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Caroline Andrew University of Ottawa

• Recent Research
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• Possible Links To ISRN Work

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Recent Research
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Municipal policy, in the context of municipal
reorganization, and its relationship to community
organization

• - impact of ethno-cultural diversity Ottawa
• - gender and diversity Ottawa and comparison
  Ottawa and Montreal
• - impact of decentralization policies of federal
  and provincial governments on Lower Town in Ottawa

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Municipal policy and federal policy

• part of federal team in multi-level governance
  project headed up by Bob Young (UWO)
• areas immigrant settlement, image-building

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Municipal policy and global/local networks

• women and safer cities

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Networks as elements in local governance

• in minority francophone health governance
• in regional forestry governance (in the rural
  part of the Outaouais region)
• in voluntary sector community and regional
  governance
• in local and regional Quebec networks around
  enhancing physical activity for school-aged
  children from poor urban neighbourhoods

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Methodological note

• participatory action research
• some historical research
• interviews

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Possible Links To ISRN Work
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Forms of urban governance and social innovation

• horizontal cross-sector coalitions and
  networks, community partnerships
• vertical multi-level networks
• horizontal and vertical social learning across
  sectors and scales

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Municipal government and community governance

• municipal role catalyst, participant, provision
  of resources
• democratic practices at the neighbourhood, city
  and city-region scale

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Governance and diversity

• integration of ethno-cultural diversity in urban
  governance
• economic employment, foreign credential
  recognition, training
• social municipal policies, activities of
  community organizations
• cultural organizations and forms of cultural
  expression
• political participation policies, structures
  and practices
• sensitivity to the intersections of diversity
  ethno-cultural, gender,class,age,etc

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Links between economic, social, cultural and
political dimensions of civic leadership

• building broad political support for civic
  leadership
• the dimensions of quality of life