Understanding Community Development vs. Community Organization
Community development involves uniting efforts of the people with government authorities to enhance economic, social, and cultural conditions, while community organization focuses on identifying problems and resources within a community for more effective functioning. Both are crucial for social development, with differences in emphasis, practice, aims, objectives determination, and more.
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Definition of Community Development and Community Organization and Difference b/w both these Concepts
Community Development: The process by which the efforts of the people themselves are united with government authorities to improve the economic, social and cultural conditions of communities to integrate these communities into the life of nation and to enable them to contribute fully to national progress is called community development . (K. D.Gangrade) (or) Community development is a process designed to poster better living of a community through the indigenous participation of the community people and utilization of community resources accompany by government all assistance and professional help by a social worker .
Community Organization: Community organization is a process in which a professional social worker directly identifies problems, needs and resources of the community to modify the resources and existing services for more effective functioning. (Or) Community organization is a process by which a community identifies needs or objectives, takes action, and through this process, develops cooperative and collaborative attitudes and practices within a community. (Murray G. Ross, 1967)
Difference: Thus we see that community development and community organization both are essential for securing the ultimate goal of social development. But there are some differences between both of them such as: 1) Main Emphasis: In community development the main emphasis is on improvement of conditions of people through the provision of expert knowledge as also services rendered by the functionaries of the government. While in community organization efforts made by community organizer are mainly directed towards bringing about an adjustment between community s felt needs and resources through the modification and coordination of its existing services, and towards promoting community integration through the development of cooperation and collaboration among people.
2) Practice: Community development is practiced mainly in underdeveloped and static communities where as community organization is practiced in developed and dynamic communities. 3)Aim: Community development aims at breaking through the static character of the community and introducing some new changes in the conventional way of life where as community organization aims at alleviating the changes which have already been introduced in the community.
4) Objectives Determination: The objectives of community development program are always determined by the community people but the goals of community organization are more specific and they are determined by the agency itself. 5) Program Treatment: Community development constructs program for community betterment but community organization evaluates programs which meet the changing and multifarious needs of the community people.
6) Dealing: Community development deals directly with the community people while community organization deals with the representatives of the community people. In short, community organization community development ends. starts where the
