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To build capacity and resources in order
to achieve community participation in planning and project development.
· Utilise information and communication technologies to facilitate community development through networking, information exchange and access to services.
· Communicate new methodologies and strategic approaches for community development.
· Create opportunities for the development of revenue generating community enterprises.
· Enhance networking, co-operation and transnational exchange of experience.
· Promote new approaches to housing development in rural locations emphasizing affordability and design compatibility.
· Reinforce community structures to offset loss of social cohesion and adverse impacts of economic growth.
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Encourage the participation of rural youth in
local and community development organisations.
- Establish a West Cork Community Development Forum to facilitate voluntary and community participation in local development
- Analyse limiting factors and barriers to participation in voluntary and community activity.
- Evaluate revenue earning potential of community enterprise initiatives
- Assist demonstration projects which provide for alternative means of local service provision
- Evaluate work models and legal structures to facilitate community involvement in enterprise planning and development.
- Develop a resource facility to allow access to information and to facilitate the exchange and transfer of development approaches, information, processes and solutions between voluntary and community organisations within the region.
- Appraisal of the employment/commercial opportunities offering flexible working hours and conditions suitable to women with family commitments, limited mobility, etc.
- Evaluate and demonstrate the economic benefits to the region through consumer support for locally produced goods and services.
- Create a workshop/seminar series for LEADER groups, development partners and community leaders to consider new approaches to rural development through the use of lateral thinking techniques pioneered by local resident Dr. Edward de Bono.
- Enhance local development capacity through the provision of integrated development supports (technical support, training, capital investment & marketing) to assist the creation of community initiated and managed tourism projects.
- Create a virtual network of community leaders through the use of “electronic networking/distance co-operation” to improve communications and enhance access to information
- Promote the participation of rural youth in development matters through the structured use of Internet discussion groups and forums.
- Promote the involvement of the region’s latent human resources (women, retired, young, etc.) in voluntary and community development.
- Establish a William Thompson Summer school to provide a forum and context for policy makers within which rural development approaches and ideas can be assessed.
- Adapt training initiatives to facilitate youth participation
- Community representation on West Cork Community Development forum
- Number of new community structures developed/facilitated
- Number of community enterprise initiatives developed
- Number of new work models and funding arrangements facilitated
- Community participation in seminar/workshop/summer school initiatives
- Community participation in “virtual networking” and information transfer
- Youth participation in community structures and development initiatives
- Identification of barriers to participation in voluntary and community activity
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Number of new participants including retired, women, youth resources in
voluntary and community organisations
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