All living things are made up of carbon, which makes it pretty darn
important!
In the carbon cycle, make sure you take note of 4 major processes
i. photosynthesis, respiration, and decomposition
ii. Erosion and volcanic activity
iii. Burial and Decomposition of
dead organisms and their
conversion into coal and petroleum
iv. Human activities such as mining,
cutting and burning forests, and
burning fossil fuels, releasing
carbon into the atmosphere as
carbon dioxide.
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Thus, the Centre for Civil Society, London, considers civil society as a sector on its own vis-à-vis the three other main sectors—state, business and family (see figure 1). Although there is some degree of consensus in the literature on this basic approach, the attribution of actors is contested. For example, both approaches can be summarized in the following definition or understanding of civil society:
• Civil society is the sector of voluntary action within institutional forms that are distinct from those of the state, family and market, keeping in mind that in practice the boundaries between these sectors are often complex and blurred;
• It consists of a large and diverse set of voluntary organizations, often competing with each other and oriented to specific interests. It comprises non-state actors and associations that are not purely driven by private or economic interests, are autonomously organized, and interact in the public sphere; and
• Civil society is independent from the state, but it is oriented toward and interacts closely with the state and the political sphere.
All living things are made up of carbon, which makes it pretty darn
important!
In the carbon cycle, make sure you take note of 4 major processes
i. photosynthesis, respiration, and decomposition
ii. Erosion and volcanic activity
iii. Burial and Decomposition of
dead organisms and their
conversion into coal and petroleum
iv. Human activities such as mining,
cutting and burning forests, and
burning fossil fuels, releasing
carbon into the atmosphere as
carbon dioxide.
Civil society is a complex concept. Although the term is widely used, seeming at times to be universal ideas. There is no commonly-agreed definition. The notion that civil society is the arena of voluntary, collective actions of people around shared interests, purposes and values is non-controversial. To define civil society further many authors describe its position in relation to other sectors of society and then group actors within these sectors.
Thus, the Centre for Civil Society, London, considers civil society as a sector on its own vis-à-vis the three other main sectors—state, business and family (see figure 1). Although there is some degree of consensus in the literature on this basic approach, the attribution of actors is contested. For example, both approaches can be summarized in the following definition or understanding of civil society:
• Civil society is the sector of voluntary action within institutional forms that are distinct from those of the state, family and market, keeping in mind that in practice the boundaries between these sectors are often complex and blurred;
• It consists of a large and diverse set of voluntary organizations, often competing with each other and oriented to specific interests. It comprises non-state actors and associations that are not purely driven by private or economic interests, are autonomously organized, and interact in the public sphere; and
• Civil society is independent from the state, but it is oriented toward and interacts closely with the state and the political sphere.
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Genuine rural development in a developing society depend largely on the participation of the rural dwellers on the policy formulation and implementation, especially in the area of development project. The rural people play a vital role in the economic and political develop of the nation. In spite of the facts that the bulk of economic produce as well as vote come from the rural area but the development is nothing to write about because the rural people are not involved in the policy formulation and implementation by the pass administration in the state. Fapetu Oluwadamilola V | Siyaka Mohammed "Participatory Rural Development in Nigeria: An Assessment of the 3’I’s Initiatives in Ondo State" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-3 , April 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd38663.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/sociology/38663/participatory-rural-development-in-nigeria-an-assessment-of-the-3’i’s-initiatives-in-ondo-state/fapetu-oluwadamilola-v
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Information and data from civil society by Lunaria_G.Naletto
1. Web-COSI EU FP7 Project
Towards the integration of official and non-official statistics
beyond GDP
Kick off meeting - Rome, 9th January, 2014
The information and data from civil society
to empower the policies
Grazia Naletto
President of Lunaria, coordinator of Sbilanciamoci!
2. Starting point
Statistical information, in order to be followed and
implemented by political action and decision makers,
needs a certain degree of legitimacy.
civil society engagement through public deliberation is
increasingly becoming a fundamental tool in order to grant
legitimacy to well-being and sustainability indicators
beyond GDP.
But what do we mean exactly by the terms ‘civil society’
and ‘public deliberation’?
