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Key EfS LinksCommunity EducationABCD Training Group – ABCD Principles: 12 Guiding Principles for Community EngagementBuilding Communities from the Inside Out. Common Ground: Places, People and Parish MapsMaking a Parish Map is about creating a community expression of values, and about beginning to assert ideas for involvement, it is about taking the place in your own hands. Community Toolbox: Bringing Solutions to LightOur goal is to support your work in promoting community health and development. The Tool Box provides over 6,000 pages of practical skill-building information on over 250 different topics. Topic sections include step-by-step instruction, examples, check-lists, and related resources. Education for Sustainable Development ToolkitThe ESD Toolkit is an easy-to-use manual for individuals and organizations from both the education and community sectors. This resource addresses the potentially powerful alliance of school systems and communities working together to reach local sustainability goals. Together they can reorient existing curricula to create locally relevant and culturally appropriate education. From Clients to Citizens: Asset-Based Community Development as a Strategy for Community-Driven DevelopmentAsset-based community development (ABCD) is presented as an alternative to needs-based approaches to development. ICLEI - Local Governments for SustainabilityICLEI is an international association of local governments and national and regional local government organizations that have made a commitment to sustainable development. Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC): EducationDeveloping a new generation of leaders through school-based programs linked to the community. NSW Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC): Education: Community and council resourcesThis site provides information about NSW community education programs. Sustainable Communities Network (SCN)Linking citizens to resources and to one another to create healthy, vital, sustainable communities. The Coastal CRC: Citizen ScienceCitizen science is a participatory process for including all sectors of society - general public, government and industry - in the development and conduct of public-interest research in order to bridge the gaps between science and the community and between scientific research and policy, decision-making and planning. The World Bank Group: Participation and Civic EngagementThe Participation and Civic Engagement Group of the Social Development Department promotes the participation of people and their organizations to influence institutions, policies and processes for equitable and sustainable development. The World Bank Group: Community Driven DevelopmentPoor and marginalized people have often been viewed as the target of poverty reduction efforts. Community Driven Development (CDD) approaches turn this perception on its head, and treat poor people and their institutions as assets and partners in the search for sustainable solutions to development challenges. The World Bank Group: World Bank Institute: LearningThe World Bank Institute is the capacity development arm of the World Bank, and helps countries share and apply global and local knowledge to meet development challenges. WBI's capacity development programs are designed not only to build skills among groups of individuals involved in performing tasks, but also to strengthen the organizations in which they work, and the sociopolitical environment in which they operate. UNESCO: Education for Sustainable Development ToolkitThe Education for Sustainable Development Toolkit seeks to help schools and communities develop a process for creating locally relevant and culturally appropriate education. This Toolkit is based on the idea that communities and educational systems need to dovetail their sustainability efforts. Ideally, local educational systems can reorient existing curriculums to reinforce local sustainability goals. US Environmental Protection Agency - Community Based Environmental Protection (CBEP)CBEP is a new approach to environmental protection. |
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