About Community Partnering
The community partnering process involves grass roots research that helps people to imagine and enact new pathways for local development. It aims for action-oriented partnerships between
- Ordinary people with local knowledge
- Groups of people interested in change
- Community leaders
- Technical experts
- Local government
- Non-government organizations
- People's organizations
- Provincial and national government
- International aid agencies
- University researchers
Partnerships are formed to increase the well-being of local people and open up new opportunities for the development of more resilient communities.