... governance Community development The purpose of local governments is to develop their territory, often a municipality or region, to improve its economic future and the quality of life of its inhabitants (World Bank, 2005). Development partners and practitioners advocate that local level development...

... programmes, and to explore how evaluation activity may be influenced by assumptions about policy implementation. The evaluation primarily used this theoretical basis to assess how far the process of Communities First had supported progression towards the objectives of community development, both...

... identifies key issues in achieving empowerment objectives by examining the eight‐year experience of the Communities First programme. Richard Bromiley can be contacted at: richard.bromiley@southwales.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Empowerment Community development Wales...

.... This has been taken up by community development specialists with particular reference to the position, at best ambiguous, of representatives or residents of local communities on the boards of regeneration partnerships. This paper aims to review this theory. Design/methodology/approach Reviews...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Amalgamations Organizational change Community development Local government Why do governments pursue amalgamation based on efficiencies, yet produce a very different result once amalgamation is complete? While there are extensive research...