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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on March 11, 2005
Community Development Journal 2006 41(1):4-12; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsi038
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Using a ‘domains’ approach to build community empowerment

Glenn Laverack

A freelance consultant based in York, UK, with eighteen years of community development experience in Africa, Asia and the Pacific regions

Address for correspondence: c/o University of Auckland, School of Population Health, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand. grlavera{at}hotmail.com

This paper provides two case study examples of how community empowerment can be better conceptualized, planned and applied within a programme context by using a ‘domains’ approach. What is new about this approach is that it does not start with a blank slate onto which participants inscribe their own problems or needs but provides a predetermined focus through each of nine ‘empowerment domains’: Improves participation; Develops local leadership; Increases problem assessment capacities; Enhances the ability to ‘ask why’; Builds empowering organizational structures; Improves resource mobilization; Strengthens links to other organizations and people; Creates an equitable relationship with outside agents; and Increases control over programme management. The importance to community development practice is that the approach provides a more systematic means for community empowerment in a programme context.


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