Improving existing communities


  • Micro development
  • Local development
  • Undertaking community development
  • Offering adequate community development
  • Providing sufficient community development
  • Strengthening communities

Description

Improving the economic, social and cultural conditions of a village, small town or city neighbourhood through having residents' plan and execute the improvements.

Context

Humans are social beings and society is comprised of individuals. Throughout generations, human beings have inevitably always lived together, grouped initially by family connection and then linked by other ties or interests. Communities give a sense of belonging: a human environment in which to express oneself, interact and grow. Ultimately, every human being belongs to the global community. Communities may evolve or be formed for different reasons, but whatever the reasons, the purpose of a community is to serve human needs. Commonality or like-mindedness play a valid part. But normally the parameters in which a community is formed will be such that the community will contain people who have differences on at least one level, be it age, nationality, ideology, culture or profession. Transcending these differences by acknowledging the common denominator of the human worth of every individual is the foundation upon which the real strength of the community can be built. Any community that is to survive and flourish must respond to the needs of its members as humans beings and seek to harmonize personal interests and those of the community as a whole. A community which fails to take account of human nature will eventually defeat its own purposes and suffer disintegration.

Implementation

UNICEF through the Bamako Initiative in West and Central Africa explored the possibility of development from below, of community participation and even of community financing. Experiences of this type exist in the region, at very different levels, ranging from traditional community-based organizations and development taxes to various committees (health, water and development) which flourished in an effort to respond the many problems and their financial implications.

Counter claim

  1. Local development does not effect large regional issues.

  2. Local development tends to aggravate class tensions at the local level because the most developed classes may advance and the least developed may not advance at all.

Narrower

  1. Undertaking local planning
  2. Undertaking local infrastructure development projects
  3. Undertaking community renewal
  4. Training in community water resources management
  5. Supporting very small scale economic activities
  6. Supporting community based programmes for the poor
  7. Strengthening urban environment community groups
  8. Strengthening role of indigenous peoples and communities
  9. Strengthening role of indigenous communities for sustainable development
  10. Strengthening participation of scientists in sustainable development
  11. Strengthening local governments
  12. Strengthening inclusive community structures
  13. Strengthening efforts to ensure communities get adequate benefits from the use of local resources
  14. Strengthening cooperation between developing countries
  15. Strengthening community-based rehabilitation for urban disabled
  16. Strengthening community-based land resource protection
  17. Strengthening community interaction
  18. Strengthening community communications
  19. Strengthening community based rehabilitation for urban elderly
  20. Strengthening community based rehabilitation for the handicapped in rural areas
  21. Revitalizing community structures
  22. Renewing local economy
  23. Recreating community identity systems
  24. Providing community services
  25. Providing community security
  26. Providing alternative to traditional community patterns
  27. Operating community networks
  28. Motivating community involvement
  29. Managing community health
  30. Improving police responsiveness
  31. Improving participation
  32. Improving means for community initiative
  33. Improving coordination among public, NGOs, indigenous people and local communities
  34. Improving community street lighting
  35. Improving community service performance
  36. Improving community self image
  37. Improving community promotion
  38. Improving community policing
  39. Improving community care for transient urban populations
  40. Implementing basic community organization
  41. Forming local development association
  42. Forming community partnerships
  43. Facilitating self-conscious community
  44. Establishing community development corporation
  45. Eliciting community development effort
  46. Developing virtual communities
  47. Developing socio-physical community structures
  48. Developing smart communities
  49. Developing rural communities
  50. Developing community operating regulations
  51. Developing community leadership
  52. Developing available community resources
  53. Creating modern ethnic communities
  54. Coordinating community economic ventures
  55. Building community social fabric
  56. Broadening corporate community activities


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