strategy
Developing available community resources
Synonyms:
Capacity buildingExtending available community resources
Enabling community resource accrual
Innovating with local basic resources
Using untapped community resources
Capitalizing local resource opportunities
Enabling local resource use
Making local resources available
Mobilizing potential community resources
Implementation:
Many successful development projects showed innovation in creating resources out of materials formerly thought to be waste, or creating a skills base in the village out of 'non-trainable' people. Resource development of this kind does not enter into most conventional macro-economic calculations, yet these innovations may be the most feasible ways for local villages to move toward self-dependence. Houses can be build for a fraction of the normal cost A using waste materials. The Greenbelt Movement, a project in Kenya for soil conservation and reafforestation, uses handicapped people and school children as the human resources for its efforts. A health project in Mexico makes teaching materials out of sticks and pieces of old rubber tyre. UNICEF and WHO report how diarrhoea can be treated in the village with water, local salts and a natural sweetener.
Claim:
The right to draw upon the wealth and resources of the natural economy is held by the local residents, a right which is balanced by an equal responsibility to act as caretakers of that natural wealth.
Narrower:
Constructing public buildingsDeveloping local medical resourcesDeveloping local product resourcesCreating usable community propertyExhibiting varied community skillsInstigating community resources management Facilitates:
Recovering unused urban spacesDemonstrating small scale farmingImproving income of rural communities Facilitated by:
Listing community resourcesCatalyzing development dynamicMotivating community involvementExploring unused local resourcesApplying community growing skillsCatalyzing community work projectsPromoting community self-determinationLegalizing community rights to resource useOrganizing the poor to protect common resourcesIntegrating indigenous knowledge on natural resources Problems:
Underdeveloped potential of community basic resourcesUnderdevelopment of countries
Underutilization of potential in local communities
Subjects:
Commerce → FinanceDefence → Military
Development → Development
Development → Potential
Economics → Resource utilization
Resources → Resources
Society → Communities
Society → Local
Type Classification:
C: Cross-sectoral strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
