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Community Self-help Projects are an attempt to reduce poverty and satisfying basic needs by involving locals through community work. The Self-help project accelerates the pace of developing the concerned area such that the people themselves assert their economic, social, and cultural conditions maintaining the balance in concerned community ecosystem.
Introduction
The self-help dictionary meaning is that individuals provide for their even support and improvement in society or the act of providing for or improving oneself (Illustrated Oxford Dictionary 2013). Community Self-Help is a regional resource mobilization system in which the conception initiative and best of the exceptional responsibility rest with the occupants of the region or community concerned (Igbozurike 1977). Self-help projects are an attempt to reduce poverty and satisfying basic needs (Onibokun and Kumuyi 1990). Through community work, the self-help project...
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Tyagi, R., Vishwakarma, S., Yadav, S.S., Stanislavovich, T.A. (2021). Community Self-Help Projects. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Özuyar, P.G., Wall, T. (eds) No Poverty. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95714-2_28
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