strategy
Undertaking community renewal
Synonyms:
Renewing communitiesAccelerating systematic local rehabilitation
Revitalizing communities
Reversing community decline
Reversing community deterioration
Implementation:
The Atlanta Project (TAP), started in 1991, was created with the aim of bringing the local people and community agencies together and co-ordinating efforts to help Atlanta's poorest communities gain access to the resources they need to solve the problems that most concern them. TAP is organised around "clusters," some 20 neighbourhoods in which the greatest numbers of teen pregnancies, single parent families and people in poverty live. In each cluster local residents with experience in community service are employed by the project as "cluster-co-ordinators," who work with locally formed steering committees comprising residents, service providers and school, religious and business leaders who live in the cluster. Each committee has a specific focus: economic development, housing, health, education; bringing together a combination of volunteers and professionals. To date, the approach has succeeded in engendering hundreds of community projects within cluster areas, with the project now being promoted through the America Project as a model for other cities to copy.
Narrower:
Designing community rehabilitation planRenewing local economyDeveloping urban ecovillagesEncouraging educational renewalEnabling grassroots effectivenessCommissioning community servicesChanging anti-community attitudesRevitalizing community structuresExpanding community support servicesEstablishing basic community standardsOpening community service opportunitiesImproving community service performanceEstablishing ongoing community maintenanceIncreasing employment alternatives in small communitiesIncreasing employment alternatives in small communitiesRebuilding public buildings and streets Constrained by:
Limiting vision of community future Facilitates:
Awakening community rural greatness Facilitated by:
Valuing local communitiesDeveloping social bankingProviding community servicesFacilitating urban regenerationDemonstrating community serviceDeveloping awareness of community servicesProviding alternative to traditional community patternsRehearsing common storyDesigning model communitiesMonitoring community declineAccepting community dependencyRecontextualizing community rolesRecontextualizing community roles Organizations:
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations International Labour Organization United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization World Health Organization Movement for a Better World United Nations Children's Fund United Nations Population Fund Institute of Cultural Affairs International Interchild ISAR - Initiative for Social Action and Renewal in Eurasia Initiative for Social Action and Renewal in Eurasia Subjects:
Society → CommunitiesSociety → Local
Health Care → Rehabilitation
Informatics, Classification → Classification
Conservation → Restoration
Type Classification:
B: Basic universal strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
