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Community engagement is distinctly different to community development or social welfare or handouts. It is based on key principles including:

• Learning is a mutually beneficial and reciprocal process – we all have something to offer each other in partnering
• Critical awareness of power dynamics in relationship between Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 and Community Partners: no exploitation or exclusion
• Participation of Community Partners from initial stages of activity
• Community ownership of the development process
• Sustainability of engagement/development outcome and not dependency

For more information, please refer to: http://www.ru.ac.za/communityengagement/

An institutional CE project is the Nelson Mandela Trading Live Initiative. More information can be found at: http://www.ru.ac.za/communityengagement/quicklinks/tradinglivegateway/

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