Useful Links for Community Education
Asset-Based Community Development Training Group – Building Communities from the Inside Out. ABCD Principles: 12 Guiding Principles for Community Engagement
Common Ground offers ideas, information and inspiration through publications and projects such as Field Days, Parish Maps, Flora Britannica, Apple Day, Community Orchards, Tree Dressing Day, Confluence and the campaign for Local Distinctiveness.
Community Toolbox: Bringing Solutions to Light. Yhe world's largest resource for free information on essential skills for building healthy communities. Over 7,000 pages of practical guidance in creating change, including step-by-step instructions, examples, check-lists, and related resources.
The Education for Sustainable Development Toolkit is an easy-to-use manual for individuals and organisations from both the education and community sectors. It addresses the potentially powerful alliance of school systems and communities working together to reach local sustainability goals.
ICLEI — Local Governments for Sustainability is an international association of 1100 local governments from 67 countries who have made a commitment to sustainable development.
International Association for Public Participation.
The Institute for Sustainable Communities gives passionate, committed people around the world the tools, skills, and resources they need to make their communities better places to live.
Sustainable Communities Network — linking citizens to resources and to one another to create healthy, vital, sustainable communities.
The World Bank Group: Community Driven Development — an approach that gives control over planning decisions and investment resources to community groups and local governments. CDD programs operate on the principles of local empowerment, participatory governance, demand-responsiveness, administrative autonomy, greater downward accountability, and enhanced local capacity.
The UNESCO: Education for Sustainable Development Toolkit seeks to help schools and communities develop a process for creating locally relevant and culturally appropriate education. It is based on the idea that communities and educational systems need to dovetail their sustainability efforts. Ideally, local educational systems can reorient existing curriculums to reinforce local sustainability goals.
Creating a sustainable community. The vision for 2020 of the regional municipality of Hamilton-Wentworth in Canada.