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3. Public deliberation
Public deliberation can be understood as a discursive process of
exchange of information and opinions among a public facing
a common decision.
It represents the discursive dimension through which
collective preferences are formed and expressed.
If aimed at the reaching of a free and reasoned agreement, it
can generate legitimate and binding norms.
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4. Conditions for public deliberation
Equality of participants to the deliberative exchange.
Inclusion of all those involved in the application of the
norms to be deliberated.
The free, public and peer introduction and expression of
interests.
The pursuit of discursive agreement.
The orientation towards public good.
Thus, full legitimacy of public decisions cannot be exclusively
produced and ensured by formal institutions connected with
the activity of the state or of international organizations, but it
has to be based as well on civil society activation, involvement
and contribution.
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5. Civil society
Civil society is a third sphere in respect to the state and the
market: instead of power and money it aims at social
solidarity, which can only be achieved through discursive
agreement.
Among civil society actors: informal groups (neighbourhood,
self-help, consumption...), associations and committees,
NGOs, groups of interests, cooperatives, social, political and
cultural movements.
Civil society is characterised by the ability to make possible a
pluralistic participation and a free, open and inclusive
deliberation leading to a reflexive, informed and demanding
public opinion.
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6. The political dimension of civil society
involvement (1)
«Non-governmental organizations play a vital role in the
shaping and implementation of participatory democracy …
and possess well-established and diverse expertise and
capacity in fields which will be of particular importance to
the implementation and review of environmentally sound
and socially responsible sustainable development.»
(United Nations Environment Programme, Agenda 21, ch. 27)
The specific contribution of CSOs to the definition of
development and well-being perspectives beyond GDP is a
political contribution which links the participatory and the
cognitive dimension.
Over the last decade, major bottom up experiences have been
developed by civil society groups aiming at collecting and
disseminating non-official statistical indicators other than GDP
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for measuring human well-being and societal progress.
7. The political dimension of civil society
involvement (2)
Today there are hundreds of alternative indicators to GDP
developed through the involvement of civil society actors and
based on different models (social/subjective well-being,
sustainability, progress, development...) and methodologies.
The switch towards alternative measures of well-being is
rather a cultural/democratic process than a pure
methodological challenge: the concept of well-being
concerns and reflects peoples’ values and preferences.
The involvement of civil society actors is important in
determining, legitimating and sharing scientific, political and
cultural objectives such as the elaboration of public policies,
the priority setting of local government action, the definition
of the concepts of ‘well-being’, ‘social progress’,
‘development’…
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8. Civil society and the construction of
alternative indicators to GDP for measuring
well-being and social progress
CSOs stress that growth, taken in its narrow sense as a mere
increase in income, level of industrialization or investment, can
have distorting and negative consequences for the quality of
life of a given population if it is not combined with appropriate
social and environmental policies: to be able to talk about
‘development’, growth must be qualified i.e. accompanied by
increased well-being.
In supranational, national and local contexts we are now
witnessing the flourishing of many initiatives:
indicators developed by CSOs;
community indicators;
national civil society consultations.
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9. Some examples of well-being indicators
Basic Capabilities Index (Social Watch World Coalition)
The Happy Planet Index (New Economics Foundation)
Genuine Progress Indicator (Redifining Progress)
The Gender Equity and Quality of Life Index (Center for
Partnership Studies)
QUARS – Index of Regional Quality of Development
(Lunaria/Sbilanciamoci!)
+ many specific indicators such as:
The Child Development Index (Save the Children)
Footprint Index (WWF - World Wildlife Fund)
Corruption Perception Index (Transparency International)
Gender Equity Index (Social Watch)
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10. Some examples of community indicators
Community indicators are:
a democratic resource for engaging citizens and communities
in informed discussions about shared goals and priorities;
a policy resource guiding evidence-based planning and action
to address the issues identified as important by communities,
and
a reporting resource tracking and communicating progress
towards agreed goals and outcomes.
