Browsing Community Development Journal Articles by Subject "111708 Health and Community Services"
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Positive women : a community development response to supporting women and families living with HIV/AIDS in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Unitec ePress, 2016-10-26)This paper reflects on Positive Women’s twenty five years as a successful community development response to supporting women and families living with HIV or AIDS. The paper focuses on the community development philosophical ... -
Practice report : when life gives you apricots
(Unitec ePress, 2016-11-16)The International Association for Community Development (IACD) practice exchange in India this March gave me a whole new take on the saying “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade”, and a good lesson in the ways of an ... -
Radical community development : we do talk politics here
(Unitec ePress, 2015-05-01)Radical community development is explicitly political. It involves a combination of thought (analysis, debate, reflection) and action. Crucial to radical community development is standing with people experiencing oppression ... -
Reflections on forty years of community development
(Unitec ePress, 2016-11-16)My involvement in community development in Auckland spans forty years. It began with community work for Manukau City when the state housing suburbs of Ōtara and Māngere were being created. There was little accommodation ... -
Research report : youth volunteering in Auckland, 2019
(Unitec ePress, 2020-12-17)PREFACE: This research was sponsored by Volunteering Auckland (VA). It is part of their wider research into volunteering by young people (13 to 18 years). Previous work carried out by VA showed that at the age of 18 years ... -
Rethinking the true impact of voluntourism in line with new community development standards
(Unitec ePress, 2018-12-19)The volunteer tourism market now represents over $2 billion annually but its impact is not yet adequately understood. Studies that have considered the impacts of voluntourism on host communities have had some significant ... -
The rise and fall and rise again of an environmental social enterprise. (With apologies to the makers of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, one of my favourite British comedy series)
(Unitec ePress, 2020-02-24)Ki te kahore, he whakakitenga, ka ngaro te iwi Without foresight or vision the people will be lost In this paper I update earlier work on the case study in social enterprise in waste and recycling, using a community- ... -
Stood loyal right through
(Unitec ePress, 2017-09-11)Taken from Johnny Mitchell’s recorded reflections (1974) – 179 pages of transcripts. A friend of Johnny’s, Rev. Dr Bruce Hucker interviewed him. A group of deregistered waterside workers met the costs of tapes and ... -
Towards shared international standards for community development practice
(Unitec ePress, 2018-08-11)This paper provides the basis for shared international standards for community development practice. It presents the key themes and areas common across community development practice wherever that practice might take place ... -
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) : a framework for intersectoral collaboration
(Unitec ePress, 2017-09-11)After several years of negotiation and collaboration, the United Nations Goals for Sustainable Development (SDGs) came into effect in January 2016. The 17 goals, which include issues such as ending poverty and hunger, ... -
Using results based accountability to show progress in a long-term community project
(Unitec ePress, 2016-05-02)Violence Free Communities[1] (VFC) is a small New Zealand community development organisation which for 16 years has been running events and campaigns primarily in West Auckland, designed to prevent violence and increase ...
