Emerging from the reds, greens and stripped screws: a communal healing process

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 713-730 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phia van der Watt
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Healing Process ◽  
Authentic Self ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Vulnerable Communities ◽  
Group Context ◽  
Support Programme ◽  
Transformative Action ◽  
Communal Healing ◽  
Development Context

Abstract The article posits that the field of community development does not adequately engage with intergenerational communal wounding. A family support programme, developed in vulnerable communities in South Africa, was used as case study to investigate the feasibility of healing within community development. The articulation of a clear storyline to guide the process was identified as critical. The programme’s storyline unfolded in four episodes: facing the past (reds and greens); exploring current manifestations thereof (labels, secrets, obscured desires and projections); naming debilitating problems (the screws) to elicit a yearning for healing and action and creating new life stories. Reflection and mirroring through group work were identified as critical elements in this approach. The study concludes that while participants originally accepted the (false) messages/images resulting from oppression and discrimination uncritically, a more authentic self gradually emerged, which directed transformative action (underscoring the Freirean concept of conscientisation). The study invites further debate/research on issues, such as personal healing within group context; the dilemma of risk-and-failure; the slow nature of healing versus organisational demands; and the balance between promises for material improvement and healing. The study shows that communal healing work is both feasible and critically needed within the community development context and offers a practical way to realise this.

Implementing PAR in a Thai community development context

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-215
Author(s):  
Nuntiya Doungphummes ◽  
Mark Vicars
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Development Context ◽  
Participatory Inquiry

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present an account of a PAR project in a Thai community and to discuss the methodological implications of implementing a culturally responsive approach.Design/methodology/approachThe paper draws on the frameworks for PAR conducted as a community development project with rural Thai communities.FindingsThe paper reviews the use of a PAR approach as a culturally responsive approach and presents an experience of culturally situated research practice.Originality/valueThis paper encourages researchers conducting participatory inquiry to engage in deeper critical reflection on the implications of these methods in keeping with PAR's critical ontological, epistemological and axiological orientation.

The Role of Community Development as a Partner in Health

2019 ◽  
pp. 329-350
Author(s):  
Douglas Jutte
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ◽  
Structural Determinants ◽  
Vulnerable Communities ◽  
Personal Expertise ◽  
Improve Health

This chapter introduces the community development sector, an extensive network of financially skilled institutions and members that work collectively to reduce poverty in underserved and under-resourced communities by addressing social and structural determinants of health. Offering innovative and sizeable financial opportunities to invest and improve vulnerable communities, this sector shares a common mission to improve health, generates economic growth, and catalyzes and sustains multi-sector partnerships for population health improvements. The chapter adds some narrative on personal expertise as a funder at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and describes how they have gotten involved with Community Development Financial Institutions.

6 Compassionate neighbours – an innovative model building caring communities

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 362.1-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carly Attridge ◽  
Heather Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Terminal Illness ◽  
Model Building ◽  
Community Members ◽  
The Social ◽  
Recent Conference ◽  
Development Context ◽  
Caring Communities ◽  
Set Up

IntroductionIn 2014 St Joseph’s Hospice set up compassionate neighbours (CN) to address social isolation for those experiencing a chronic or terminal illness. Built on foundations of community development principles the neighbours provide emotional and social support to community members. With significant funding from Nesta we are upscaling the project with seven other hospices.AimOur aim is to build a wider network of CN who are supporting people in their local communities; we will test and learn how the project can be replicated in other areas. Our ultimate aim is to create a social movement establishing a network of CNs across the country.MethodWe are training and mentoring other hospice adopters to replicate the project in their own areas whilst testing which ingredients are key to the success of the project. Our review of the programme including formal evaluation will form the basis for a potential national roll out across the country.ResultsReview of our progress including a recent conference for CN feedback from hospice CEOs and project leads describes ongoing interest in the CN programme. There is additional interest from other hospices and other organisations outside of the Nesta programme. That said challenges exist around local implementation of a model shaped elsewhere translation of particular principles underpinning the CN programme and concerns around long-term sustainability and ownership of the network.ConclusionFurther thought is required about how to build the social movement and whether this effort should sit within the hospice sector or within a community development context in the future.

