Social Remittances: an alternative approach to development cooperationGeoCommunity
Jana Hasalová: Social Remittances:an alternative approach to development cooperation (presentation), Študentská vedecká konferencia Prírodovedeckej fakulty Univerzity Komenského v Bratislave,
27th April 2011
Focusing Development on Communities of Concern: Smart Growth and its Impact o...Urban Habitat
This panel is part of the Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute's (BCLI) Current Issues Series of Urban Habitat.
Plan Bay Area, approved in July 2013, moves the region's growth towards communities in the urban core within so called Priority Development Areas. These PDAs are typically developed communities throughout the Bay Area's 101 jurisdictions with existing and/or planned transportation and service infrastructure, but they are also existing communities where low-income people and communities of color are currently living.
As Plan Bay Area shifts 70% of future growth into these existing PDA areas, significant resources will be poured into historically dis-invested areas such as East San Jose, most of San Francisco and Oakland, and various other urban core communities throughout the Bay Area.
Who benefits from these investments? Will these resources support existing residents or displace them? Will regional planning create neighborhoods that disproportionately benefit newer, more affluent residents who will be lured by transit-rich, thriving urban communities?
Includes slides from featured speakers:
Vu-Bang Nguyen, Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Jennifer Martinez, Peninsula Interfaith Action
Dawn Phillips, Causa Justa::Just Cause
These slides are uploaded with permission from OPM, the Office for Public Management. Ewan King of OPM used them to introduce a seminar at NESTA in London on January 11 2011 on Community Organising in Big Society. The seminar launched a report which can be downloaded here.
http://www.opm.co.uk/resources/33560/download
Social Remittances: an alternative approach to development cooperationGeoCommunity
Jana Hasalová: Social Remittances:an alternative approach to development cooperation (presentation), Študentská vedecká konferencia Prírodovedeckej fakulty Univerzity Komenského v Bratislave,
27th April 2011
Focusing Development on Communities of Concern: Smart Growth and its Impact o...Urban Habitat
This panel is part of the Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute's (BCLI) Current Issues Series of Urban Habitat.
Plan Bay Area, approved in July 2013, moves the region's growth towards communities in the urban core within so called Priority Development Areas. These PDAs are typically developed communities throughout the Bay Area's 101 jurisdictions with existing and/or planned transportation and service infrastructure, but they are also existing communities where low-income people and communities of color are currently living.
As Plan Bay Area shifts 70% of future growth into these existing PDA areas, significant resources will be poured into historically dis-invested areas such as East San Jose, most of San Francisco and Oakland, and various other urban core communities throughout the Bay Area.
Who benefits from these investments? Will these resources support existing residents or displace them? Will regional planning create neighborhoods that disproportionately benefit newer, more affluent residents who will be lured by transit-rich, thriving urban communities?
Includes slides from featured speakers:
Vu-Bang Nguyen, Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Jennifer Martinez, Peninsula Interfaith Action
Dawn Phillips, Causa Justa::Just Cause
These slides are uploaded with permission from OPM, the Office for Public Management. Ewan King of OPM used them to introduce a seminar at NESTA in London on January 11 2011 on Community Organising in Big Society. The seminar launched a report which can be downloaded here.
http://www.opm.co.uk/resources/33560/download
Can Organisations of the Urban Poor be Significant Actors in 'building' Socia...Caroline Cage
In 2005 Sattherthwaite and D’Cruz made the bold assertion that ‘Perhaps the most significant initiative today in urban areas of Africa and Asia in addressing poverty… is the work of organizations and federations formed and run by the urban poor or homeless’. With growing numbers of NGOs in urban areas, as well as pressure on governments to increase citizen involvement in decision-making, large-scale Organisations of the Urban Poor (OUPs) are becoming recognised as potentially important civil society actors in urban decision-making and implementation. Urban poor federations such as Slum Dwellers International (SDI) have spread rapidly through the developing world, while at the same time NGOs have begun supporting umbrella groups as longer-term representatives of the urban poor.
