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Title: Empowerment in Community Development.
Description: Community Development main objective is to improve the quality of life in our communities, and help people to reach to their full potential.

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Empowerment in Community Development

Many times we may ask ourselves what is Community Development? But before that we
need to define community which is the collection of people or individuals living in the
same geographic area and share the same interest and culture most of the time
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Other will probable say that is new infrastructure,
roads, schools, airports, hospitals, parks and many others
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It is important to understand that community development has evolve into many other
discipline such as sociology, economics, political science, planning, geography just to
mention a few, but in this reflection journal we are going to focus on the relation between
community development, and economic development
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In our
foundation of community based research course we have learn that they are four methods
that every community organizer, or community leader must apply to solve the problems
in the community, these are: Evaluate, Diagnose, Prescribe, and Implement
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Community development should be considered as a process and an outcome, so a
working definition of community development can be a process developing and
enhancing the ability to act collectively, and an outcome taking collective action and the
result of that action for improvement in a community in aspects such as physical,
environmental, cultural, social, political, economical, etc
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We must put social capital in a way that it can work effectively to develop
and sustain strong relationships, solve problems and make group decisions, collaborate to
the plan, set goals, and get things done
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Title: Empowerment in Community Development.
Description: Community Development main objective is to improve the quality of life in our communities, and help people to reach to their full potential.