Community Development Assignment
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Community Development Assignment
Added on 2021-05-31
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Running head: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTCommunity Engagement: Building Strengths and CapabilitiesName of the Student:Name of the University:Author’s Note:
2COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTTable of ContentsSocial innovation and community engagement theory....................................................................4Social Innovation.............................................................................................................................5SWOT and PESTLE........................................................................................................................6Possible funding and ethical implications....................................................................................9Challenges for implementation........................................................................................................9Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
3COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTExecutive SummaryCommunity engagement refers to the involvement of the people of the community for helpingthe challenged or the helpless sections of the society. In other words, it is the means by whichpeople try to help the vulnerable sections of the society who are poor and needy (Chapman et al.2016). Some of the vulnerable sections of the society are the disabled people, the poverty-stricken people, the old and aging people and many other such parts of the society (Cornia 2018).However, this effort can be successful only if there is the proper involvement of the larger andgreater sections of people. The number of people extends their helping hands; the better resultswill be obtained. The purpose of this report was to deal with concepts of community engagementand assess the role of the social innovation in the same. It mainly dealt with one of the comm.Unity organizations of Australia that are known as the Poverty on Action. As the very namesuggests, it aims at eradicating the poverty and support the poverty-stricken people to becomeself-sufficient. This report also talks about the social innovation theory that can be applied tomaking this organization a great success at the local and the global level (Saunders 2018).
4COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTSocial innovation and community engagement theory Community engagement theory is a theory that talks about the way the residents or thepeople of a certain organization takes part in the welfare of any vulnerable part of the society. Inother words, it is an initiative taken by the people of the community to extend their helping handsfor taking care of some of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged sections of the society. Thereis actually no clear definition of this theory but it can be termed as an endeavor that is taken upby the people of the society to make sure that they are being able to help out the ones that are indanger. Some of the examples of the disadvantaged or he challenged sections of the society arethe poverty-stricken people, the refugees, the victims of some of the other natural disasters andmany other such sections of the community (Voorberg, Bekkers and Tummers 2015). In otherwords, there have to be joint efforts given by all the people of the society so that the workbecomes much more exciting. There has to be a joint effort by all the members so that there canbe a lot more innovative ideas (Sam 2016). If more people are joining in then it is an obvious factthat all the people will be able to give many new and innovative ideas. One of the major aspects of this community engagement is the connection. However, inthis context, it is important to note that the people who are taking part in this collaborative effortfor the community engagement may or may not be connected to each other by the geographiclocation or by any other kinds of interests. They are not really concerned about all this issue; theonly thing that these volunteers are concerned about is promoting the overall welfare of theorganization. The shift or the transmission of the word from the community to engagement isalso a shift in the concept (Abbott et al., 2018). This is actually taking the concern of peoplefrom the individual level to the collective level. In other words, this initiative can succeed with
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