Inclusive
Economic Development: Treating People and Communities as
Assets
Inclusive communities are productive communities. Every
person and neighborhood deserves the opportunity to participate actively in governmental
decision-making, to contribute to economic development through individual and
cooperative initiative, and to share in the fruits of prosperity and democracy.
Global Urban Development recognizes people as the world's most important
resource; therefore we develop and implement urban strategies that are
participatory and inclusive. Such strategies empower people to organize
effectively to solve their own problems, improve their environment, and
contribute to the overall productivity of their community, city, region, and
nation. For example, Global Urban Development addresses the dynamics of the
"informal" sector and explores ways to fully integrate every
individual and family into the international marketplace, with full
citizenship, property rights, and responsibilities. The adaptive methods people
create and employ to conduct business, produce goods, provide services, grow
food, make clothes, build housing, educate children, maintain health, and
perform many other daily activities clearly contribute to the well-being of
society and should not be excluded from the formal organization of economic and
social life. It is far better to welcome and encourage people's creative energy
and hard-working spirit by integrating everyone into mainstream institutions
and ensuring that they have the basic security of tenure and livelihood. All
people will then benefit much more completely from the output that flows from
the many difficult and challenging tasks they regularly perform. These same
principles apply in the world of the "formal" sector. The power of
people to organize cooperatively in their communities is vital for solving
urban problems and improving the quality of urban life. Global Urban
Development emphasizes partnership approaches as the most effective way to
accomplish important urban development goals, highlighting a wide variety of
initiatives from around the world where community groups have successfully
collaborated with business, government, and civic organizations.
This GUD committee gave birth during 2002-4 to
the Community Productivity Project (CPP), in partnership with Shack/Slum
Dwellers International (SDI), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP),
and the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat). The CPP helped innovate the policy framework for Inclusive Economic
Development Strategies and Community Productivity Indicators. The CPP
partnership included government agencies and NGOs in Cape Town, Cleveland,
Mexico City, Mumbai, London, Nairobi, Jakarta, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and
Tirana. Despite the efforts of Besnik Aliaj, Jockin Arputham,
Nefise Bazoglu, Gregory Berzonsky, Sergio Besserman Vianna, Lance Buhl, Sundar Burra, Tim Campbell, William Cobbett, Claudia Coulton, Celine d'Cruz, Kim Van
Deventer, Mary del Carmen Diaz Amador, Malika Djebli, Marlene Fernandes, Peter
Hall, Emile Van Heyningen, Eric Hoddersen,
Jane Katz, Jeroen Klink, Nomaindia
Mfeketo, Nhanla Mjoli-Mncube, Eduardo Moreno, Geoff Mulgan,
Sheela Patel, Janice Perlman, Jonas Rabinovitch, Wicaksono Sarosa, Nina Schuler, Wandia Seaforth, Nancy Sedmak-Weiss, Marta Suplicy,
Nigel Tapela, Marta Tellado,
Patrick Wakely, Emiel Wegelin, Erna Witoelar, Nicholas
You, Robert Zdenek, and many others, and even with
the encouragement of Gene Sperling and the Clinton Global
Initiative, we were unable to raise the $10 million needed to do the
full-scale global Community Productivity Project. The good news is that GUD
will be engaging in Inclusive Economic Development in many countries during the
next few years, especially in Latin America.
Please click here for the
Community Productivity Project proposal.
Global Housing Indicators
Networking Event, UN World Urban Forum 7, Medellin, Colombia, April 2014
Since 2010 GUD has been
working with Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI), UN-Habitat,
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), World Bank, Cities Alliance, US
Government, Rockefeller Foundation, International Housing Coalition, and many
other organizations on the Global Housing Indicators (GHI) initiative, under
the leadership of GUD Board member Jane Katz, who is HFHI’s Director of
International Affairs and Programs. She also serves as GHI Manager, and as
Co-Chair of GUD’s committee on Inclusive Economic Development, which is
actively supporting the GHI initiative. In December 2011 HFHI and IDB organized
a Housing Indicators Workshop at the IDB offices in Washington, DC, and HFHI
published a key report, Global Housing Indicators: Evidence
for Action. For more information, see http:globalhousingindicators.org.
On April 10, 2014 at the
UN World Urban Forum in Medellin, Colombia, GUD will sponsor a Networking Event
entitled “Global Housing Indicators (GHI) Working Group Launch Event: Policy
Knowledge and Empirical Data to Promote Equitable, Affordable, Sustainable, and
Resilient Housing and Community Development.” Speakers at this event will
include: Ana Marie Argilagos, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International and
Philanthropic Innovation, US Department of Housing and Urban Development,
Washington; Dr. Eugenie L. Birch, Professor of Urban Research and Education,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Cid Blanco Jr., Housing and Urban
Planning Consultant, Rio de Janeiro; William Cobbett, Manager, Cities Alliance,
Brussels; Dr. Fernanda Magalhaes, Senior Urban
Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington; Dr. Ellen Hamilton,
Lead Urban Specialist, World Bank, Washington; Jane Katz, Director of
International Affairs and Programs, Habitat for Humanity International,
Washington; Christophe Lalande, Housing Unit Leader,
UN-Habitat, Nairobi; Dr. Marc A. Weiss, Chairman and CEO, Global Urban
Development, Washington; and Maria Luisa Zanelli,
Advocacy Manager, Habitat for Humanity Latin America and Caribbean, Lima.