In Kisumu (one of the fastest growing cities in Kenya and focus of the 2007 post-election violence), both SDI and NGO supported groups are operating in several wards of the city, attempting to perform similar functions of representation and coordination in the community. However, there are differences both in their supporting organisations, and in the way the groups themselves are structured and function internally. For example, while NGO supported groups may be seen as less antagonistic, and therefore perhaps better able to connect to local state actors, they may also be more constrained by the same overarching structures of donor aid and financing that has been found to limit the NGOs which support them. So how representative are they? Do they increase solidarity? And how do they influence, or are they influenced by external actors? This paper presents early findings from research into the Horizontal and Vertical Social Capital of SDI and NGO supported umbrella groups in Kisumu in order to understand how effective these groups are in their intended role as bridges between external partners and the community.
Presentation by Sam Chimbuya and Rahel Otieno from Khanya-African Institute for Community Driven Development, at the Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches seminar on 26th January 2011 at the Institute of Development Studies, Brighton
Can Organisations of the Urban Poor be Significant Actors in 'building' Socia...Caroline Cage
In 2005 Sattherthwaite and D’Cruz made the bold assertion that ‘Perhaps the most significant initiative today in urban areas of Africa and Asia in addressing poverty… is the work of organizations and federations formed and run by the urban poor or homeless’. With growing numbers of NGOs in urban areas, as well as pressure on governments to increase citizen involvement in decision-making, large-scale Organisations of the Urban Poor (OUPs) are becoming recognised as potentially important civil society actors in urban decision-making and implementation. Urban poor federations such as Slum Dwellers International (SDI) have spread rapidly through the developing world, while at the same time NGOs have begun supporting umbrella groups as longer-term representatives of the urban poor.
In Kisumu (one of the fastest growing cities in Kenya and focus of the 2007 post-election violence), both SDI and NGO supported groups are operating in several wards of the city, attempting to perform similar functions of representation and coordination in the community. However, there are differences both in their supporting organisations, and in the way the groups themselves are structured and function internally. For example, while NGO supported groups may be seen as less antagonistic, and therefore perhaps better able to connect to local state actors, they may also be more constrained by the same overarching structures of donor aid and financing that has been found to limit the NGOs which support them. So how representative are they? Do they increase solidarity? And how do they influence, or are they influenced by external actors? This paper presents early findings from research into the Horizontal and Vertical Social Capital of SDI and NGO supported umbrella groups in Kisumu in order to understand how effective these groups are in their intended role as bridges between external partners and the community.
Presentation by Sam Chimbuya and Rahel Otieno from Khanya-African Institute for Community Driven Development, at the Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches seminar on 26th January 2011 at the Institute of Development Studies, Brighton
Healthcare Waste Management in the Context of Global Health InitiativesUNDP Eurasia
Presentation given by Dr. Christoph Hamelmann (UNDP) and Ignacio Sanchez Diaz (UNDP) during the ISWA 2015 World Congress, Antwerp at the technical session on Healthcare Waste.
“We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to m...Amouzou Bedi
KFDWB’s mission is to provide worldwide Development Aid Support to development agencies, organizations, local governments, NGOs public and private institutions by helping local communities know and understand which human development challenges and/or frustrations they are facing each day, and make these information and knowledge universally accessible via a central database and useful to development organizations and local and national responsible bodies in order to highlight and alleviate the problems at a community level to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the forthcoming Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in each corner of the globe.
Quality strategic planning and strategy delivery is increasing in importance as a process and set of tools that guide the development of a municipality. In times when resources are tight, effective and efficient resource allocation is gaining even more importance. This publication will therefore suggest a practical four-stage process to strategic planning at the municipal level, including the setting up of effective structures for managing the strategy process (1), preparing a good strategic analysis of the municipality (2), strategy formulation (3) and strategy implementation (4). A key concept throughout this process is partnership: partnerships within the municipality, as well as with others outside the municipal building, with whom these four steps are undertaken together. Partnerships help make the municipal development process more transparent and accountable, thereby increasing the likelihood of the municipal development strategy to deliver the expected results and contribute to the improved quality of life of citizens.
