needs assessment

Needs Assessment or Community Needs Analysis provides a method of assessing the total needs of a community of people: of that community, for that community and by that community.Community needs assessment involves assessing the needs that people have in order to live in: an ecologically sustainable environmenta community that maintains and develops viable social capitala way that meets their own economic and financial requirementsa manner that permits political participation in decisions that affect themselves
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