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Community building NATIONAL NETWORk

A NATIONAL LEADERSHIP NETwork of community builders
Getting Governments to take Community Building Seriously


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Following the National Symposium on Community Building: Critical Voices, Alternative Strategies on 19th June 2007, a national network of community builders has been formed to influence governments to take community building seriously.

The five key recommendations of the Symposium were:

  • Community builders need to influence government policy and agendas in a pro-active way, not wait for governments to lead. A network of community builders that is independent of government is needed for this task.
     
  • Funding reform is critical - governments should overhaul their funding methods to enable communities and projects to act with more autonomy and flexibility, with longer time frames, and with access to pooled funds from various programs and jurisdictions.
     
  • Regulatory reform is urgent - governments should overhaul their regulatory and reporting requirements for community building activities to ease the regulatory burden.
     
  • Measuring community building is important - community builders should develop appropriate ways of measuring their achievements through effective evaluation methods, not wait for governments to impose these from without.
     
  • Empowerment and devolution are essential for community building - governments should enable community strengthening and social capital development, not control its form or dictate its direction.

The network aims to influence the policy agenda in these directions and support good community building. It will connect community leaders, practitioners, researchers, policy makers, social entrepreneurs and workers in community agencies who are interested in authentic community building work.

Sue Smyllie, President of Self Help Queensland, is Convenor of the network.

It operates nationally, hosted by the Centre for Civil Society. As in all projects of the Centre, a local focus will be developed through a Contact in each federal electorate, with maximum use of online communications. Papers, project reports, case studies of local and overseas innovations, and advocacy progress will be posted online and shared.

There is no cost for participation in the Network.

CLICK HERE for details of our national conference Funding Communities: New Vision, New Agenda. Melbourne, 26-27 May 2008.

Details on the 2007 Community Building: Critical Voices, Alternative Strategies Symposium are available.

Register to Participate Here

Further information:

Vern Hughes
0425 722 890
network@civilsociety.org.au

 
 

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