What is the Building Resilient Communities Theme about anyway?

1. What is the Building Resilient Communities Theme about anyway? Learning Forum - 14 July 2015 David, Colleen and Tanya

2. What is the building resilient community theme about? • Not about a new paradigm; • Has become popular buzz word; be careful of imposing construct on others • What does it mean to you? • What does it mean within your world view?

3. Examples of community resilience? Three of the movies we use in the BRC course: • Evergreen Island, Bougainville, PNG Cooper mine, blockade, civil war, guns, fuel from coconuts • Village of Versailles, Vietnamese Community, New Orleans Former “boat people”, vegetable farmers, recovery after Katrina, fought dump site near by • Favela Rising Drugs and violence as only options for youth, drum and dance groups, respect and contribution to community through high energy of youth; leader paralyzed but fights back

4. For some world views: Human Material Spiritual

5. Dagara concept of community resilience Kanyir • (patience and courage) Longta • (belongingness) Nolong • (unity and togetherness) Challenges inevitable -- no lamenting -- carry-on Faith will live well and coexist with ecosystem

6. Building Community Resilience with The Hand of Resilience Revitalizing culture and spirituality Healing the ecosystem Enhancing sustainable livelihoods Remembering strengths of women and men Taking actions to overcome challenges

7. Conceptual Model of community resilience

8. Shocks, risks, threats, vulnerabilities Endowments, resources Trait? Process? Outcome? System Characteristic? Strengths, assets, capabilities

9. Seen and unseen Air Sun Moon water land ecosystem

10. Seen and unseen Air Sun Moon Risks Culture SENSE OF COMMUNITY Endowments Context Individual and collective capabilities water land ecosystem

11. Seen and unseen Air Sun Moon Risks 1-appreciate indigenous knowledge 3 – seek appropriate external knowledge SENSE OF COMMUNITY 2 - be critical 4 – ensure external knowledge fits with world view Individual and collective capabilities water land ecosystem

12. Seen and unseen Air Sun Moon Risks Healthy, sustainable, resilient community Changing consciousness Creating alternatives Holding actions Status-quo, relatively unchanged Community with dysfunction Capabilities water land ecosystem

13. Seen and unseen Air Sun Moon Risks Healthy, sustainable, resilient community Status-quo, relatively unchanged SENSE OF COMMUNITY Endowments Community with dysfunction Capabilities water land ecosystem

14. Community resilience is about working with alternative sources of power so communities can respond to acute and chronic stressors and disturbances and grow stronger on the path to achieving the well-being they desire, while healing their ecosystem for future generations.

15. Courses • Building Resilient Communities (within Diploma 2015 and …) • Building on Local and Indigenous Knowledge for Community Resilience Spring 2016 and … • Community Driven Impact Assessment Spring 2016 and … • Community Transformation and Peace Building and CDIA – Shining Stone Community Action, China 2016 • Food Justice (no date yet) • Women and Food Sovereignty in Latin America • Women, Food Security and Sovereignty in Africa • Building on Local and Indigenous Knowledge for Community Resilience – PanAfrican 2016

16. Action Research / Innovations • Producer –led Food Value Chains and Indigenous Resilience • Documenting Indigenous Strategies for Community Resilience from across the African continent • Innovation for Impact CDIA and ABCD: supporting action research and comparing impact with ABCD grads from East Africa and IWCL grads from Canada • Red Deer Friendship Centre, CDIA and ABCD action research with grads • East Side Vancouver, CDIA process with IWCL mentor

17. Publications in the Works • Community Health Impact Assessment and Asset-based Community Development: an innovative path to community well-being (Book Chapter) by Colleen Cameron and Tanya Wasacase • Community Health Impact Assessment and Asset-based Community Development: an innovative path to community well-being (Poster for Blackpool Conference) by Colleen Cameron and Tanya Wasacase • Illuminating Community Resilience: insights from an exploration with Dagara Communities in Ghana by David Fletcher • Using cultural arts methods for educating on food justice and food sovereignty (Book Chapter) Deborah Barndt and Selam Tecla • Internal discussion paper: combining CDIA and ABCD (Colleen and Tanya) • Internal discussion paper: what is community resilience? (David, Colleen and Tanya)

18. ASIA Connections with Adivasi groups in India Adivasi Academy, Aga Khan Rural Development and Livelihoods Programme, livelihoods, furniture and non-timber forest products Udaipur based adivasi and widows rights organization EktaParishad, land rights Timbutu Collective, land reclamation and regeneration AMERICAS Indigenous communities in Americas Bart’s organization in Belize Red Deer Friendship Center East Side Vancouver Paqtn’kek / Mi’kmaw Male Youth Rama First Nation Pictou Landing African Nova Scotian Community (Guysborough and Africville) IWCL participants and graduates Capacity Building – Community of Learning and Practice  • Start building the constituency for change with BRC, CDHIA, BLIK, and Food Justice graduates plus … AFRICA • CIKOD, Ghana • AGOPAP Organic Growers, Ghana • Friends of the Earth, Nigeria • MELCA, Ethiopia • Kulivini Trust, Kenya • Prometra, Uganda • Muonde Trust, Zimbabwe • SAEDP, Zimbabwe • Women for Change, Zambia • Mviwata, Tanzania • ICE, Kenya • Kakalu Healers, South Africa

19. Questions? • What does BRC mean to you and how does it connect with your work • What burning questions do you need answered if you are to communicate with others about this theme? Thank you !