Knowledge partnering for community development / Robyn Eversole.
Publication details: London : Routledge, 2015.Description: xi, 181 pages: illustrations; 23 cmISBN:- 9781138025622
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Eversole, R. (2015). Knowledge partnering for community development. London : Routledge.
Introduction -- Communities and development -- Comminities as change agents -- Place-based development and partnerships -- The changing face of community development practice -- Why knowledge partnering -- Reading this book -- Developing communities -- The idea of development -- The practice of development -- A place-based lens -- The role of communities -- Community deficits and community assets -- Unanswered questions for community development practice -- Further reading -- Practical application: local economic development methods -- Practical application: asset-based community development -- Development methods and measures -- Doing development -- Development policy trends -- Economic development methods and measures -- Social development methods and measures -- Multidimensional development methods and measures -- Persisting tensions in policy and practice -- Further reading -- Practical application: community accounts -- Participating in development -- Participating: a paradigm shift? -- Seeing community capacity -- Participation methods and measures -- Participation and social inclusion -- Participation critiques -- The limits of participation -- Further reading -- Practical application: participatory rural appraisal (PRA) -- Practical application: multistakeholder workshops -- The lure and limits of partnerships -- Partnerships for development -- Partnership in theory -- Partnership in practice -- Partnerships and power -- Partnerships analysis framework -- Rethinking community partnerships -- Further reading -- Practical application: partnership assessment tools -- Knowledge for development -- Knowledge for local development -- Abstract knowledge and local knowledge -- Unpacking local knowledge -- From local knowledge to innovation -- Knowledge partnering -- Further reading -- Practical application: farmers' participatory research -- Knowledge partnerships in practice -- Case studies of innovative practice -- Microfinance: small change, big change -- Community-based learning: knowing places -- Social enterprises: valuable business -- Bringing knowledges together -- Further reading -- Practical application: village banking -- Practical application: community study circles -- Practical application: intermediate labor market organizations -- The innovative practitioner -- A new framework for development practice -- Development as a social process -- The practitioner as partnership broker -- Communities and their knowledge -- Innovation in development practice -- Further reading -- Practical application: development immersions -- The knowledge partnering approach -- A methodology for development practice -- Principles of knowledge partnering -- Knowledge partnering and the community practitioner -- Further reading -- Practical application: intervention mapping -- Conclusion: Future directions for community development practice -- A new kind of development practice -- From the grassroots to the landscape -- From engagement to knowledge partnerships -- Twin agendas: innovation and inclusion
Effective community development means that many different stakeholders have to work together: governments, development organizations and NGOs, and most importantly, the people they serve. Knowledge Partnering for Community Development teaches community development professionals how to mediate community needs and development agendas to make community-based solutions for development challenges. Based on the newest research in community and global development, Eversole shows readers a strong research and theoretically based framework for understanding local development processes, and gives them the skills to turn this into cutting-edge practice. Each chapter features global case studies of innovative community-state partnerships, and practical application exercises and strategies for professionals looking to bring new approaches to their research. Knowledge Partnering for Community Development is essential for community workers and students of community development looking to bridge the gap between research insight and best practice between community actors.
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