Community Development

A definition

Community Development is the process of building the participation and capacity of local people, working together with other identified communities in inter-community and inter-regional cooperation to identify and work toward principled solutions with a unified mission to enhance the short and long-term social, economic and environmental conditions of their communities.

Related concepts

• Community Enterprise

• Community Participation

• Community Planning

• Community Resources

• Community Service

• Community Training

• Dialogue, Deliberation and Consensus Building

• Leadership Training

Some practices and movements

• LETS

• Transition Towns

Resources

• The Community Tool Box

Thanks to WiserEarth and its community for allowing us to use its taxonomy to seed this article with a definition.