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: Lance Buhl, Marlene Fernandes, and Patrick Wakely
Besnik Aliaj
Jockin
Arputham
Nefise
Bazoglu
Lucelena Betancur
Edward Blakely
Susan Blaustein
Albina du Boisrouvray
Andrew Boraine
Sandra Braunstein
Sundar Burra
Yves Cabannes
JoAnn Carmin
Gregory Casagrande
Margaret Caust
Chung Ying Cheng
Gail Christopher
William Cobbett
Claudia Coulton
Forbes Davidson
Hernando
Mary del Carmen Diaz Amador
Malika Djebli
Leonard Duhl
Alain Durand-Lasserve
Bruce Ferguson
Robert Friedman
Santosh Ghosh
Ernesto Gil
John Gilderbloom
Peter Hall
Andre Herzog
Eric
Hoddersen
Pamela
Hollie
Tim
Honey
Daniel
Inkoom
Patricia
Irvin
Monika
Jaeckel
Bianca
Jagger
Kim Jawanda
Lorna Johnson
Jane Katz
Thomas Kingsley
Vincent
Kitio
Jeroen Klink
Vinay
Lall
Claudia
Laub
Vivian
Lin
Michael Lindfield
Stella Madrid
Harold
McDougall
John McKoy
Nhlanhla Mjoli-Mncube
Eduardo Moreno
Geoff Mulgan
Geoffrey Nwaka
David Painter
Terry Patinkin
Anthony Pell
Janice Perlman
Glorianna Pionati
Roy Priest
Jonas Rabinovitch
Bill Randolph
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
Marta Tellado
Kees Van Der Ree
Stephen Walsh
Emiel
Wegelin
Mark
Weinheimer
Marc Weiss
Gina
Whitehill-Baziuk
Mark Willis
Erna Witoelar
Muhammad
Yunus
Robert
Zdenek
Erla
Zwingle