Community Sustainability through ComprehensiveCommunity Development

(5-7 Years)

The community sustainability phase emphasizes capacity transfer and social transformation through comprehensive community development. The core activities are:

Community Outreach/Civic Engagement: Doing constituent-led outreach to priority populations based on community goals and implementing a public education program on community empowerment and social change.

Infrastructure Development: Identifying leadership transition strategies and implementing capacity building programs to develop sustainable and accountable community-based institutions.

Relationship Building: Promoting higher levels of social organization through community development programs, mutual support networks, institutional diversity, and inter-agency partnerships/networks.

Community Development: Implementing physical/economic/social development programs, establishing service delivery networks, forming funding partnerships, and monitoring programs/projects.

Organizing and Advocacy: Doing community research, forming strategic alliances/regional partnerships, and implementing policy initiatives/campaigns that promote systemic institutional change with community accountability.

Community Research and Evaluation: Documenting program/project impacts, disseminating information about lessons learned and replicating programs.

Social Change Indicators:

• Civic Engagement
  
• Institutional Development & Organizational Effectiveness/ Accountability
  
• Cross-Cultural Partnerships/Networks
  
• Systems and Services
  
• Quality of Life Indices
  

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