Defining Community-Based Organization
The term “community” could be defined as a group of people who are living in the same place and participate in achieving their common interests. What it suggests is that community is developed by a systematic, interactive, and interdependent relationship with each other. It also heavily relies on shared history, mutual expectations, predictable roles, values, norms, and patterns of status differentiation (Brager et al. 1987). The sense of a community then leads to community organizing. Therefore, community-based organizations (CBOs) are defined as an organized community group that is directed by some goal/s (social, political, economic development) to serve the common interest of the community. They may be nonprofit or volunteer-based, but they can be formed to achieve direct profit as a community. Either way, the goal of the CBOs is to...
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Sakib, N.H. (2020). Role of Community-Based Organization to Combat Corruption. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3933-1
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