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.