Developing Climate Resilient Flood and Flash Flood Management Practices to Protect Vulnerable Communities of Georgia - The Role of Risk Modelling in the Development of Flood Insurance Model in Georgia
1. The Cluj Initiative and what is behind
BBL, BRC, 28th November, 2012
Adrian Raulea, Head of Department for Development, Municipality of Cluj
Cristina Rat, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj
Gabriella Tonk, Local Project Coordinator, UNDP Romania
Marta Marczis, CTA, UNDP
2. Based on your own experience, have you ever
wondered why certain local communities perform better
than others and how this phenomenon affects territorial
disparities?
And how to change it?
3. Lost ‘power of place’ – Increasing territorial
disparities
“Complex problems”
Demography – Education – Remoteness – Employment, which problems
interact and generate ‘vicious circles’ that reproduce and amplify the
phenomenon of area based poverty and exclusion
Unbalanced development policies
Economic devaluation of the peripheral territories and lack of interest on
“small scale” development in close relation to exclusion of poor and
vulnerable
Lost local capability to mobilize endogenous socio-economic-
environmental resources and/or absorb external resources
4. Regional (territorial) development bottlenecks
Lacking
participation, action, strategy and programme sustainability on local
level;
unified data/monitoring/organization system, network building,
knowledge products and pools
coordination in planning and implementation of programmes and
projects and a gap between national and sub-national/local level
managerial and operational capacity either to plan or to implement
complex public policies on national and sub-national level;
political/administrative weight necessary for coordinating the
different ministries and administration potentially involved in Roma
inclusion policies
Sectoral, fragmented (instead of integrated funding and institutional
frames) and short-term, project oriented approach (instead of
financing long term complex processes)
5. Consequences for ‘Territorial’ consequences
individuals
human capacity for local
lost self-confidence and trust in
development is lacking, while
future perspectives
exclusion and discrimination is
low ambition, inactivity, depression growing, which causes lack of
lost “local knowledge” and “life- absorption confers serious social
management” skills and economic problems
low qualifications and working skills infrastructural and institutional
aid dependency coverage is weak
growing feeling of exclusion and lack of services
discrimination limited information access
increasing health and family- exquisitely high unemployment
problems (including problems with weak “voice”
drug and alcohol) widespread practice of usury and
increasing criminality
… and the victims: 1 million people, 10 % of the people live in disadvantaged
areas in Hungary.
7. The “holy trinity” of the
Community-led Local Development
‘Area’
‘Partnership’
and
‘Strategy’
8. ‘Legal empowerment’ suggests that the communities living
out of mainstream create the necessary services and our
job is to legalize them and make them effective
Ensure that we have a
person/company
running utilities
People, families or small
communities could
become their own
supplier via use of
renewable and micro
grids
9. KEYS to inclusive local development
Target group must
be the actor of local
development +
Area-based approach
Both top-down and bottom-up
in character
Community level
intervention for
Three-partite Partnership
Management and Financing
Integrated and Multi-sectoral
approach – Linkage between Inclusive
actions
Innovation
National and trans-national
Development
Cooperation and Networking
10. Capacity is development!
Local animation - External coaching to mobilize local resources and bring
innovation
Global -grant - ‘Learning by doing’ to develop local skills and partnerships
through ‘action’
Social organization – From self-help to social and economic integration
Local Inclusion Centre - Creating focal point for localizing development .
Serving as information, training, CD, monitoring and evaluation hub for the
pilots, opened for others too
Built and functioning development network and communication channels of
the pilots opened for others too
Increase the absorption area based – Generating, financing and
implementing flagship projects and creating future action plan
Provide model to other regions and programmes
Across borders over political and professional border lines
13. Strategy is not the first and it is
not a paper
Participatory actions
Mapped and re-organized (local) resources
(assessment)
Partnerships and projects will born
Strategy – it is a process
Multi-level networking and
Local development and inclusion centre