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decisions; receiving services or attending a consultation alone does not establish community development.","Ask whether action develops collective ability to organise, learn or exercise influence beyond a single delivered output; project completion alone is insufficient evidence.","Ask which community is constituted and who may contest its representatives; a geographic service area or customer segment alone does not establish a community mandate.","Ask whether physical or economic improvements are assessed against community priorities and distributional effects; investment volume or property-value growth alone does not demonstrate community development.","Ask which conception of development participants and sponsors use, and preserve disagreements rather than treating the sponsor's objectives as shared."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"community-and-development-meaning","name":"Community and development meaning","description":"Establishes who constitutes the community and what 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members access, and who controls or restricts their use?","id":"usable-assets-and-constraints-q01","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"Which unmet needs require external resources or institutional change rather than additional unpaid community effort?","id":"usable-assets-and-constraints-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"community-action-and-institutional-change","name":"Community action and institutional change","description":"Connects community priorities to initiatives, partnerships and changes in institutional practices.","layers":[{"id":"priorities-to-initiatives","name":"Priorities to initiatives","description":"Traces selected activities to community priorities and explicit expectations about change.","findings":[{"id":"community-grounded-action-logic","name":"Community-grounded action logic","description":"Records why an initiative was chosen and how its activities are expected to improve conditions or collective agency.","questions":[{"text":"Through what community process was this initiative selected, and which alternative priorities were deferred or disputed?","id":"community-grounded-action-logic-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"How is the initiative expected to change lived conditions and collective capacity, and what evidence would challenge that expectation?","id":"community-grounded-action-logic-q02","kind":"measurement"}]}]},{"id":"external-institutions-and-negotiation","name":"External institutions and negotiation","description":"Makes institutional commitments, constraints and unequal bargaining positions visible.","findings":[{"id":"partnership-terms-and-influence","name":"Partnership terms and influence","description":"Records what public bodies, funders, businesses and practitioners commit to and how community actors can influence those commitments.","questions":[{"text":"Which external decisions or funding conditions constrain community priorities, and where is there evidence of community influence over them?","id":"partnership-terms-and-influence-q01","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"What commitments can community representatives negotiate, monitor or challenge, and through which accountable channels?","id":"partnership-terms-and-influence-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"outcomes-equity-and-continuity","name":"Outcomes, equity and continuity","description":"Assesses changes in community conditions and agency, their distribution and the prospects for maintaining valued gains.","layers":[{"id":"community-defined-outcomes","name":"Community-defined outcomes","description":"Combines locally meaningful indicators with evidence about unequal effects and alternative explanations.","findings":[{"id":"benefits-harms-and-contribution","name":"Benefits, harms and contribution","description":"Distinguishes completed activities from changes in lives and collective influence without assuming causal attribution.","questions":[{"text":"Which community-selected indicators changed from baseline, for 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manageable?","id":"durable-gains-and-responsible-exit-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"Under what community-agreed conditions should the initiative continue, adapt, transfer responsibilities or close?","id":"durable-gains-and-responsible-exit-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"evidence-and-external-alignment","name":"Evidence and external alignment","description":"What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.","layers":[{"id":"reported-evidence","name":"Reported evidence","description":"Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.","findings":[{"id":"evidence-confidence-notes","name":"Check these first","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these check these first hold for the sense of community development this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-confidence-notes-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-kinds","name":"Kinds and varieties","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of community development this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-kinds-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-standards-and-regulation","name":"Standards and regulation","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of community development this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-real-world-use","name":"Real-world use","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these real-world use hold for the 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condition; shared interest; overlapping bases; contested boundary","Development orientation: Locally stated orientations, potentially including collective empowerment, mutual support, service improvement, livelihood development or transformation of unequal conditions","Community decision authority: Community constituencies linked to agenda-setting, budget, implementation and evaluation decisions, with advisory, shared, delegated or final authority recorded separately","Participation coverage: Participants as a percentage of an explicitly defined eligible population, disaggregated where appropriate; unknown where no defensible denominator exists","Collective capacity trajectory: Strengthening; stable; weakening; mixed; unknown, supported by evidence about organising, leadership, knowledge and institutional influence","Resource control and dependence: Resources linked to owners, access conditions, decision rights, funder restrictions and replacement options","Distribution of outcomes: 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