Australian Indigenous community development: making the link between community development training and community development practice

Anne Stephens, Lesley Baird and Komla Tsey

Community Development, 2013, vol. 44, issue 3, 277-291

Abstract: There is little written about the link between community development training and community development practice in the context of Australian Indigenous community development. Wontulp Bi-Buya College (WBBC), in Queensland, Australia, is a training organization providing explicit training in community development to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders. A framework for understanding the complex nature of community development training and its impact on Indigenous community development is theorized through the lenses of (1) empowerment as a modeled strategy, (2) pedagogy, and (3) the importance of social capital ties, through the work being delivered at WBBC. Insights from this work have an important bearing on actions needed to achieve the Australian "Close the Gap" policy on Indigenous disadvantage, and in particular, appropriate program monitoring and evaluation frameworks used to assess interventions.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/15575330.2013.792291

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