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A time for rural recognition: can we achieve social justice?

A time for rural recognition: can we achieve social justice?. CARNEGIE COMMISSION FOR RURAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Kate Braithwaite – Director of Rural Programmes. Carnegie Commission. 26 members – practitioners, academics and policy makers

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A time for rural recognition: can we achieve social justice?

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  1. A time for rural recognition: can we achieve social justice? CARNEGIE COMMISSION FOR RURAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Kate Braithwaite – Director of Rural Programmes

  2. Carnegie Commission • 26 members – practitioners, academics and policy makers • All with a special concern for the welfare of rural communities • Met for the first time in July 2004 • Report will be published on 30th January

  3. WHAT WILL THE CARNEGIE COMMISSION FOR RURAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DO? • Listen and learn from rural communities and place their issues centre stage. Invest in solutions • Advocate for public policies that strengthen rural communities • Facilitate the exchange of ideas between policy makers, academics and rural communities • Work with partners to maximise the resource available for rural communities

  4. Evidence Gathering

  5. Public Sector Community Sector Private Sector Three sector influences on rural areas

  6. Rural Affordable Housing – 3 sector failure Public Sector Community Sector Private Sector

  7. Essential social welfare services – 3 sector failure Public Sector Community Sector Private Sector

  8. ESSENTIALS OF CONTEMPORARY RURAL LIFE Housing to buy or to rent Infrastructure of essential utilities Access to affordable and healthy food A meeting place Formal and informal education opportunities Employment opportunities Access to benefits Access to health care Security and public safety Opportunities for re-creation Social connections Civic and political rights Sustainable environment

  9. ASSET BASED RURAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT • Draws out strengths and successes of a community as its starting point for change (appreciative inquiry) • Assets inherent in social relationships (e.g. formal / informal associations and networks recognized as social capital • Community-driven in keeping with the principles and practice of participatory approaches • Directed towards sustainable economic development that is community-driven. • Relies on linkages between community and public and private sectors. • Fosters active citizenship engagement to ensure access to public goods and services, and therefore contributes to, strengthened civil society.

  10. ASSETS • Human (skills, talents, attributes) • Institutions • Financial (local wealth) • Environmental (landscape, geology, flora and fauna) • Cultural (history, tradition, arts) • Land and Buildings • Industry

  11. Traditional development and Asset Based Community Development • Needs, deficiencies, problems • Negative mental map • Client mentality • Resources go to rural agencies • Undermines local leadership • Dependency • Separates community • Capacities, assets, dreams, strengths • Optimistic mental map • Citizen participation • Minimizes bureaucracy, resources to community • Builds local leadership and confidence • Empowerment • Builds connections • Inside out

  12. DEFRA DCMS DTi ODPM ETC CRC Rural proofing Regional Development Agency Natural England Government Office Regional Rural Delivery Framework Regional Rural Action Plan Regional Spatial Strategy Regional Economic Strategy Regional Rural Affairs Forum LA LSP RCCs VCS Partnerships

  13. Requirements for securing social justice through asset building in rural areas • A whole community agreement about guiding values • An integrated view rather than sectoral division • Influence via community planning • Holistic analysis and co-ordination of rural services between rural communities, public and private agencies. • Access to IT – now an essential and liberating part of contemporary rural life • Investment in distinctive cultures as a factor in development • Rural perspectives in education • A radical re-examination of land tenure to allow for local people, including key workers, to live in their home areas • Re-mutualisation of other assets

  14. Rural Action Research Programme Carnegie UK Trust and Big Lottery Fund • Skills for Rural Community Development • Sustainable management of community assets • Community led service delivery • Needs of remote and peripheral areas • Building inclusive communities • Involvement in community planning

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