Cork City’s Local Economic and Community Plan 2024 - 2029
Local community development can help to build a sense of community by connecting people together and collaborating on local projects and groups. It is a powerful tool to empower communities, promote civic engagement and build social inclusion.
Find out about our community development work on the Cork City Council community page: www.corkcity.ie/en/council-services/ services/community/
What is Community Development? by Viv Sadd, Project Coordinator, Mahon Community Development Project
It involves providing participation opportunities through local programmes, training and projects where people can build self-esteem, confidence, trust and capacity. This ‘bottom up’ approach to capacity building strengthens and connects the community. Individuals connect and are empowered, and a local and wider collective and collaborative partnership approach between groups and agencies is developed. This whole process is underpinned with the principles of empowerment, equality, and social inclusion.”
“It is about people, their neighbourhood, and their community. It is a process where people come together to take actions on what is important to them.” “At a foundation level community development is getting to know the people, who they are and what they need and want, and getting to know the local resources and facilities, what is there and what is missing and what is needed. It is about developing a shared vision, an action plan and making it happen.
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