BUILDING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES Frameworks, Tools and Learnings

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BUILDING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES Frameworks,
Tools and Learnings
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Well-being is achieved by people communities
choosing acting with their capabilities
resources

• Capabilities and Resources
• Economic (jobs, money, physical infrastructure)
• Social (family, networks, associations, rights)
• Cultural (shared values, norms, reciprocity)
• Human (skills, knowledge, creativity)
• Natural (natural resources, ecosystem)
• (Amartya Sen 1985)

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What is a Community?

• A network of people organisations bound
  together by factors such as
• Shared identity, culture and/or whakapapa
  eg. hapu/iwi or ethnic group
• Common geography, locality, place
• Administrative or political arrangements
• Similar interest or kaupapa eg. voluntary
  organisation, Maori community group, online
  virtual community, work (Based on OECD,
  1998 Royal Commission on Social Policy, 1988)

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What is a Sustainable Community?

• Maintains carrying capacities (natural resources,
  cultural values, human and social capital,
  economy and built capital)
• Considers future generations
• Retains diversity (creativity, skills)
• Balanced development - recognises
  interconnections of everything
• Considers wider interdependencies
• Community-owned, participatory

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Community Sustainable Development Planning

Whole Community Involvement
Where were going Community Vision, Identifying
SD Outcomes
Where were at Community Needs, Community
Profile
How we get there Community Plan/Actions
Informed choices, balanced development options
Social/Cultural Capital
Natural Capital
HumanCapital
Finance/Physical Capital
Community capabilities and assets
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Building Strong, Sustainable Communities

• Key Enablers of Sustainable Communities

Community Well-being Outcomes
Communitys Journey to Sustainability Well-being
Identifying Needs Concerns
Gathering Community Information
Visioning, Identifying Outcomes
Community SD Planning
Community SD Action
Access to Information
Identity, Shared Values
Access to Resources
Strong Social Capital
Sklled leaders, Capable organisations
Brokering Partnerships
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Enablers of Strong, Sustainable Communities
(Research evidence)

• A sense of community identity, shared values
  vision of a sustainable future
• Skilled leaders capable organisations
• Strong social capital bridging, bonding
  linking networks opportunities for civic
  participation
• Access to necessary resources services
• Access to relevant advice, information, research
  technology
• Essential public infrastructure
• Supportive legislative regulatory environment

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Resources for Community Brokers SCD Guide

• Chapter 1 The Big Picture Govt Policies
  the SCD Framework
• Chapter 2 Our Approach to Building
  Sustainable Communities
• Chapter 3 The Community Broker Role
• Chapter 4 The SCD Action-Research Project
• Chapter 5 CD Practice in Communities
• Chapter 6 Community-wide Planning
• Chapter 7 Strengthening Community Social
  Capital
• Chapter 8 Relationship-building and
  Collaborative Partnerships
• Chapter 9 Facilitating Access to Relevant
  Information
• Chapter 10 Mobilising Necessary Resources
• Chapter 11 Relations with Tangata Whenua, PI
  Ethnic Comm.
• Chapter 12 Relevant Public Sector Policies and
  Legislation

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Resources for Community BrokersSCD Toolkit

• 1 Story-Telling as a Learning Tool for CD
  Practice
• 2         Collaborative project planning
• 3           SCDI Local Action-Project Next Steps
  guide
• 4           Community Visioning
• 5           Appreciative Inquiry
• 6           Outcomes Priorities participatory
  planning for SCD
• 7           Measures/indicators of Sustainable
  Communities
• 8 Community Capacity Assessment Toolkit
• 9           Community/civic participation methods
• 10 Mapping and mobilising community social
  capital
• 11      Building maintaining collaborative
  partnerships 12      Community Profiling
• 13      Inventorying community assets
• 14      Describing analysing the local
  economy 15      Collaborative investment
  model
• 16      Community Investment Portfolio
• 17      Local Government Act 2002 materials
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