This book will show you how and why participatory communities come into beingand what they can accomplish regardless of the current political climate. Italso ex... » 

This book will show you how and why participatory communities come into beingand what they can accomplish regardless of the current political climate. Italso examines leadership and the skills community leaders need to develop to bemost effective. Youll find ethnographic and psychosocial perspectives on therelationship between families and community organizations leadershipinterventions designed to facilitate more effective decisionmaking and moreall from organizations making a very real difference in a country that has hada strong community work tradition since the 1960s. «