Inclusive
Economic Development: Treating People and Communities as Assets Committee
Co-Chairs: Jane Katz, Janice Perlman, and
Edmundo Werna
Poonam Ahluwalia
Grace Akumu
Jamie Alderslade
Jobeda Ali
Besnik Aliaj
Jockin Arputham
Nefise Bazoglu
Lucelena Betancur
Iman Bibars
Liz
Blake
Edward
Blakely
Cid
Blanco Jr.
Susan
Blaustein
Albina
du Boisrouvray
Andrew Boraine
Lisa
Bornstein
Sandra Braunstein
Robert Buckley
Lance Buhl
Sundar Burra
Yves
Cabannes
Tim Campbell
Gregory
Casagrande
Margaret
Caust
Chung
Ying Cheng
Gail
Christopher
Greg Clark
William
Cobbett
Andres Coca-Stefaniak
Thais Corral
Claudia
Coulton
Lauren
Moser Counts
Louise Cox
Sam Daley-Harris
Forbes
Davidson
Hernando
De Soto
Mary
Dianne
Dillon-Ridgley
Sarah
Dimson
Malika Djebli
Michael Donovan
Ladislau
Dowbor
Leonard
Duhl
Alain
Durand-Lasserve
Nathaniel von Einsiedel
Reese Fayde
Seth Fearey
Katharina
Felgenhauer
Bruce
Ferguson
Marlene Fernandes
John Flora
Neil
Fraser
Robert
Freling
Maureen
Friar
Robert
Friedman
Alastair
Galpin
Malick Gaye
Santosh
Ghosh
Elizabeth
Gibbons
Ernesto
Gil
John Gilderbloom
David
Godfrey
Emilio Haddad
Andre Herzog
Emille van Heyningen
Eric Hoddersen
Pamela Hollie
Tim Honey
Daniel Hoornweg
Eric Huybrechts
Daniel Inkoom
Patricia Irvin
Bianca Jagger
Kim Jawanda
Lorna Johnson
Calestous
Juma
Ritu George Kaliaden
Michael Kennedy
Thomas Kingsley
Vincent Kitio
Jeroen Klink
Vaishali Kushan
Vinay Lall
Claudia Laub
Michelle Lawrence
Jaime Lerner
Vivian Lin
Michael Lindfield
Richard Lumsden
Stella Madrid
Gideon Mandara
Miklos
Marschall
Cecilia Martinez
Andreia Marin Martins
Patricia McCarney
Harold McDougall
Richard McGahey
John McKoy
Jane McRae
Nhlanhla
Mjoli-Mncube
Eduardo
Moreno
Geoff
Mulgan
Fergus Murphy
Etienne Nel
Gertrude Ngenda
James Nixon
Marta Nunes da Costa
Geoffrey Nwaka
Marielza Oliveira
Mary Jane Ortega
Amara Ouerghi
Erik Pages
David Painter
Elena Panaritis
Terry
Patinkin
Anthony Pell
Jan Peterson
Glorianna
Pionati
Christine
Platt
Mario Polese
Jonathan Potter
Roy
Priest
Philip Psilos
Sangeetha Purushothaman
Jonas
Rabinovitch
Bill
Randolph
Jocelyn Rugunda
Donovan Rypkema
Marivel Sacendoncillo
Jane
Samuels
Wendy
Sarkissian
Wicaksono Sarosa
David Satterthwaite
Theo Schilderman
Stephanie Schmidt
Nina Schuler
Hugh Schwartz
Elliott
Sclar
Wandia Seaforth
Nancy Sedmak-Weiss
Mona
Serageldin
Asad Shah
Philip Shapira
Molly O’Meara Sheehan
Michael Sherraden
Seymour Spilerman
Marcus Spiller
Lucy Stevens
Richard Stren
Richard Swett
Marta Tellado
Kees Van Der Ree
Irene Vance
Andrea Veach
Patrick Wakely
Stephen Walsh
Rasna Warah
Emiel Wegelin
Mark Weinheimer
Dave
Wetzel
Gina Whitehill-Baziuk
Rogelio Williams
Mark Willis
David Wilmoth
Erna Witoelar
Silvia Guimaraes Yafai
Guang Yang
Glenn Yoder
Nicholas You
Joel Yudken
Muhammad Yunus
Robert Zdenek
Erla Zwingle