Strengthening urban environment community groups

Description

Strengthening urban environment community groups involves building local capacity, fostering collaboration, and providing resources to empower residents in addressing environmental challenges. This strategy focuses on practical actions such as training, networking, and facilitating access to funding and information. By enhancing organizational skills and collective action, these groups can more effectively advocate for sustainable urban policies, implement local projects, and remedy issues like pollution, inadequate green spaces, and environmental injustice within their communities.

Implementation

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

Agenda 21 recommends the empowering of community groups, non-governmental organizations and individuals to assume authority and responsibility for managing and enhancing their immediate environment through participatory tools, techniques and approaches embodied in the concept of environmental care.