Free Resources Recommended by the Community Development Exchange
Excerpted from the Community Development section of CDX’s 74-page Resource Briefing, to include only those publications that are available online for free. The Community Development Exchange is a membership-led organization which aims to bring about social justice and equality by using and promoting the values and approaches of community development. More free publications from CDX here.
2003 Home Office Citizenship Survey: People, Families and Communities
Home Office Research, Development & Statistics Directorate (December 2004)
Website: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs04/hors289.pdf
A Beginner’s Guide to Sustainable Communities
Improvement & Development Agency (July 2005)
This article examines the concept of the ‘sustainable community’, and asks how much of the debate is about hot air, and how much is about clean air and considers how much is about building civic empires rather than green environments?
Website: http://www.idea-knowledge.gov.uk/idk/core/page.do?pageId=919821
Building Community Cohesion into Area Based Initiatives: A guide for residents and practitioners
Neighbourhood Renewal Unit (2004)
This guide is for residents, community representatives and practitioners who are delivering regeneration programmes at the local level, in Area Based Initiatives (ABIs) and other regeneration areas.
Website: http://www.crimereduction.org.uk/activecommunities/activecommunities73.htm
CHOICE: Examples of Community Participation Methods in Europe
Paul Henderson (April 2003)
This publication from the Combined European Bureau for Social Development (CEBSD), explores how and why tools and techniques for participation seem to have become part of a common European culture. There is a powerful note of caution on how “they can be counter-productive to the very processes of empowerment and learning that are at the heart of community development”.
Website: www.cebsd.org/social_resource.htm
CommuniTIES
bassac (2005)
Communities is essential reading for anyone with a stake in creating positive social change in the UK. The publication unveils what, to date, has been the largely invisible impact of bassac members and other community-based organisations.
Website: www.bassac.org.uk/uploads/File/Communities(1).pdf
Community Engagement How To Guide
The Scottish Centre for Regeneration offer a useful online guide to those involved in community work.
Website: http://www.ce.communitiesscotland.gov.uk/stellent/groups/public/documents/webpages/scrcs_006693.hcsp
Facilitating Community Involvement: Practical Guidance for Practitioners and Policy Makers
Christine Sylvest Larsen (October 2004)
This paper provides practical guidance for practitioners and policy makers on how to get the community involved. It draws on the review ‘What works in community involvement in Area Based Initiatives (ABIs)’, which was commissioned by the Home Office to evaluate the impact of community involvement in ABIs.
Website: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs04/dpr27.pdf
Inside Out: Rethinking Inclusive Communities
Tom Bentley, Helen McCarthy, Melissa Mean (February 2003)
This report from think-tank Demos suggests that community-based organisations could be damaged by attempts to co-opt them as instruments of government policy.
Website: www.demos.co.uk/files/insideout.pdf
National Occupational Standards in Community Development Work
(October 2002)
The standards provide a tool for promoting and practising good quality community development learning and practice.
Website: http://www.cdx.org.uk/national-occupational-standards-nos-for-community-development-work
What Community Development Does. A short guide for decision makers to how it achieves results.
IACD Global
A guide from the International Association for Community Development (IACD).
What in the world…? Global lessons, inspirations and experiences in community development
(January 2007)
International Association of Community Development collected case studies and information on community development, to promote learning and exchange of experiences.
Website: www.iacdglobal.org/projects.htm
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