This article considers what lessons the debate on community development can offer the new global development framework. First, we analyse existing attempts to include ‘voices’ from the local level in ...

Community development, under different "names" and approaches, is practised worldwide, and many are primarily focussed on "imposing" their own pre-scheduled plan, strategies and activities upon ...

The City of Humboldt and George Gordon First Nation have announced their participation in the Community Economic Development ...

Barry Percy-Smith, From Consultation to Social Learning in Community Participation with Young People, Children, Youth and Environments, Vol. 16, No. 2, Pushing the Boundaries: Critical International ...

The downfall of citizen participation is that it requires a commitment from all development stakeholders to come to fruition. It has to be well resourced in order to be carried out effectively.

The Guide is a summary of the 2010 publication “Youth Participation in Development – A Guide for Development Agencies and Policy Makers”, developed by the UK Department for International ...

The United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) emerged from Agenda 21, the programme of action for sustainable development adopted in June 1992 at the United Nations Conference on ...

There are 1.8 billion people between the ages of 10 and 24 today, making this the largest generation of young people in human history. (1, 2, 3) Characterized as the healthiest and most educated ...

It is vital that it re-articulates participation and citizenship as concepts that give these community actors the leading role. The challenge lies in each actor within the value chain of health ...