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| Enabling Framework for Community Regeneration |
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| Background Research | |
| The work of a number of international aid and sustainable development agencies has informed our enabling framework. We hope to build upon these existing methodologies and explore their application to the Indonesian context. | |
| Livelihoods Concept | ||
| http://www.livelihoods.org/ | ||
At the core of our framewok is the livelihoods concept adopted by the United Nations Development Program, the UK Department for International Development and a number of other international relief organizations. It set-out a holistic, people-centered approach to development that “ integrates physical well-being, education, access to technology, information and the state of the environment as key aspects in the ability of poor or marginalized people to achieve sustainable livelihoods,” (Fischer). A key component of the framework is people’s access to the assets/capital (natural, social, human physical and financial), that enable them to support themselves and their families. According to this model, a community's resources can be analysed in terms of an "asset pentagon" that helps indicate areas to be enhanced.
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"A livelihood comprises the capabilities, assets and activities required for a means of living. A livelihood is sustainable when it can cope with and recover from stresses and shocks and maintain or enhance its capabilities and assets both now and in the future, while not undermining the natural resource base” > >>>Chambers and Conway (1992) |
Sustainable Settlements Charrette: Rethinking Encampments for Refugees and Displaced Populations |
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In February of 2002, the Rocky Mountain Institute hosted the Sustainable Settlements Charrette to generate ideas for "a settlement design methodology and template and template for quickly helping displaced people -- in short, a primer for aid workers." The report from this charrette contains a number of innovative solutions that show the creativity generated by thinking about a problem holistically. |
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| "Design is at the center of many refugee camp problems, but the answer might not simply be to hire new designers. Some of the issues go far beyond poor communications about projects shared by aid agencies. There are endless stories from refugee camps where well-meaning aid organizations have provided advanced technological devices, the best foodstuffs, and other new, expensive materials that simply do not match the economic, educational, cultural, and geographic realities of the situation. Rather, Dr. Rasmussen feels strongly that such situations call for an overlapping integration of players from diverse backgrounds. He thinks the sustainability community's approach of understanding an entire system before attempting a “solution, ” might be the appropriate approach in refugee settlements." | ||
