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Building an Intercultural & Socially Inclusive Society through Community Development

Building an Intercultural & Socially Inclusive Society through Community Development. Reginald Okoflex Inya New Communities Partnership. Community Development. Giving people control over the conditions that impact on their lives. Community development empowers & enables ethnic minorities.

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Building an Intercultural & Socially Inclusive Society through Community Development

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  1. Building an Intercultural & Socially Inclusive Society through Community Development Reginald Okoflex Inya New Communities Partnership

  2. Community Development • Giving people control over the conditions that impact on their lives. • Community development empowers & enables ethnic minorities

  3. Intercultural Dialogue • Acknowledging difference between individuals & cultures • Intercultural dialogue leads to effective dialogue

  4. Contribution of Community Development to Creating an Intercultural Dialogue • Increasingly mobilised & interdependent world requires respectful dialogue at national, community & individual levels

  5. Community Development Creating an Intercultural Society • Government cutting back on equality establishments at critical point in building community infrastructure • Build capacity & not reduce capacity at local level to encourage cross cultural dialogue

  6. Challenges • Struggle for identity Lack of recognition by host society

  7. Challenges • Achieving social inclusion & integration of all Slow pace of roll out of anti racism initiatives Developing local & regional foras Gaps in service provider provision

  8. Challenges • Immigrants participating in policy making Lack of real Government commitment to empower ethnic led groups Overcoming sense of disempowerment

  9. Challenges • Resourcing immigrant led organisations Implications at community level of reduction in training budgets

  10. Other Challenges • One sided immigration debate • Gate keeping • Burn out amongst community activists

  11. A True Reality –The Danger of Lack of Leadership and Transparency!!! New Communities will not be part of any campaign to forget the great work of the elderly which includes migrants!

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