Benefits and Development of Community Projects

Benefits of Developing Community Projects

There are many benefits to developing a good project. Among them, we note the following:

1. The community worker should reach an early agreement with the administration of which they form part. For this, the project must be sufficiently developed.
2. To start the community process and move people toward organization, you need dissatisfaction with the status quo and hope in the possibilities of a solution. To gather these possible solutions, it is necessary that the community worker announce some viable or true plan. That announcement builds on the intervention project.
3. The transaction between projects or the reappropriation of one of them by people recreating procedures leads to developing a community worker project. The project should have adequate security, and that security allows it to enter into dialogue on other projects, forecasting, and so on.
4. An intervention project is also a particular form of ordering a pattern of practice, a way to translate any idea of intervention into a testable hypothesis in practice.

A project becomes a suggestion (hypothesis) about what my intervention can be valuable (given certain assumptions) and possible (given certain conditions). Having a comprehensive definition of the proposed intervention is a prerequisite for learning from one's own action and thereby improving practice.

The Development of an Intervention Project

Developing a project is a very laborious process that requires many things. It often requires having gathered information, sometimes building it, and reinterpreting other information we have collected. It also requires the ability to put into writing aspects that have not been explicitly reached earlier, professional creativity, and so on. Having scripts or guidelines for the development of projects can be very useful, but they must be modified to particularize essential feedback on the community worker's understanding of the intervention they will develop.

The most valuable asset in a community worker is not excessive intellectualization (which sometimes can become a bottleneck of communication). The ability to build relationships and meaningful contacts is more important.

The script should help avoid confusion, never increase it. The form of the final project report can be very variable and need not be contained in the script. The contents are arranged as most convenient; the headings of the sections will be placed at the end (responding to the content that is intended to be titled, etc.). The argument must follow an order that facilitates a good understanding of the issues and the intervention that we have built (i.e., express the philosophy of the project).

The project must be a significant document: it collects interpretations of problems and the intervention in which we believe.