Community Development in Practice

Documents

On this page: Introductions to CD - overviews and manifestos -community engagement - capacity building - skills and learning for practitioners - examples from practice

Introductions to Community Development

CDAS pamhlet 'What Community Development Does: A short guide for decision makers to how it achieves results'. Click for more information and download.

Two useful leaflets from the Community Development Exchange: ‘What is Community Development’‘   and 'Community development in action’

Overviews and manifestos

Papers from CDAS seminar"Building the Agenda for Change" See Past Events

A Community Development Manifesto for Scotland Produced by the Scottish Community Development Network, January 2007

The Community Development Challenge Produced in 2006 by UK organisations including the Community Development Foundation and the Community Development Exchange for the Departmenty of Communities and Local Government, this document provides one of the clearest and most compelling accounts of the importance of community development now

The Budapest Declaration A statement on Community Development from the Budapest Conference in March 2004, attended by 130 community development workres, policy makers, researchers, donors and representatives from government from around Europe.

The Budapest Declaration – A Scottish Perspective Key Points from the Community Development Theory and Research Workshop

Community Engagement

National Standards for Community Engagement

First published in 2004 after an extensive consultation process, the National Standards for Community Engagement are now referred to and, we hope, put into practice in many situations around Scotland

A wide range of supporting material for the Standards is now available

Role of Community Councils

Article from the Scotsman, provided by CDAS member organisation Association of Scottish Community Councils.,

Capacity Building

Resource Guide

A guide to resources on Community Capacity Building, complied by the Scottush Community Development Centre for the Scottish Government - contains links to many practical tools and overviews.

CLDMS Position Statement

Community Learning and Development Managers Scotland's Position Statement on Community Capacity Building, updated April 2010, aims to contribute to a shared understanding of, and increased focus on, Community Capacity Building and its contribution to wider agendas, in particular, Community Empowerment, Community Engagement and Community Planning.

Building Community Capacity through Community Learning and Development

Summary of the key findings of a report to Learning Connections, and their response

Firm foundations

This report brings to a conclusion a major review and consultation process focusing on UK Government support for community capacity building, that is to say programmes and activities which enable people to take a more active part in their communities, and the policies that affect them.

Skills and learning for practitioners

Better Community Engagement - a framework for learning

January 2007 report, prepared for Learning Connections by SCDC. The report aims to support learning for community engagement; it offers a framework for curriculum development, provides guidance on using the framework, and suggests the elements of a strategy for improving skills and practice in community engagement.

Communitylearning and development training for professionals engaged in community regeneration and community planning

This Summary and Report of a research study explore the learning needs of a wide range of professionals as they seek to develop more participatory ways of planning and delivering services.

The conclusions of the study link closely with Creating a learning landscape: A skills framework for community regeneration, developed by the Scottish Centre for Regneration.

Research Study Summary

Full Report (763KB)

Skills Framework for Community Regeneration

Examples from practice

Illuminating Practice

Case studies of Community Learning and Development work in Scotland

Where in the World?

Case studies of community development around the world, from IACD

  THE ROLE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT in the Delivery of Community Development – A Case Study from Dundee (1.5Mb)

Paper given by Stewart Murdoch to IACD Conference, Hong Kong, 2007

Changing Lives (2.1Mb)

Case studies of community-led health improvement work in Scotland