Communities. 6.1 Ensuring the integration of entities within their territories
Communities. We strengthen communities by enhancing their ability to support families.
Communities. Under the supervision of a CEA, each community shall set up a Management Committee to oversee the activities under Part 1 of the Project. The Community Management Committee shall: (i) identify and mobilize members of the community to operate as Nutrition Aides; (ii) allocate appropriate sites for Nutrition Aides to conduct monthly growth promotion activities and provide other support, as necessary; and (iii) strengthen its capacity to analyze and respond to local nutrition problems.
Communities. 1. CBAs may give neighborhoods a more meaningful role in the development process than the opportunities ULURP provides for public participation. Those who champion CBAs on behalf of local communities articulate several justifications for the agreements. First, they argue that the City’s normal land use procedures often fail to ensure that the concerns of the neighborhood most affected by the proposed development are considered and adequately addressed.250 They argue that the representatives of the neighborhood -- the community board, the borough president, and City Council members -- are not effective in advocating for the community. They assert that community boards are given few resources and little training to evaluate development proposals.251 They note that members serve at the pleasure of borough 246 Id. at 17. 247 Id. at 20-26. 248 Id. at 21. 249 Id. at 44. 250 More generally, communities in many cities have turned the CBAs out of frustration with the lack of meaningful opportunities for communities to participate in the planning and design of federal urban renewal projects, community economic development programs, and land use decisions more generally. See, e.g., Ho, supra note 3, at 11–19. 251 See, e.g., Xxxxx Xxxxx, Issue of the Week: Community-Based Planning, GOTHAM GAZETTE, Mar. 25, 2002, xxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/iotw/communityboards/; Xxxxx Xxxxxxx, Report Finds Disparity in City Aid to Community Boards, N.Y. TIMES, June 20, 2005, at B2; Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx, Back of Bloomy! Rally at City Hall Rips Community Board Cuts, N.Y. DAILY NEWS, June 10, 2009, at 29; Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Cutting Back on Democracy, GOTHAM GAZETTE, Mar. 16, 2009, xxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/article/fea/20090316/202/2854. presidents, who sometimes are said to replace members because of the members’ views.252 The community boards’ recommendations are advisory only, and may be ignored by the borough presidents, City Planning Commission, City Council and Mayor.253 Elected officials may, of course, disregard a community board’s recommendations for appropriate reasons, such as the City’s need for a particular development. But community members also may fear that their elected officials may disregard the community’s concerns for reasons the community may find more troubling, such as the role developers’ contributions may play in financing political campaigns.254 One of the tools designed to give neighborhoods more power in the land use process -- community based plans sanctioned by ...
Communities a) Develop new outreach activities with and for communities living in Farnham, Haslemere, Godalming and Cranleigh
Communities. [Xxxxxxx: facilitator of DIY bio activities in Slovenia] Xxxxxxx says that the most important thing of the community is that you have at least one person that is passionate about the idea, that community is following. That passion has to be transferred to new members. Their meetings must be on the regular basis, so people know when to find you. He also says that an important lesson learnt is to give communities freedom about the program they want to do. “Community has to feel welcomed at your institution, which means that they have access to the kitchen, know the people who works there and attend your events.” Xxxxxxx For example on the “Rover to Mars” set of workshops (where kids built a rover from scratch by kids, xxxx://xxxxxxxx.xxx/en/dogodki/friday-academy-next-stop-mars/), they included a lot of ideas that arrived from participants. The kids identified themself with Rover so much, that they asked the facilitators whether they could come to Kersnikova once per week and continue to upgrade the Rover. They met every Tuesday and KI provided the infrastructure with all of the materials, tools and professional help that they needed. They have freedom on what they will do, but Xxxxxxxx also tries to inspire them with art pieces. They finished the “Rover”, but they decided to continue, and in the last couple of months of this interview they have been building a quadcopter from scratch. [Xxxxxxxx: biodesign citizen science projects responsible in París] To promote specific communities, they try to invite people that they know they share same values, and organise networking activities during the events so they can connect easily. For specific events they even create a email group/mailing list or a Facebook group so people can still be in touch. The strategy to sustain a community is much more difficult because people are busy. They simply care for their Skype of Facebook channels and make sure everybody can use them every time they want. So in a way, she thinks the community must be self-sustainable, but it helps to invite again and again the same people to promote the contact among them. [Xxxx: researcher in biodesign, DIY bio educational activities in Geneva] Although he is not very experienced in working with communities, he proposes to have a community manager that give participants continuous feedback, what basically costs money. He also points out a very fundamental issue: this work often is incompatible with standard family life. For example, if you do ...
