Knowledge Partnering for Community Development (Community Development Research and Practice Series)

Effective community development means that many different stakeholders have to work together: governments, development organizations and NGOs, and most importantly, the people they serve. Knowledge Partnering for Community Development teaches community development professionals how to mediate community needs and development agendas to make community-based solutions for development challenges.

Based on the newest research in community and global development, Eversole shows readers a strong research and theoretically based framework for understanding local development processes, and gives them the skills to turn this into cutting-edge practice. Each chapter features global case studies of innovative community-state partnerships, and practical application exercises and strategies for professionals looking to bring new approaches to their research. Knowledge Partnering for Community Development is essential for community workers and students of community development looking to bridge the gap between research insight and best practice between community actors.

The director of the Institute for Regional Development (IRD) at the University of Tasmania, Australia. She is an anthropologist of development who has worked extensively with local communities and organizations in Australia and Latin America on a wide range of development issues over the past eighteen years. She is author of more than fifty scholarly and practice-focused articles on community and regional development issues as well as three edited collections including Here to Help: NGOs Combating Poverty in Latin America (2003) and Indigenous Peoples and Poverty in International Perspective (2005).