Local organization for local needs
[To amplify emerging change and make it resilient, communities must be encouraged to cultivate and produce their own livelihoods and co-govern their utilities, services and resources, in relational dynamics that foster self-realization and adaptation. We must encourage existing commons and sustainable initiatives to connect and empower one another by sharing information, networking and planning and acting in concert where a common and commons approach can be promoted.
Trends & Existing initiatives:
A variety of innovative, creative small and local initiatives and projects are actively pursuing alternative and more sustainable forms of agriculture, industrial and creative production, social and economic organization, currencies and credit systems, education, (self-)governance, and ways of life. At the edge we find the collaborative and P2P economy producing various kinds of commons, digital or not. ]
- Other relevant reports or links? Permaculture, etc...
- Communities, groups and individuals develop a sense of ownership of the process, a sense of immediacy and transparency, of shared destiny and emotional experience that foster trust and resilience, and a shared 'commons sense'.
- This encourages conflict resolution and transparency approaches. It develops a sense of enduring responsibility for the commons and roles shared with future generations.
- Local collaboration and peer to peer (P2P) dependencies are something graspable and immediate, and also expand mutual learning and awareness of what empowers one another and larger systems, creating channels by which they can discover opportunity and be brought into balance.
- Then trust, co-creation and co-governance practice and working skills develop at each scale, and so also spread to the whole in a distributed manner.
- Local communities and stakeholders -the people, local governance institutions, development organizations, Indigenous Peoples communities.
Detailed Action Items: [Expand more?]
- Create material to help the elaboration of policies that encourage resilience, P2P/many2many distributed entrepreneurship and that help communities cultivate and produce their own livelihoods and co-govern their utilities, services and resources.
- Create and diffuse material/blueprints sharing of experience and practices that help communities develop their own livelihoods and commons in relational dynamics that foster self-realization and adaptation, partnership and exchanges, learning and mutual empowerment. (elaborate on this via the P2P foundation)
- Encourage financing of these initiatives (see section Use finance to grow the commons)
- Indentify and promote methods to measure and monitor impacts locally and repercussions at wider levels. (see section Monitoring, reporting, assessment)
- Create and animate a Commons Abundance Network - a platform for exchange and collaboration and for the rolling out of the Commons sense vision.
- Commons Action for the UN is working with other organizations and networks to develop a Commons Abundance Network (CAN).
- Promote the use and testing of the innovative methods and initiatives developing at the local level as coordinated regional emergency interventions in ‘innovation zones’ established in areas damaged by disasters, or to reverse damage caused by past and current practice. Promote the study of how interventions affect each scale of the systems they take place in.