No. 13 (2018): Development resulting from community action
Community action refers to any initiatives that come from a community (local, identity-based, or interest-based) or from public institutions, through professionals, with the goal of providing a collective solution to a social problem or common need. Its history is multifaceted and, in some countries, barely documented. It can use strategies that are consensus-based, that raise awareness, or that even involve conflict, as long as it is based on the principle that citizens have the mostaware knowledge of their experiences, that they have resources, and that the process created by the action increases their power to act.
