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We are always looking for ways to spread learning from experience. Developing and sharing a range of tools is one way of doing this and is the focus of this section of the website. The tools are a mixture. Some are about:
- Practical ways of building neigbourhood and community connections - such as how to run a street BBQ
- Handy hints about communities leading their own development - such as the lessons learned from Ora'anga Kopapa Matutu - By Us, for Us
- Ways of strengthening approaches to community-led development - such as questions to test the Community-Led Development Framework
There are several tools being developed at the moment and ideas being tested. We welcome tools and suggestions from you. |
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Organiser's Workbook - moving your neighbourhood from good to great! |
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Before you can develop your community's plan, it's important to ensure that as many people as possible who have a stake in your neighborhood, are engaged and at the table, ready to help design that plan.
That's what this book is about. It's an easy to follow guidebook full of practical tools to help you and your neighbors organise. The lessons, tips, and stories found in this workbook will help you as you prepare for comprehensive, quality-of-life planning in your community.
Download this comprehensive (102 pages) resource from the Indianapolis Neighbourhood Resource Centre as a PDF.
NB: Its a very large file (11MB) so may take some time to download. |
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Sustainable Neighbourhood Map |
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 Sustainable Neighbourhood Map
The Hothouse is a concept to capture, consolidate and disseminate learning and best practice, within Waitakere City. Its aim is supporting and growing sustainable neighbourhoods and community development in Waitakere. This concept was initiated through the community sector meetings of the Waitakere City Council's Wellbeing Collaboration Project.
They say "Everybody is the Hothouse, from the 'broker' dreaming up ideas to empower the community, to the guy across the road that always gives you grapefruit. Imagine the netting that protects gardens, strong and flexible, with holes to let the light in, covering all levels of the garden."
The Hothouse has produced this generic 'sustainable neighbourhood' map and case studies demonstrating how it can look for different members of the community. You are welcome to download it and use it to think of how your neighbourhood can become more collaborative and sustainable.
Posted November 2009
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A guide - How to plan your street BBQ |
A new and wonderful resource has been produced as a group effort by residents of Massey, Waitakere. This is a simple and comprehensive guide on how to plan your street BBQ, and is based on practical experience. You can download the guide as a PDF How to Plan your Street BBQ.
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Learnings from Pacific Community Organisations and the Auckland District Health Board |
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The Ora’anga Kopapa Matutu provided some wonderful, and powerful, learnings from both the Pacific Community Organisations as well as the Auckland District Health Board.
Community ownership is crucial for success, as are strong relationships both within the community, and between the community and involved organisations.
Some initial observations are:
- Community ownership is crucial from the beginning for the initiative to be effective, in order to:
- Ensure the strong involvement of those most affected
- Produce tangible results for the individuals, families, community and the health authorities
- Provide health and fitness activities that are sustainable
- It is essential to strengthen existing active local community connections, relationships, groups and organisations, to ensure local leadership and the involvement of the most relevant people
- By actively and carefully listening to each other and agreeing common points for development, we can stop ‘talking past each other’ and build a base for a shared development that works with each other’s strengths
- Adapting to the developments as they occur keeps the initiative relevant and flexible. It builds shared ownership, trust and results and provides a basis for further developments. It opens doors rather than putting up walls
Separate lessons included:
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Pacific Community Organisations Group
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Auckland District Health Board Group
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- Redefining themselves as active leaders on health issues contributed significantly to community ownership of the initiative
- It was crucial for local Pacific organisations to count the strengths of their community instead of being defined from the outside by the deficits
- Whole family involvement across the generations was essential and achieved
- Informal leaders with high influence such as Mama Nicholls are vital
- Tamaki Pacific peoples named the initiative. This ensured a name that was full of meaning, rather than staying with the ADHB programme name of Healthy Village Action Zones
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- The ADHB moved from thinking about ‘delivering a programme’ to a ‘deprived area’, to developing clarity about the core principles and then listening to the wisdom and expertise of the local community
- The ADHB developed more of a partnership in action. This was graphically reflected in the equal numbers of community members and District Health Board staff being the ‘team’ to receive a national Healthy Innovation Award in 2008. All other possible award teams were from the government delivery organisation only.
- The ADHB’s Pacific Advisory Committee has identified the lessons learned from the approach of this initiative. This in turn has contributed to the Board’s new neighbourhood-based focus as a key policy drive for primary and public health care
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