community building


    through improving the process by which things get
    done.
    • Locality development creates an infrastructure for
    community activism and action.
    • Locality development emphasizes positive action on
    the part of a whole community.

    Copyright © 2014 by The University of Kansas


    Why should you engage in locality
    development?
    • Locality development breaks down barriers within the
    community by encouraging and improving
    communication among all individuals and groups in
    the population.
    • Locality development brings together people who
    normally have no contact, and defines the community
    as including all of them.
    • Locality development lays a solid foundation for
    community support of activism around issues of
    importance.
    • Locality development helps individuals and groups
    acquire new skills and knowledge.

    Copyright © 2014 by The University of Kansas


    Why should you engage in locality
    development? (cont.)
    • Locality development brings forth natural leaders from within the
    community.
    • Locality development encourages the community to identify its own
    resources and understand its own strengths.
    • Locality development makes the community self-sufficient and able
    to identify and solve its own problems.
    • Locality development gives voice to everyone, and makes
    participatory democracy the normal method of community
    decision-making.
    • Locality development builds a foundation for real community and
    equity, leading to a healthy community and long-term, positive,
    social change.

    Copyright © 2014 by The University of Kansas


    When should you engage in locality
    development?
    Locality development is appropriate at almost
    any time in almost any community.

    Copyright © 2014 by The University of Kansas


    Who should be involved in locality
    development?
    Locality development should be inclusive and
    participatory, involving people from all sectors
    and areas of the community.

    Copyright © 2014 by The University of Kansas


    How do you engage in locality
    development?
    • Get to know the community by learning its history,
    spending time experiencing it, and establishing
    relationships with its members.
    • Determine what will motivate the community to organize.
    • Identify opinion leaders and other trusted individuals and
    groups, and work with them.
    • Recruit people to the effort.
    • Establish a communication system.
    • Encourage leadership from within the community.

    Copyright © 2014 by The University of Kansas


    How do you engage in locality
    development? (cont.)
    • Create a structure as a focus for the development
    effort.
    • Define the most important issues that relate to the
    community’s overall concerns.
    • Develop a strategic plan.
    • Continually monitor and evaluate your work.
    • Make the locality development effort self-
    sustaining and community-run, so that it’s
    established as a permanent fixture.

    Copyright © 2014 by The University of Kansas

    You might also like