• ABCD is a community development theory, model and practice that has been developed by Kretzmann and McKnight (1993) for a United States context.
• ABCD aimsมุ่ง to enable people to identify their own assets and envisionนึกภาพ ways they can use them to meet their own needs and the needs of their community (Haines and Green 2012). • ABCD facilitatesส่งเสริม the creation of new stories and meanings that help communities recognise their strengths, challenging problematic constructions of places (or people) as deficient (Ennis and West 2010; see also Bankoff 2001).
ABCD is based on an understanding that “every single person has capacities, abilities and gifts” (Kretzmann and McKnight 1993).
• Ennis and West (2010) summarise what they see as the four key principles of ABCD:
• change must come from within the community; • development must build upon the capacities and assets which exist within the community;
• change should be relationship driven, and change should be oriented towards sustainable community growth.