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"Kerala, India's Campaign for Democratic Decentralization is surely one of the world's boldest experiments in instituting participatory democracy. For the last several decades, the state has used democratic centralist methods to institute bold programs in education, health care, and other public sectors. These programs have resulted in extremely high literacy rates and health outcomes for Keralans despite relatively low growth and high poverty."
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Keywords:
promoting civic participation, consensus-building, stakeholder, activism, project identification, input, decision-making, community welfare, fostering, community empowerment, capacity building, self-reliance, community independence, sustainable community empowerment, community problem-solving, community organizing, participatory, community led, popular base, community power, grassroots organizing, coalition building, civil disobedience, direct action, community mapping
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Featured Resources
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 The Community Tool Box provides over 6,000 pages of practical skill-building information on over 250 different topics.
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Making community participation meaningful:
A handbook for development and assessment provides practitioners, community activists, regeneration managers, teachers and academics with the tools needed to ensure that community participation is effective. |
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Featured Organizations
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International Association for Community Development is the main international membership organisation for those working in or supporting community development and is open to both individuals and organisations. Members include individuals and organisations across our eight global regions.
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Association for Network for Community Empowerment (Pakistan) aspires to create a just society, based on the principles of mutual respect, support, and totally devoid of all kinds of discrimmination on the basis of caste religion, gender, or any other social or political identities. ANCE identifies needs of the respective areas, prepares plans ensuring community participation and designs sustainable projects for communities to operate on their own. |
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