The Boston Indicators Project
(Boston, USA)
Guelph Community Wellbeing Initiative (City of Guelph,
Ontario, Canada)
Community Indicators Victoria (CIV) (Victoria, Australia)
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11. Some examples of national civil society
consultation
Canadian Index of Well-being (Canada)
Measure of Australia’s Progress (Australia)
Measures of National Well-being (UK)
Social Progress (Hungary)
Israel’s Progress Index (Israel)
Benessere Equo e Sostenibile - BES (Italy)
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12. Some information about Lunaria
Lunaria is an independent and non profit organization
founded in 1992. According to the current Italian legislation, it
is an Association for Social Promotion.
Lunaria’s activities focus on research and action research,
training and communication on several social issues such as fair
economy, the development of third sector, the study of
migration flows, globalisation trends and the links between
democracy and participation.
We test new forms of active citizenship and non-violent social
change inspired by the principles of justice, solidarity,
democracy and the respect of human rights for all.
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13. Lunaria and the Sbilanciamoci! campaign
In 2000, Lunaria has launched the Sbilanciamoci! (“Let's get
unbalanced!”) campaign, currently involving 50 Italian
associations and networks active on globalisation, peace,
culture, human rights, environment, fair trade, ethical finance.
Sbilanciamoci! publishes yearly reports (research activities),
meets policy makers (advocacy), organizes seminars,
conferences and public events aimed to promote a socially
useful and sustainable public spending (political and cultural
animation).
Since 2000, Sbilanciamoci! has proposed alternatives to the
Italian budgetary policies, arguing for social and environmental
priorities, and new collective paths in the measurement of
well-being ‘beyond GDP’ at the national and local level.
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14. The experience of Lunaria and Sbilanciamoci! in
the measurement of well-being
Since 2003, the work of Lunaria and Sbilanciamoci! on the
issues of well-being and the ‘quality’ of development is
addressed to:
stimulate public debate and orient policy priorities and
decisions (raising awareness and claiming cultural-political
legitimacy);
turn CSOs widespread and specific knowledge into statistics;
identify and monitor the most relevant indicators and the
progress of key variables for an equitable and sustainable wellbeing.
This process has led to the realization of a shared measure of
well-being for Italian regions - the QUARS (Quality of Regional
Development) Index.
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15. The QUARS (Regional Quality of Development)
Index – 1. Definition of well-being
The normative idea of well-being that drives the realization of
the QUARS Index refers to a territorial area in which:
the economic system of production, distribution and
consumption has a minimal impact on the environment and is
instead directed towards sustainability;
the distribution of wealth and income among the population
is as much as possible equitable and the right to ‘good
employment’ is granted;
the health and social services are well-distributed and have
high-quality standards;
the participation in cultural, social and political life is a
distinctive character of the community;
inclusion, equal rights and opportunities are at the basis of
the ‘social contract’.
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16. The QUARS Index – 2. Aims
At the base of the QUARS Index there is an idea of well-being
as an equitable and sustainable development:
a multidimensional conception that heeds not only economic
variables but also social, environmental and distributive aspects
of development.
The QUARS Index aims at providing:
a composite indicator able to grasp the multiple dimensions
of well-being;
a systematic comparison on the quality of development
between Italian regions in order to identify their relative
weaknesses and strengths;
a useful and user-friendly information and advocacy tool
based on a large dataset.
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17. The QUARS Index – 3. Methodology
Representatives of CSOs + researchers and academics
contribute to:
1st
phase: define the theoretical/scientific framework
(concept of well-being, applied methodology, selection of
relevant macroareas).
2nd phase: identify the key indicators and variables (there is
a lack of conventional and unconventional data at the
regional level).
3rd phase: find the equilibrium between indicators within
each macroarea: a set of 41 variables grouped in 7
dimensions of equal statistical weight.
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18. The QUARS Index – 4. Dimensions
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Environment: environmental impact and good ecological
practices.
Economy and labour: working condition and income
distribution.
Rights and citizenship: social inclusion and basic rights.
Equal opportunities: women participation to economic and
political life + access to social services.
Education and culture: level of education, quality of
structures, access to cultural events.
Health: quality and efficiency of health services, health
status of population.
Participation: citizens' participation to social and political
life.
