"The United Nations defines community development as 'a process where community members come together to take collective action and generate solutions to common problems.'"
Collaborating with diverse groups and organizations to achieve common goals related to social justice, such as policy change or community development.
Understanding the importance of coalition building: This involves an overview of what coalition building means and why it is essential in policy and advocacy social work.
Identifying and recruiting partners: This topic covers how to identify potential partners and how to recruit them to join the coalition.
Developing a coalition structure: This involves creating a structure for the coalition, outlining roles and responsibilities, and setting up processes for decision-making.
Defining coalition goals: This involves defining the coalition's goals and objectives, including identifying specific policy changes that the coalition is working to achieve.
Building relationships and trust: This topic focuses on building relationships between coalition members and fostering trust so that members can work together effectively.
Creating a shared vision: This involves creating a shared vision for the coalition and identifying areas where members share common goals.
Engaging community members: This involves engaging community members in the coalition's work, including advocacy efforts, community awareness campaigns, and outreach efforts.
Developing and implementing strategic plans: This topic covers how to develop and implement a strategic plan for the coalition, including strategies for achieving the coalition's goals and objectives.
Communication and messaging: This topic covers communication strategies within the coalition, as well as strategies for communicating with external stakeholders, including policymakers and the media.
Evaluation and measurement: This involves measuring the effectiveness of the coalition's efforts and using data to improve advocacy and outreach efforts.
Sustainability: This topic covers how to ensure the coalition's sustainability over time, including strategies for fundraising and maintaining partnerships.
Overcoming challenges and obstacles: This involves identifying potential challenges and obstacles to coalition building and developing strategies to overcome them.
Grassroots coalition building: This involves organizing individuals and groups in a community to support a particular policy or social justice issue.
Professional coalition building: This involves building networks of professionals and organizations to advocate on behalf of a particular issue or group.
Issue-based coalition building: This involves creating coalitions around specific policy issues such as healthcare, education, or civil rights.
Collaborative coalition building: This involves building partnerships between organizations and agencies to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Multi-issue coalition building: This involves forming coalitions around multiple issues or policy areas to create a more comprehensive approach to social change.
Electoral coalition building: This involves creating partnerships in support of a particular candidate or political party.
Youth coalition building: This involves empowering young people to advocate for issues affecting their generation.
Faith-based coalition building: This involves building partnerships with faith-based organizations to advance social justice causes.
Gender-based coalition building: This involves building coalitions around issues of gender equality and equity.
Community-based coalition building: This involves building partnerships with community organizations and residents to address community-specific issues and concerns.
"Typically aiming to build stronger and more resilient local communities."
"Community development is defined by the International Association for Community Development as 'a practice-based profession and an academic discipline that promotes participative democracy, sustainable development, rights, economic opportunity, equality and social justice.'"
"The key elements of community development include the organisation, education, and empowerment of people within their communities."
"Community development seeks to empower individuals and groups of people with the skills they need to effect change within their communities."
"These skills are often created through the formation of social groups working for a common agenda."
"Community development as a term has taken off widely in anglophone countries, i.e. the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, as well as other countries in the Commonwealth of Nations."
"The Community Development Journal, published by Oxford University Press, since 1966 has aimed to be the major forum for research and dissemination of international community development theory and practice.Community development approaches are recognised internationally. These methods and approaches have been acknowledged as significant for local social, economic, cultural, environmental and political development by such organisations as the UN, WHO, OECD, World Bank, Council of Europe and EU."
"These methods and approaches have been acknowledged as significant for local social, economic, cultural, environmental and political development by such organisations as the UN, WHO, OECD, World Bank, Council of Europe and EU."
"There are a number of institutions of higher education that offer community development as an area of study and research such as the University of Toronto, Leiden University, SOAS University of London, and the Balsillie School of International Affairs, among others."