Community development seeks to empower individual and groups of people by providing them with the skills they need to effect change in their own communities. These skills are often created though the formation of large social groups working for a common agenda. Community developers must understand both how to work with individuals and how to affect communities’ positions within the context of larger social institutions.
Community development is a comprehensive approach towards poverty reduction – the multi-level cooperation approach. This approach integrated livelihood generation, socio-economic empowerment, and training services enhancements into direct-intervention development project such as: construction of rural roads, bridge construction, up to disaster-rehabilitation of basic infrastructure.
KEI carries out a significant number of poverty reduction / community development activities as part of its projects undertaken for the construction, rehabilitation, and improvements of rural roads and bridges and access-to-market roads.
In the Philippine, KEI has been involved in the Rural Infrastructure and communities Development in Mindanao Area from 2010. And in the Laos, KEI carried out a plan study for community development in 1999.
In the Afghanistan, KEI has been carried out a support for the return refugees and infrastructure for the people from 2010 until at the present..
