• 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.