An Asset-based Approach to Community Development and Capacity Building
The global housing crisis, especially in the developing world, is getting worse by the day making the right to adequate shelter a quest that is becoming more and more difficult to meet, despite the targets set by the Millennium Development Goals.
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How do we build strong, resilient, sustainable communities? How can we make sure that the communities that we live in and work in are vibrant, innovative and full of life?
How can we ensure that our communities are just, fair, equitable and strong in the face of so much global change? Where do we start in our own communities to make a
difference, to make a change towards building the sorts of community we’d like to live in, raise our families in and grow old in?
Appreciating Assets
Building on What You Have Got
The Carnegie Commission for Rural Community Development recognised that the old deficit models of rural development have failed: that forcing rural communities to denigrate their area in order to win essential funding is perverse. Carnegie believes that there is an alternative approach that builds upon the things that a community has – an asset- based approach to rural community development.
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