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19. The QUARS Index – 5. Variables
ENVIRONMENT
ECONOMY AND LABOUR
RIGHTS AND CITIZENSHIP
Population density
Air pollution
Water and soil pollution
EcoMafia
Differentiated waste collection
Renewable energy
Protected areas
EcoManagement
Organic farming
Sustainable mobility
Job precariousness
Unemployment
Income inequality
Relative Poverty
Housing
Access to basic services
Social assistance
Disabled people LM participation
Migrants Integration
School dropouts
ISTAT
ISTAT
ISTAT
LEGAMBIENTE
ISTAT
ISTAT
ISTAT
LEGAMBIENTE
AIAB
ISTAT
SBILANCIAMOCI!
ISTAT
ISTAT
ISTAT
MINISTERO INTERNI
ISTAT
NUOVO WELFARE
ISTAT
SBILANCIAMOCI!
ISTAT
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20. The QUARS Index – 5. Variables
House health care
Cancer screening
Waiting lists
HEALTH
Hospital migrations
Public health system satisfaction
Avoidable mortality
School Infrastructure
High school participation
Education level
EDUCATION AND CULTURE
Third Education mobility
Public libraries
Theater and music
Consulting rooms
Labor market participation
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
Presence in politics
Kindergarten
Civil Society
Voluntary association
PARTICIPATION
Ombudsman
Newspaper diffusion
Voter turnout
ISTAT
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CITTADINANZATTIVA
ISTAT
SBILANCIAMOCI!
ERA
LEGAMBIENTE
ISTAT
MIUR
ISTAT
ISTAT
ISTAT
MINISTERO SALUTE
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SBILANCIAMOCI!
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SBILANCIAMOCI!
AUDIPRESS
MINISTERO INTERNI
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21. The QUARS Index – 6. Results and the
importance of communication
REGION
Trentino-Alto Adige
Emilia-Romagna
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Toscana
Valle d'Aosta
Umbria
Marche
Lombardia
Veneto
Piemonte
Liguria
Lazio
Abruzzo
Sardegna
Basilicata
Molise
Calabria
Puglia
Sicilia
Campania
QUARS
0.75
0.56
0.51
0.45
0.39
0.37
0.36
0.35
0.34
0.25
0.17
0.01
-0,06
-0,18
-0,44
-0,44
-1,76
-1,78
-1,89
-1,96
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22. Measuring well-being at the local level through
QUARS methodology
In the last few years QUARS methodology has been applied to
the measurement of well-being at the local level:
Lazio Region;
Piemonte Region;
Province of Rome;
Province of Arezzo;
Province of Ascoli Piceno;
Province of Trento;
Municipality of Arezzo;
Municipality of Cascina.
The results of these studies have been included in the economic
and financial planning documents of the above mentioned local
authorities for the discussion of their Budget Bill.
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23. Lunaria and Web-COSI (1)
As we have seen, the assessment and measurement of wellbeing has a very strong political significance: the selection of
statistics and indicators beyond GDP influences the evaluation
of policies to be implemented.
In this light, the numerous experiences in the EU of CSOs
involvement in the production of statistics beyond GDP are
relevant starting points to enlarge the European debate on
EU standards for the definition of well-being and social
progress.
In the course of Web-COSI project Lunaria will:
review existing practices experimented by CSOs to
elaborate non-official statistical indicators alternative to GDP.
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24. Lunaria and Web-COSI (2)
Select a number of case studies (best practices) to be
studied in detail: civil society networks involved in the
production of statistical information on economic, social and
environmental aspects related to well-being and driven by the
objective to produce an impact on public policies.
Organise a webinar and a public workshop with members of
such networks and other key actors in order to promote
mutual learning and disseminate the most incisive contents
and methods implemented by civil society for societal
innovation in the field of collecting statistics on well-being.
Summarise these findings, leading to suggestions to: a) civil
society networks, in order to increase their capability to engage
in policy discussion and their ability to represent a broader
range of CSOs; b) EU policy makers, in order to strengthen the
consultation process on well-being related issues and make
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deliberative practices more structured and relevant.
25. Thanks for your attention
www.lunaria.org
www.sbilanciamoci.org
naletto@lunaria.org