Community Development: Analysis of Australian and International Cases

This report delves into the multifaceted realm of community development, presenting a comprehensive analysis of its core principles and practical applications. The report employs a case study approach, examining community development initiatives in both Australian and international cont...Read More

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Community Development: Brief Outline
The interest in the community development program lies in the fact that there is a
particular interest that rises among the people and the different sectors of the community. There
is a huge difference between the community development program and the capacity building
measures of the community. Principles and values form the basic component of the community
development initiative. It includes various programs like the improvement in the quality of living
of the people residing in the community, the appreciating and the encouragement that is given to
support the various cultural differences that exist among the good Stewarts of the wildlife, land
and the water resources. The most common elements of the community development program
lies in the attributes like the commitment to the empowerment of the individuals, the social
justice that is implemented in the society with balanced level of the social inclusion patterns
(Edwards & Jones 2019).
Significant Terms
The term ‘community’ has very subjective outlook in relation to the individuals who are
bounded by a fixed and particular geographical territory. There are various normalizing
conceptualizations of the contributing myths that gives rise to the concept of the community
where a community will be viewed as the natural and the desirable subject of the discussion. In
addition to this, the communities will arbitrarily be defined as the various facets of the political
agenda. In the older days, the individualism concept that has arose in the Western regions will
incorporate the unregimented bindings within the framework of the community (Ledwith 2020).
The term development has wider connotations. It is the most elusive concept that will be
generally accepted as the basic factor that will contribute to the improvement of the various

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people’s lives. The various research has suggested that there are excessive and the unutilized use
of the concept of development that will result in the various forms of the social constructions,
that will render the development factors that are quite natural and desirable (Cotsakis 2017).
Case Studies
Case Study #1
The first case study is based upon the health and the wellbeing of the aboriginal people of
Australia. The statistics and the health status of the aboriginal people of Australia depict serious
form of the inequalities that exist between the indigenous and the aboriginal Australians. In the
year 2001, it was roughly estimated that 34 percent of the between the 10 to 15 years are in the
remand centers and they were the indigenous Australians. As various programs were designed in
referring= to the indigenous community there will be an expectation of the various things that
will be delivered that will make the various community works opposed to each other and that
will come with the various particular values that will drive the individual communities in the
different sectors. The Aboriginals in Australia have also suffered from the problems of the
repetitive form of the domestic violence practices inflicted upon them and the trouble of teaching
them the adequate knowledge and responsibility towards their country.
Case Study #2
The second case study deals with the community development initiatives of Camden in
New Jersy. As a highly distressed form of the city Camden for a long time has been
characterized by the absence of the strong and the effective community organizations. These
organizations will work forward towards the attainment of the basic goals and not just to achieve
the long term improvement strategies for ensuring the quality of life for the people living in

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Camden. In the particular case study of Camden we can talk about the various measures of the
institutional capacity framework that still exists to resist rather than to promote the measures and
the ways of the community development in this particular region. In Camden along with agency
being a significant factor to the community development measures there also have been
significant barriers to the promotion of the community agency patterns that take place in Camden
for the community dwellers. The disillusionment along with the levels of municipal corruption
will contribute to the disengagement ratios from the political sphere in Camden.
Discussion
The quality that is ensured in the interacting variables that will be considered in the
community development project identifies the various fundamental and the significant
dimensions of the community development project. The development of the community will
depend on the various attributes like the needs and the values that are enshrined in the
community set up. It also includes the social aspects, the political factors, the cultural and the
environmental and the survival development strategies. Thus the approach of the community
development approach will foster the required levels of the sustainability in the community for
fostering its development. The community development programs also includes the mechanistic
form of the development that will assume the universal primacy approach of the capitalistic form
of the ideologies. The economic rate of the development often suffers from the spillover effect to
the other elements responsible for the development of the overall community (Ledwith, 2020).
Development status
The development status in the community development approach is characterized by the
reminiscent form of the mechanistic development approach that will assume the universal

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primacy rights of the capitalistic ideology. A significant concern in the development of the
community is the presence of the inequalities of various kinds. The inequalities are in the form of
the various social and the economic inequalities that exist within the natural boundaries of the
community settings. Mainly the affected rural areas within a community framework along with
the disparities result in the wider form of the intra national inequalities. The vulnerable
communities of a particular region will indicate the need of the various people specially the
social workers for their creative ideas that will result in their community based actions in order to
advocate the sustainable form of the development on behalf of the people residing in the
community (Gilchrist, 2019).
Interrelation
The various humans residing in a single community are always dependent on each other
and the environment in totality for the basic survival needs of their life. This concept will
contend the interdependence that is deemed as the essential factor for the Community
Development initiatives that are essential for the Community Development initiatives. The
presence of interdependence in the community framework will stand against the basic concepts
of the neo liberalism that highlights the significance of the principles and the factors. The
community development program works as the settler of the interdependence program for
strengthening the structure of the community framework. The cooperative framework will be
built upon the various superficial factors that will provide the basic framework to the superficial
form of the interdependent relationship that will be initiated by the economic development of the
concerned countries. The interdependence factors will demonstrate the notion of the life and the
factors that will enhance the externalities that rises from the neoliberalism factor (Cotsakis,
2017).

