Community Development
Communities differ. They can invent their own recipe for success and learn from others, yet they can’t copy solutions from other places. Development has to be localized and contextualized, and the way forward has to be agreed upon and defined in the community itself. What counts as an asset can shift quickly and taking care of things is a good insurance policy against later headaches, later realizations that assets just disappeared. Development is not necessarily growth, and quantity in assets is not necessarily quality.
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