Transformative Community Development

Learning from Freirean and humanist praxis in Nepal

By: Peter Westoby, Ammar Bahadur Air, Rachael Donovan

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Paperback | 30 September 2026

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220 Pages

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This book shares the story and lessons learned of a long-term, people-centred community development practice in Nepal grounded in Freirean and humanist traditions. Drawing on over twenty-five years of work by the Nepali organisation Sahakarmi Samaj, it presents the Facilitation for Empowerment and Social Transformation (FEST) approach as a process-oriented alternative to dominant service-delivery and project-based development models. Through collaborative research by Nepali and Australian practitioner-scholars, the book explores how empowerment and social transformation are cultivated across interconnected levels of practice-from the formation of community-based facilitators and grassroots dialogue to collective organising, federation building, and policy influence. Combining lived practice stories, theory, and critical reflection, the book offers a grounded account of transformative community development in action, with relevance for practitioners, educators, researchers, and policy makers seeking people-centred approaches to social change.

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