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Self-reliance and social awareness are key factors in human development. Community participation in deciding policies and plans and implementing and controlling development programmes is now a widely accepted practice. Few technicians nowadays hold on to the once widely held belief that all that is required is that villagers “be taught to change their ways”. Today their aim is to enable individuals and families to become agents of their own development and change instead of being passive beneficiaries of development aid. No longer are people obliged to accept conventional solutions which are unsuitable: solutions may be found through their own initiative and improvisation.
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Skeet, M. (1981). Introduction. In: Family Care. Macmillan Tropical Community Health Manuals. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06130-3_1
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