Treating
People and Communities as Assets
Inclusive
communities are productive communities. Every person and neighborhood deserves
the opportunity to participate actively in governmental decision-making, to
contribute to economic development through individual and cooperative
initiative, and to share in the fruits of prosperity and democracy. Global
Urban Development recognizes people as the world's most important resource;
therefore we develop and implement urban strategies that are participatory and
inclusive. Such strategies empower people to organize effectively to solve
their own problems, improve their environment, and contribute to the overall
productivity of their community, city, region, and nation. For example, Global
Urban Development addresses the dynamics of the "informal" sector and
explores ways to fully integrate every individual and family into the
international marketplace, with full citizenship, property rights, and
responsibilities. The adaptive methods people create and employ to conduct
business, produce goods, provide services, grow food, make clothes, build
housing, educate children, maintain health, and perform many other daily
activities clearly contribute to the well-being of society and should not be
excluded from the formal organization of economic and social life. It is far
better to welcome and encourage people's creative energy and hard-working
spirit by integrating everyone into mainstream institutions and ensuring that
they have the basic security of tenure and livelihood. All people will then
benefit much more completely from the output that flows from the many difficult
and challenging tasks they regularly perform. These same principles apply in
the world of the "formal" sector. The power of people to organize
cooperatively in their communities is vital for solving urban problems and
improving the quality of urban life. Global Urban Development emphasizes
partnership approaches as the most effective way to accomplish important urban
development goals, highlighting a wide variety of initiatives from around the
world where community groups have successfully collaborated with business,
government, and civic organizations.
This
committee is working on obtaining funding for GUD’s worldwide Community
Productivity Project (CPP) in partnership with the United Nations Development
Program (UNDP), the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat), and
Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI).
The CPP, consisting of Community Productivity Indicators and Inclusive
Economic Development Strategies, will be conducted in low-income urban
communities in
Treating
People and Communities as Assets Committee
Co-Chairs: Marlene Fernandes,
Jane Katz, and Patrick Wakely
Grace Akumu
Jobeda Ali
Besnik Aliaj
Jockin Arputham
Nefise Bazoglu
Lucelena Betancur
Iman Bibars
Edward
Blakely
Cid
Blanco Jr.
Susan
Blaustein
Albina du Boisrouvray
Andrew Boraine
Sandra Braunstein
Lance Buhl
Sundar Burra
Yves
Cabannes
JoAnn Carmin
Gregory Casagrande
Margaret
Caust
Chung
Ying Cheng
Gail
Christopher
William
Cobbett
Thais Corral
Claudia
Coulton
Forbes
Davidson
Hernando
Mary
Dianne
Dillon-Ridgley
Sarah
Dimson
Malika Djebli
Ladislau
Dowbor
Leonard
Duhl
Alain
Durand-Lasserve
Bruce
Ferguson
Neil
Fraser
Robert
Freling
Robert
Friedman
Alastair
Galpin
Santosh
Ghosh
Ernesto
Gil
John Gilderbloom
Peter
Hall
Andre Herzog
Eric Hoddersen
Pamela Hollie
Tim Honey
Daniel Inkoom
Patricia Irvin
Bianca Jagger
Kim Jawanda
Lorna Johnson
Calestous
Juma
Michael Kennedy
Thomas Kingsley
Vincent Kitio
Jeroen Klink
Vaishali Kushan
Vinay Lall
Claudia Laub
Jaime Lerner
Vivian Lin
Michael Lindfield
Stella Madrid
Gideon Mandara
Cecilia Martinez
Patricia McCarney
Harold McDougall
John McKoy
Jane McRae
Nhlanhla
Mjoli-Mncube
Eduardo
Moreno
Geoff
Mulgan
Geoffrey Nwaka
Marielza Oliveira
David
Painter
Terry Patinkin
Anthony Pell
Janice
Perlman
Glorianna
Pionati
Christine
Platt
Roy Priest
Jonas
Rabinovitch
Bill
Randolph
Jocelyn
Rugunda
Jane
Samuels
Wendy
Sarkissian
Wicaksono Sarosa
David Satterthwaite
Theo Schilderman
Elliott Sclar
Wandia Seaforth
Mona
Serageldin
Asad Shah
Molly O’Meara Sheehan
Michael Sherraden
Seymour Spilerman
Richard Stren
Richard Swett
Marta Tellado
Kees Van Der Ree
Irene Vance
Stephen Walsh
Emiel Wegelin
Mark Weinheimer
Marc Weiss
Edmundo Werna
Gina Whitehill-Baziuk
Roger Williams
Mark Willis
Erna Witoelar
Muhammad Yunus
Robert Zdenek
Erla Zwingle