scholarly journals Understanding Community Development Financial Institutions and their Impact in Low- and Moderate-Income Neighborhoods

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 001-152
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Vulnerable Communities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Community Development Financial Institutions ◽  
Community Facilities

Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) are mission-driven lenders that create economic opportunity for low-income communities and individuals throughout the United States. The history of CDFIs dates back to the 1970s. There are currently over 1,100 operating as banks, credit unions, nonprofit loan funds, and venture capital funds. CDFI financing leads to the creation of jobs, affordable housing, community facilities and more. This issue of the Community Development Innovation Review is a collection of research papers designed to expand our understanding of CDFIs and their impacts in vulnerable communities across the country.

scholarly journals The New Development Context in Morocco and Communication for Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 30-36
Author(s):  
Abil Abdellah ◽  
Imane Erramli
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
New Development ◽  
Development Context ◽  
Communication For Development

If development can be compared to the weaving of a cloth by millions of human beings, the thread of communication can weave the fabric in a sustainable way. And as long as the populations concerned by community development projects do not become the true actors of their own development management, no management or technology contribution alone will be able to improve their living standards in a sustainable manner. The contribution of communication to a development project is considerable: identification and prioritization of development priorities, search for collective solutions and reinforcement of the feeling of belonging to the said projects that they have decided to undertake. However, since the launch of the national incentive for human development in 2005, by His Majesty Mohamed VI, a multiplication of community development projects has emerged, aiming at the appropriation of communication strategies for development. However, due to a lack of professionalism, most LDAs are locked into rigid management logics exacerbated by the reference frameworks of international institutions. As a result, LDAs neglect the communication dimension of the development project to focus solely on its technical aspects.

Product Evaluation in a Social Marketing and Community Development Context: A Case Study and Initial Report

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-104
Author(s):  
Anne Hill ◽  
Railton Hill ◽  
Susan Moore
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Social Marketing ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Product Evaluation ◽  
Service Evaluation ◽  
Initial Report ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Parental Confidence ◽  
Development Context

We provide an initial report and case study of product evaluation for social marketing undertaken specifically within a “community development” context. Starting Points is a highly differentiated not-for-profit development program targeting parents/caregivers of 0—4-year-olds. Parents/caregivers self select to participate in four highly interactive two-hour sessions, usually across a number of weeks, located within their own communities. The project was developed in Melbourne, Australia, and is being delivered in many communities across the nation. The service product evaluated is essentially the enhancement of parental confidence, achieved through parental/caregiver participation in the community-based programs which are initiated, marketed, and delivered by peer facilitators. The article locates such evaluation within the program evaluation and marketing audit literatures, describes the product evaluation component of the research design, and reports preliminary empirical results. These suggest that the Starting Points product is perceived both by participant parents and their partners as resulting in significant increases in parental confidence, sustained well past the immediate postparticipation period. These results provide one critical empirical element of a thorough service evaluation, itself a step toward a thorough-going social marketing auditing process.

Critical Reflections on the UNDESD: From the Perspectives of Informal Education in a Community Development Context

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-151
Author(s):  
Fumiko Noguchi
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Informal Education ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Sustainable Community Development ◽  
Development Context ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Transformative Approach

The UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005–2014) aimed to take a socially critical and transformative approach to ESD through all forms of education. Unfortunately, it mainly focused on formal education and overlooked the informal education that is embedded in the community development process of tackling unsustainable problems in real life, especially from the perspectives of marginalized people. Besides the political and economic pressures that cause the gap, current theorizing in ESD, which draws from critical theory, focuses predominantly on formal education or schooling contexts. It offers little guidance on appropriate pedagogical practice in community development. Theorizing informal education for sustainable community development is needed to support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, and decoloniality is a potential theoretical approach to this issue.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document