• CD is the method, process, programme and strategy by means of which
change agents:
✓ speed up the rate at which a community develops;
✓ provide direction to the development process to realise objectives
within the economic, psychosocial, bio-physiological,
technological, spiritual-cultural, political, environmental,
educational and other spheres of life;
✓ makes the goal attainment process as cost-effective, streamlined
and sustainable as possible so that both human and
environmental resources are used optimally; and
✓ contribute to human growth and the unlocking of human
potential by empowering community members to take
responsibility for their own, as well as the whole system's
development.
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