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Inherent Demerits
The nature of the relationships that have been explained above directly reflects the
different forms of the divergent outcomes of the program of the community development in
regards to the inherent demerits in the program. The community development program also
demonstrates the various empowered actors that will pose the most challenging factors of the
structural power by steering out their individual political agenda. The Community Development
program also addresses the various structural demerits that will stand through the different
community workshops by involving the different networking within and between the various
communities. The tension that exists between the various processes and the outcome is the major
issue in the community work. There is a particular pragmatic form of the approach that will
emphasize more on the outcome of the community development project. Rather than the
outcomes, it is therefore very significant to stress on the vision of the development goals which
will possess the less specific idea of the outcome of the less process oriented concerns (Asu &
Clendening, 2016).
Empowerment
There is a sharp difference between the empowerment and the total empowerment
patterns. The empowerment technique will require the transference of the various skills, the
different sets of the knowledge of the various resources and the other opportunities that will
allow the different individuals to actively determine their future strategies and that of the
community in general. There are various assertions of the community development program that
will be characterized by the various arena of the different communities in order to learn about the
different approaches of the business based opportunities that will be helpful in the empowerment
of the community. However the assistance in the implementation patterns will extend to the

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various characteristics that will also include the provision of the various people with the
available tools that will help them to recognize the their social welfare mechanisms that will
challenge the norms of the local gender approach by initiating the dialogue among the several
village men (Edwards & Jones, 2019).
Definition of the Need
The needs definition includes the broader ambit of the empowerment that takes place in
the community that includes the several individual actors who will be provided with the freedom
in order to enable them to define their own needs within their framework of the individual life
view. The assets based approach will be fostered through the various community development
initiatives that will be thoroughly assisted through the entire process. There have been very few
attempts to address the problem holistically. The federal governmental structure and the
associated state governments will be provided with the adequate level of the financial assistance
that will be crucial for both the individual as well as the families residing within a particular
community structure. The strengthening of the various communities will lie in the domain of the
traditional community framework and their associated development initiatives (Duniam &
Eversole,2016).
Significance of Local skills, resources and shared knowledge
The resilience level is fostered by the different communities and their framework in order
to make the individuals able to utilize their own skills, knowledge and the associated resources
that will insure themselves against the various levels of the uncertainty and the crisis faced by the
different individuals. The external knowledge in this context becomes limited due to the
consciousness and the other raising issues that will afford a particular communication network.

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The women have also lacked the adequate confidence to show their ability to address a particular
situation. The process of PAR has elicited the validation of the personal skills that will be
capable of the alleviation of the issue of the women. On an additional note the process of the
incorporation measures that will ascend the learning objectives of the indigenous value of the
knowledge level. The organizational knowledge will lean towards the different homogenous
frameworks with the vary the indigenous value of the various shared of knowledge of the people
(Fortunato & Alter, 2015).
Vision, Process and Outcome
The outcome based approach has been significant for the community development
measures that will be placed with a particular vision which will determine the process of life. In
this particular way the goals and visions that will be linked to the mutually reinforcing technical
aspects of the liberal and their globalization patterns by the neoliberalism with the subsequent
deconstruction of the welfare mechanisms of the. The explicit vision technique is however absent
from the various volatile conditions that will be influenced by the neoliberalism patterns that will
be characterized by the various individuals and their self-determination measures of the
individuals and the communities to achieve the specific goals. The participation rate will be
somewhat passive along with the various communities that will be largely absent from the
process. This will clearly demonstrate the casual link that will foster the outcome of the process
(Kickett-Tucker et.al 2018).
Interrelationship and dialogue
The dialogue will suggest that the exchange of the various information and the ideas of
the opportunities that will be afforded by the various actors to learn from the various individuals.

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The specific principle will recognize the wisdom and the experience of the various humans , that
the levels of the knowledge of the various synergies of the of the various stakeholders that will
include the various researchers that will weave the cooperative, the different leaders of the
village and the local officials of the government along with the administrative sectors. The local
health professionals and the village community levels that will ensure the respect and the
cooperation that will ensure the communication of the various hierarchical which will undermine
the expertise of the various community members that will ensure the knowledge of the traditional
power holders The dialogue and the relationship of the focus of the various partnerships within
the economic extensions of the community development programs. The political cooperation
technique was achieved by the specific consensus for the identification of the need and
aspirations of the actions of the addition to increase to the confidence that will raise the issues
with the government officials (Cotsakis 2017).
Cooperation and the consensus
The community development measures will seek the restructuring of the society and the
institutions that turned away the competition and the conflict of life. That will result in the
society and the institutions that will reflect the restructuring of the various societies. The research
will however suggest the noneconomic aspects. The social cooperation measures will be
achieved by the more level of care and the concerns that will be important for the reinforcing of
the social welfare system of the community set up. Finally the various action plans that will be
employed by the culturally useful concepts of the various resources in order to address the
different enterprises of the competitiveness of the economic structures (Duniam & Eversole
2016).

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Interrelationship between the global and the local bodies
The impacts of the globalization will have a negative impact on the different
communities. However the measures of the globalization and the use of the various technologies
will counter the hegemonic conceptualizations of the social of the community development
initiatives of the different people (Edwards & Jones 2019).
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