What is locality development?
___Locality development is community-building through improving the process by which things get done.
___Locality development creates an infrastructure for community activism and action.
___Locality development emphasizes positive action on the part of a whole community.
Why should you engage in locality development?
___Locality development breaks down barriers within the community by encouraging and improving communication among all individuals and groups in the population.
___Locality development brings together people who normally have no contact, and defines the community as including all of them.
___Locality development lays a solid base for community support of activism around issues of importance.
___Locality development helps individuals and groups acquire new skills and knowledge.
___Locality development brings forth the natural leaders from within the community.
___Locality development encourages the community to identify its own resources and understand its own strengths.
___Locality development makes the community self-sufficient and able to identify and solve its own problems.
___Locality development gives voice to everyone, and makes participatory democracy the normal method of community decision-making.
___Locality development builds a foundation for real community and equity, leading to a healthy community and long-term, positive social change.
When should you engage in locality development?
___Locality development is appropriate at almost any time in almost any community.
Who should be involved in locality development?
___Locality development should be inclusive and participatory, involving people from all sectors and areas of the community.
How do you engage in locality development?
___Get to know the community by learning its history, spending time experiencing it, and establishing relationships with its members.
___Determine what will motivate the community to organize.
___Identify opinion leaders and other trusted individuals and groups, and work with them.
___Recruit people to the effort.
___Establish a communication system.
___Encourage leadership from within the community.
___Create a structure as a focus for the development effort.
___Define the most important issues that relate to the community's overall concerns.
___Develop a strategic plan.
___Continually monitor and evaluate your work.
___Make the locality development effort self-sustaining and community-run, so that it's established as a permanent fixture.