Community Organisation Sample Clauses

Community Organisation. Selected agencies will be responsible for community mobilisation, building trust and gain confidence of urban poor to form self help groups and take collective actions at the slum level. ROs will work closely with women and facilitate the processes of forming self help groups and form area and city level federations.

Community Organisation. Development, maintenance and evaluation of community programs;

Community Organisation. The capacity of a community involved in an environmental dispute to effectively organise and advocate their interests was one important condition which influenced both access to a structured mediation process and the outcome of that process was. An initial function of effective community organisation is that it may help facilitate access to a mediation process. If a community suffering pollution is to proceed beyond the indifference, denial or intimidation from industry and government agencies that greets many initial environmental claims, a sophisticated degree of organisation and campaign skills may be necessary to raise the profile of their case. For example, in the PŒtYV RŒßŒ case, community organisation and strategic planning was undertaken in conjunction with several NGOs. Subsequent to this a public campaign was conducted, raising the profile of the case and finally prompting the intervention of the National Environment Minister who ordered the initiation of a mediation process. In this case the COMFOVtUYM Oƒ WŒFt9 VUCtUMF formed by community representatives and NGO workers provided an important vehicle for communication of environmental and community concerns to the mass media and government agencies. A similar process was evident in the XŒßY LŒþUF IMdOM9FUŒ case, where formation of the community forum XMPL provided a vehicle for the clarification of community demands and their communication to the mass media, government agencies and industry. In this case, the community of fishpond farmers was forced to undertake extensive lobbying of district, provincial and finally national government representatives before a mediation process was finally undertaken to resolve the dispute. Effective community organisation through, for example, the creation of representative forums also served in these case studies to clarify internal decision- making within a community and enabled more effective representation of community interests during the mediation process. In both the XLI and the PŒtYV RŒßŒ cases, the intervention of non- government organisations skilled in advocacy and organisation was critical to the ability of each community to effectively organise and advocate their interests. Similar trends are evident in some of the other environmental mediation cases reviewed in chapter 4. In the TŒþŒk RUV9V case, for instance, a community boycott appeared to influence the willingness of the polluting industries to negotiate. Increased community pressure and the blo...