Community-Based Practice

Community-based practice is an active process in which community participants such as individuals, families, communities or organizations assume liabilities and build abilities to promote the community development, rather than just be a only interest recipient (Bamberger, 1986). As a local level participation, the objectives and the scope of it are different from the national or regional levels. On the whole, community-based participation can be summarized as three different types. The first one are the beneficiary involvement activities, the second are the ones with the help of external forces and the third are the spontaneous activities without external assistance or local participation. Despite the widespread emphasis on consultant and negotiation,