Communities. Getting a good coordinated team to work is never an easy task. Moreover, teams in citizen science projects have to deal with tens, hundreds or even thousands of people that participate. This might be an exhausting task but also incredibly rewarding. In this section, the interviewees provide their experience to make the team work together: • Citizen science means teamwork, intersectional and on many occasions it requires a long-term view. o A team means diversity of people and citizen science projects promote it even more. Being aware that everybody has their own concerns and motivations and knowing them to integrate them helps to create a nice working atmosphere. o Work must be felt as useful for everybody, at least in the long term. o It is good to have an “onboard document” in case somebody new comes to the team. “The less you pressure people, the most they work. I hardly had problems with people working too little, but I had problems with people working too much”. Xxxx • Having a team that love what they do and that like to work together is essential. Getting it is complex and it has a bit of magic but there are things that help: o Paying the team as much as possible helps. o Giving responsibility and freedom to act to everybody in the team seems to be very advisable by the majority of the interviewees. o Creativity should be encouraged. Integrate suggestions and ideas of everybody of the team. Having co-created projects help to share vision and having a cohesive team. o Non-pressing people works for some teams. People working too much can cause problems. o Providing interesting articles about the theme or event/workshop to the team as food for thought. o Talking about successes and failures in past events helps to set a good background within a team, so to build upon it. Documenting these is very advisable. o Creating a good atmosphere requires work: ▪ Giving value to other’s time is important: being on time matters. Meeting protocols help: “no agenda, no meeting”, for example. ▪ A good practice is to spend a lot of time with mentors and too often have a relaxed non-formal event to discuss other things than workshops, so one can communicate openly and all of the work is more transparent. Sharing all the information with the team promotes transparency and trust. ▪ A good practice might be to become friends with your team. When you know someone personally, you also care more for them. ▪ Sharing a place where problems can become jokes and one can laugh ev...
Communities. [Xxxxxxxxx: artistic director of citizen laboratory in Madrid] According to Xxxxxxxxx the creation of a work team in Medialab happens through the call for projects and the mediation team eases some participation diversity. Once they have built the first prototype, it is up to them to continue so the sustainability of the groups really depends on its members. Mediation projects are the ones more prone to be sustainable since there is a paid person working in Medialab. Other workgroups continue thanks to the persistence of specific volunteer individuals. This is the case of Wikisfera, leaded and sustained by Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, a workgroup that edits wikipedia. They organise some events call editatonas. These specific events nourishes the workgroup and vice versa. Institutions tend to focus on producing events, but it is interesting the model where events are designed to nourish more stable processes. One factor that helps a community to be sustainable is having a project that has an impact. This is the case of Autofabricantes, that creates cheap prosthesis for children. An important thing to say is that workgroups are not isolated, but they work in a place where other work groups operate what sometimes make direct interactions happen. An if they are part of something bigger, this is a motivation to make people involved and therefore their community continues. [Xxxxx: coordinator of citizen science programs in Brussels] The RBINS has relation with some local communities of citizen scientists active in the park nearby (willing to improve water management in Brussels neighbourhoods or reviving some wild lands and fighting against real estate constructions for example). The RBINS is an adviser to them identifying the biodiversity present and providing guidance in conformation to the National biodiversity strategy. The benefits for RBINS are clear: RBINS has gained more visibility towards the neighbourhoods as biodiversity safeguard, and it has promoted more involvement into the local concerns. Among the communities in link with the institute there are members that share a tool dispersed all over Belgium and they are forming a network (for example, the schools equipped with XperiBird nest boxes that reports their observations through camera). These are sustained by project manager that sends back information and organises events taylored for them (teachers, etc). Other communities have been collaborating for a long time with researchers of the institute in arachn...
Communities. 6This provision shall apply only among Parties that are Members of the WTO or GATT.
Communities. Should one or more share be jointly held by one or several persons, such co-owners shall be bound to appoint a single attorney-in-fact for all of them to act as a single shareholder toward the company.
