Problem
Insufficient means for community initiative
Experimental visualization of narrower problems
Other Names:
Inadequate cooperative tools for collaborationUndeveloped techniques for cooperative action
Difficulties of communal planning
Nature:
Although people in many small communities may express their wishes and hopes, they may not have the means to implement them. Channels of community decision-making tend to be obscure, there is little leadership training, and communities do not realize that people are their most valuable resource. The community remains fragmentary and individualistic, unable to gather either the momentum or the consensus which would allow it to move ahead. An attitude that outside official structures are responsible for most dimensions of economic and social development further reduces their willingness to assume local responsibility. The inevitable result of living in this situation is a sense of powerlessness. Incidence:
Technical planning skills and community organization are required to allow all residents to participate in important community issues on land use, schooling, community relations with government, and industrial and commercial development requiring complex decisions and strategic action. However, when residents try to expand the present educational facilities, their plans are generally untargeted. Broader Problems:
Obsolete methodsCommunity under-fulfilmentUnadapted community structures Narrower Problems:
Lack of community planDeficient communal mandateUnorganized labour potentialUnstructured improvement effortsUncoordinated expression of needsRefusal of families to participateUnderdeveloped community leadershipInadequate small-town business skillsWeak organization of community actionInadequate income of rural communitiesLimited means of marketing employable skillsInadequate dissemination of local informationRestricted opportunity for community activityUndeveloped channels for commercial initiativeLack of systems for achieving grassroots agreementIneffectiveness of democratic consultation proceduresDeteriorating economic situation of small communities Aggravates:
Unimplemented decisionsInadequate infrastructureThwarted cooperative successUndermined citizen confidenceIndecisive community programmesDelay in project implementationInadequate response to societal needsDisorganized liaison with formal support Subject(s):
Action → Action Society → Communities
Industry → Metal products
Societal Problems → Inadequacy
Management → Planning
Technology → Technical
Development → Development
Value Redistribution → Cooperative
Innovative change → Appropriateness
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST