strategy
Supporting community-based organizations
Description:
A Community-Based Organization (CBO)is a non-formal organization (usually without formal government recognition) created and controlled by the beneficiaries themselves for their own benefit, i.e. the organization's target population is resident within the community. Such groups often form federations, associations or regional cooperatives which function to service, support, follow-up or provide political representation. Membership groups can evolve into a subset of support/service NGOs.A Beneficiary-Owned Organization (BOO) is an inter-village, non-formal organization appropriate for a low level partnership based on indirect service delivery where development and sustainability are not the focus.
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 support for community-based people's organizations, especially farmers and pastoralists. Facilitates:
Conserving nature communallyInstigating community resources managementSupporting community based programmes for the poorImproving community-based rehabilitation facilitiesUndertaking local infrastructure development projectsStrengthening community-based land resource protectionEstablishing network of community based learning centresDeveloping community-based environmental information systems Values:
CommunityAnticommunity Subjects:
Society → CommunitiesType Classification:
D: Detailed strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
