New reviews of Asset Based Community Development
Asset Based Rural Community Development has emerged globally as a rejection of deficit regeneration models, where communities have to demonstrate all the things they lack in order to win resources. A community that inquires into problems will keep finding problems. A community that attempts to appreciate what is best in itself will discover assets. Asset Based Rural Community Development takes as its starting point these existing assets, particularly the strengths inherent in community based associations and social networks, and mobilises these, alongside tangible assets such as land and buildings, to create new economic and social opportunities.
Carnegie UK Trust commissioned the International Association for Community Development (IACD) to undertake a literature review and to collect case studies of Asset Based Rural Community Development as it is used in different contexts around the world Forum for the Future was commissioned to undertake a parallel review in the UK and Irish context, examining in particular those approaches that can be used at both a local and a strategic level.
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