Phase 3: Aided Self Development

Aided organisational development


Summary output

The local community is improving its ability to organise to address local needs

Summary actions

Community undertakes additional activities to make itself more accountable in response to its members needs. Role-players provide capacity building and support to improve the organisational capacity of community.

Key decisions


 * What additional issues can the community organise themselves around?


 * How can the community organise itself to address more needs, and be more accountable to its members?


 * What support can external role-players provide the community to improve its organisational capabilities?


 * Who pays for the support to local community organisations?

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Aided local resource mobilisation


Output

Households are using local resources to build their own houses.



Summary actions

Households save money and provide each other micro loans to build houses and organised communities draw on local skills to help with housing development.

Key decisions


 * Are people expected to save for housing, how much do they save and how are savings collected and managed?


 * What skills are available in the community and how can these local skills be used?


 * What role do external role-players (e.g. government, employers, etc. ) play in supporting people to mobilise local resources?

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Aided local tenure administration


Output Households have secure tenure, based on locally agreed principles, and there are clear rules in place for how to adminsiter this tenure (eg. transfer tenure rights, deal with defaulters, manage home improvements, etc)



Summary actions

The community and/or the municipality put in lace a mechanism to maintain local tenure. Households make use of the locally administered tenure system to keep their tenure records up to date.

Key decisions


 * What rights and responsibilities does the local tenure provide to households?


 * What roles and responibilites does the municipality play in this tenure system (Is the tenure administrered by the community, municipality, some other structure ofr a combinaiton)?

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Aided self build


Output

Households are building their own houses, with or without external support.



Summary actions

Households arrange for the building of their own houses on land allocated to them. The external role-players (e.g. government) provides technical, financial, organisational, etc support to households and organised groups to help them to build their own houses.

Key decisions


 * What type of house will households build? (What will the houses look like, what material will be used etc.)


 * How will households build their houses?


 * What role do outside role-players (e.g. government, employers, etc) play in supporting people to build their own houses?


 * Who will pay for this support?

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Aided self growing


Output Households who want to grow and/or rear food on their plot, in their block or on land identified in the neighbourhood for such a purpose for self consumption and/or for sale.



Summary actions

Members of households who are interested, arrange for the production of food on land identified for that purpose in their house, plot, block and neighbourhood scale. The role-players (like government, employers, etc.) support households to grow their own food.

Key decisions


 * Who will grow food?


 * Where will food be grown?


 * At what scale will the growing occur? (household, block, neighbourhood)


 * What support will households/ growers get?


 * Who will pay for the support?

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Aided self work


Output Households who want to are undertaking running local businesses from home, within the block or from land identified in the neighbourhood for that purpose.



Summary actions

Members of households who are interested start and continue to manage businesses, on land that is within the plot block and or on a neighbourhood scale, through small businesses selling and providing services to local and passing clients. Role-players (like government, employers, etc.) support households to start businesses for economic growth and activity.

Key decisions


 * Who will run small businesses?


 * Where will small businesses be located?


 * What support will small businesses receive?


 * Who will pay for this support?

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Aided health and safety


Output People live in a safe and healthy environment.



Summary actions

Role-players encourage participation so households have sense of ownership and belonging. there is an incorporation defensible space principles; and the use of basic organisation to build community watch.

Key decisions


 * How can spatial layout support health and safety?


 * What can the organised local community do to promote health and safety?


 * What support can outsiders provide to promote health and safety?

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Financing aided support


Output Finance is secured for the provision of aided support and it is also secured for self support.



Summary actions

The State provides finance for support to building, growing and working and the households secure finance for their own self development

Key decisions


 * What support will be provided by whom?


 * How will this support be financed?

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