From indigenous peopleamprsquos groups classroom teachers and local and international community workers comes the desire to build community. Participatory Development Practice provides a theoretical and applied base for rethinking development practice that is deeply influenced by a amplsquocommunityamprsquo development tradition having its roots in participation and dialogue yet is broader than that. The book makes the link from the intrapersonal to the community and beyond into the interorganizational and international domains now required of twentyfirst century development work.ampnbsp The book is framed conceptually as implicate method starting with positioning self micro developing constructive relationships mezzo forming small participatory groups macro structuring participatory work within formal organizations and meta working with both local to global and global to local issues.ampnbsp Kelly and Westoby draw on diverse traditions of thought and practice including the written works of authoractivists such as Gandhi Freire Fanon and the unwritten oral traditions of female workers in Asia and First Peoples. The result is a true and tested methodology using frameworks of good ideas born from practice wisdom that have come from research and reflection on 70 years of combined experience.ampnbsp Participatory Development Practice helps experienced practitioners as well as scholars and students of international development community development and social work to reflect critically on the concepts and assumptions guiding their work. It is also aimed at corporate actors within community relations departments of major industry who increasingly interact with the public.