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• Community action


  Any activity that amplifies understanding and empowerment
• When crafting community action


  • A goal or target must be set in mind
• United Nations Millennium Development Goals (2000-2015)


  • Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
  • Achieve universal primary education
  • Promote gender equality and empower women
  • Reduce child mortality
  • Improve maternal health
  • Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
  • Ensure environmental sustainability
  • Global partnership for development
• United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (2015-2030)


  • Zero Hunger
  • No Poverty
  • Good Health and Well-being
  • Quality Education
  • Gender Equality
  • Clean Water and Sanitation
  • Affordable and Clean energy
  • Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Reduced Inequalities
  • Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • Responsible Consumption and Production
  • Climate Action
  • Life Below Water
  • Life on Land
  • Peace, Justice and Strong Institution
  • Partnership for the Goals
• The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are integrated, they recognize that action in one area will affect outcomes in others, and that development must balance social, economic and environmental sustainability
• Transforming our Warld: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
• This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity, It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom
• We recognize that cradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, challenge and is the greatest global an indispensable requirement for sustainable development
• All countries and all stakeholders, acting in collaborative partnership, will implement this plan
• We are resolved to free the human race from the tyranny of poverty and want and to heal and secure our planet
• We are determined to take the bold and transformative steps which are urgently needed to shift the world onto a sustainable and resilient path
• As we embark on this collective journey, we pledge that no one will be left behind
• The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets which we are announcing today demonstrate the scale and ambition of this new universal Agenda
• They seek to build on the Millennium Development Goals and complete what these did not achieve
• They seek to realize the human rights of all and to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls
• They are integrated and indivisible and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development: the economic, social and environmental
• The Goals and targets will stimulate action over the next fifteen years in areas of critical importance for humanity and the planet

  • People
  • Planet
  • Prosperity
  • Peace
  • Partnership
• We are determined to mobilize the means required to implement this Agenda through a revitalized Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, based on a spirit of strengthened global solidarity, focused in particular on the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable and with the participation of all countries, all stakeholders and all people
• The interlinkages and integrated nature of the Sustainable Development Goals are of crucial importance in ensuring that the purpose of the new Agenda is realized
• If we realize our ambitions across the full extent of the Agenda, the lives of all will be profoundly improved and our world will be transformed
• Community development


  Interdisciplinary; needs more than just a linear knowledge of meaning but a holistic understanding of real-world problems, grounded solutions, and boundless ideas for inspired action
• Community Action


  A campaign undertaken by people living in a particular place; an action undertaken by members of the community for that community's own improvement
• Community Action Encompasses


  • Community Engagement
  • Community Solidarity
  • Citizenship Building
• Community Engagement


  • The process by which community benefits organizations and individuals build ongoing, permanent relationships for the purpose of applying a collective vision for the benefit of a community
• Core Principles of Community Engagement

  • Careful Planning and Preparation
  • Inclusion and Demographic Diversity
  • Collaboration and Shared Purpose
  • Openness and Learning
  • Transparency and Trust
  • Impact and Action
  • Sustained Engagement and Participatory Culture
• Community Solidarity


  • Mutual commitment to one another's well-being
• Core Principles of Community Solidarity

  • Dignity of the Human Person
  • the Common Goods
  • Subsidiary and Participation
  • Solidarity Regardless of Ideological Differences
  • Preferential Option for the Poor
  • Economic Justice
  • Stewardship of Creation
  • Promotion of Peace
• Citizenship Building


  Processes that can increase capacity of the citizens to respond intelligently to the changing environment around them
• Community Virtues


  • Resilient
  • Vigilant
  • Progressive
  • Adaptive
  • Accountable
• Resilient Communities


  • Ability of the community to get back on its feet after a calamity and continue with its existence; driven by the inherent drive to survive and live lives to their full potential; requires social cohesion and communal spirit
• Vigilant Communities


  • Sustained assessment of not just threats or danger but of progressive ideas and solutions; challenging the norms that are needed to be changed, altered, or developed further
• Progressive Communities


  • Forward thinking and foresight; challenging and having new ways of thinking; about action not reassessment; changing the status quo by anticipating future trends
• Adaptive Communities


  • Ability to face challenges and obstacles and make choices; not about waiting for the environment to take its course
• Accountable Communities


  • Ownership of identity and actions; taking ownership over everything in the community because it is part of our lives and we are subject to its fluxes and changes
• Five Point Community Initiatives

  • Engagement
  • Planning
  • Implementation
  • Development
  • Sustainability
• Community engagement, solidarity, and citizenship


  The core values and principles of community action initiatives
• Topics


  • Human Rights
  • Social Justice
  • Empowerment & Advocacy
  • Participatory Development
  • Gender Equality
• Community action


  A broad range of activities sometimes described as social action, involving greater engagement of local citizens in the planning, design, delivery of local services
• Objectives of community action


  • Building community and social capacity
  • Community resilience
  • Prevention
  • Maintaining and creating wealth
• Building community and social capacity

  • Helping the community to share knowledge, skills, and ideas