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Asset Based Community Development
PresentationABCDThe 10th may 2010Armenia visit
Dutch ABCD-origin in quarter Delfshaven 2003
• 6.200 inhabitants• Over 56 % of houses owned by Woonbron
(so we make or break development-initiatives)(and we make or break coalition-perspectives)
• Low incomes, high unemployment rate• Few chances for development• Stimulates lack of confidence in environment
and in institutions
Asset-Based (physical assets)
• Houses that are not taken care of and in which investments do not make profit
• Houses and shops stay empty• Low rents avoid that, but create even more that
people with little perspective end up in this neighbourhood
• Alternative: Use the qualities:Cheap and easily accessible
Asset-Based (social assets)
• Common idea: ‘invite people with higher incomes and support development of the population’
• Which feels like: “we don’t want you”
• Alternative: “So what is it, you can achieve right here and right now?”
Community Development
• Do the inhabitants share a collective spirit, or is alienation common?
• Do the role models show development chances or do they resign?
• Alternative: “Which recognizable talents evoke a positive common spirit?”
Asset-Based Community Development
• Before anything show Woonbron is reliable!
• Listen to preferably all people individually
• Document all qualities – even those that used to seem irrelevant
• Act when you’re told the needs
Who will you meet? - the entrepreneurs:
• Self-sustaining– Will contribute to the quarters assetsWill contribute to the quarters assets– Will Will notnot contribute to the quarters assets contribute to the quarters assets
• Never going to be self-sustaining– Will contribute to the quarters assetsWill contribute to the quarters assets– Will Will notnot contribute to the quarters assets contribute to the quarters assets
• Promising to grow tot self-sustainability– Will contribute to the quarters assetsWill contribute to the quarters assets– Will Will notnot contribute to the quarters assets contribute to the quarters assets
Who will you meet? - the non-entrepreneurs:
• Community-building non-commercial initiatives• Individual progress on a non-commercial base• (institutional) investors in the perspective of youth
• The partners in the quarter that can build a coalition with us
What will you do – business as usual
• Build and maintain good houses in a good environment with strong tenants
• Unite with the strong (project development)
• Brand this quarter and organize pull-factors for the people that could lift this quarter and its economy
What will you do – Asset-Based Community Development
• Relentlessly, but modestly set the example
• The way people are is good – change follows ‘being’ and not the reverse!
• Support what your people can achieve
• Be very, very creative
What will you do – Asset-Based Community Development
• Also our own workers are an asset and they primarily deserve respect, so that they can ‘pass it on’
• Organizational en governmental qualities can serve on another, yet related level – bureaucracy is a disaster for creativity and for true social skills
Amongst the ABCD-projects:
• Computer centre (Oud-) Delfshaven
• “Theatre Formaat” Participative Drama with psychiatrical patients and with mentally disabled
• Children's creative atelier and re-use of industrial waste
• Bike repair centre (Oud-) Delfshaven
• A neighbourhood patrol by parents concerned with their children
• Moroccan and Turkish real-estate firm
• Fashion Fuse – neighbourhood fashion atelier
• Quarter’s support for small jobs in and around the house
• Alternative creative cultural centre “Stichting WORM”
• Shelter and activity centre for homeless people
• Offer and organize practicum for youth
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