community development Flashcards
what is community develeopment
it is a structured intervention that gives communities greater control over the conditions that affect their lives. it aims to adress the issues of powerless and disadvantage so it invloves all memebers of society.
what are the 6 community development
- sustainability
- diversity
- human rights
- social justice
- adressing disadvantage
- valuing local culture, knowledge, skills and resoucres.
describe sustainabilty
refers to a means of configuring communities and human activity so that society, and its members and its economies are able to meet their needs and express their greatest potential in the present, while planning and acting for the ability to maintain these ideals in the long term.
describe diversity
refers to the quality of being different
describe human rights
refers to basic human rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled
describe social justice
the concept of scial justice may hold some or all of the following beleifs:
- historical inequalities
- redistrubution of wealth, power and status for the individual, communtiy and societal good
describe addressing disavdavantage
it is the responsibilty of governements, policy makers, ttreasury, and the united nations.
describe valuing local knowledge, cultural skills and resources
culture skills and resources have an already existing real potnetial skills and resources.