Browsing by Study Area "Community Development"
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Achieving gender equality in diasaster management : a case study of integrating women into community groups in Indonesia
(Unitec ePress, 2017-12-13)The recent international commitment to the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) continues to recognise the need for the international development community to focus on achieving gender equality on a ... -
Auckland inner-city residents’ experiences and expressions of community connectedness
(Unitec ePress, 2015-11-27)The concept of community connectedness has become increasingly important in inner-city residential development planning as high-‐rise apartment living becomes consolidated in inner cities. The distinct nature of the built ... -
Avondale creative spaces : a case study in community building for social change
(Unitec ePress, 2016-05-02)This case study outlines the process, delivery and outcomes of a series of public artwork initiatives undertaken through a partnership between Unitec Institute of Technology research group, the everyday collective laboratory ... -
Bridging the digital divide: Students’ access to digital technologies in a language department
(Southern Institute of Technology, 2010-01-01)In many institutions in New Zealand from primary to tertiary level, the use of technology by both students and teachers to support learning and teaching is assumed. This article reports briefly on research done in a New ... -
Carbon trading, oil extraction and ‘different’ forms of community development in Uganda
(Unitec ePress, 2017-09-11)Originally presented at the ACDA–IACD Conference, February 2017. In reflecting upon the work my colleague Dr Kristen Lyons and I have been doing in Uganda for a number of years, there are two case studies that, when ... -
The causes of poverty
(Auckland District Council of Social Service, 2015-03)The recent debate on poverty in New Zealand presents a number of arguments, manifestations, causes and solutions. Many see the root causes in the neo-liberal polices since the mid 1980s, policies that resulted in the ... -
Change and development in Glen Eden 2017: report to Waitakere Ranges Local Board
(Unitec ePress, 2020-02-24)This paper has been expanded from the report previously published by ePress on 13.11.2017 [https://hdl.handle.net/10652/3981] This is a report on change and development issues facing Glen Eden. The Waitakere Ranges Local ... -
Change and development in Glen Eden, 2017. Report commissioned by Waitakere Ranges Local Board.
(Unitec ePress, 2017-11-13)This report is stage one of a report on change and development issues in Glen Eden. The Waitakere Ranges Local Board commissioned staff of the Social Practice Department of Unitec ... -
A changing face for island festivals: A case study from Waiheke Island
(2019)"Islandness" Island communicative ecology Festival features Benefits - constraints Waiheke snapshot Waiheke Island festival categories Waiheke Island festivals - benefits 3 case studies Island restival reclamation Scult ... -
The changing face of local egovernment in New Zealand
(2010)In New Zealand, there is a national digital strategy with targets for 2010 in place set by the State Services Commission. In this paper, the extent to which e-participation targets have been met by local governments in ... -
Churches in the clouds: Running a Pacific Island church online
(2021-12)When the church started using the website and the zoom platform as their new church in the clouds (fale lotu he ope) the comment was made by the leading minister that this new church in the clouds is symbolic of the reality ... -
Community development : hope for Uganda
(Unitec ePress, 2018-08-11)In January 2018 I was privileged to visit Uganda, hosted by Tony Ssembatya who is a board member for the International Association for Community Development (IACD). Tony is from Uganda, but currently works for UN Women in ... -
Community development : what’s in a name! Guest editorial
(Unitec ePress, 2016-05-02)“Community development is the crucible of democracy, the place where citizens come together to share their dreams and plan their common futures.” When I began back in the department we talked about the fact that – ... -
Community development and the ‘policy governance’ approach : have we voted out democracy?
(Unitec ePress, 2015-11-27)We argue that the ways community organisations are typically structured, with a Board, Chief Executive (CE) and workers, creates an inherently anti-‐democratic dynamic. We suggest that the hierarchical concentration of ... -
Community development in a fractured future
(Unitec ePress, 2020-12-17)This article explores the implications for community development in a near-term future context of some degree of ecological and societal collapse. The extreme likelihood of near-term future collapse is well known to most ... -
Community development in Aotearoa New Zealand: a historical journey
(Unitec ePress, 2016-10-27)In this article we seek to describe the key periods and influences of community development practice in Aotearoa New Zealand. Our historical journey gives particular consideration to the specific impacts the government’s ... -
Community development in local food solutions
(Unitec ePress, 2017-12-13)Food security and food provenance are becoming topical issues in a globalised food market and a climate-insecure world. New forms of accessing food are emerging and forgotten forms being rediscovered, disrupting increasingly ... -
Community development with Japanese settlers in Aotearoa New Zealand : the story of a Japanese interdisciplinary network group in Auckland. Japanese Interagency Group
(Unitec ePress, 2015-05-01)Over the past five years increased attention from Not-for-Profit-Organisations (NPOs) that support new Japanese settlers in Auckland suggests concern about resettlement needs, health inequality and social exclusion among ... -
Community Leadership as Learning
(International Association of Community Development, 2014)Inspiring Communities has been working to support and enable locally-led change through creating conditions for leadership and learning, since 2008. Inspiring Communities was born when 30 people in Aotearoa New Zealand ...
