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The New Rules Project of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance a nonprofit corporation has worked to make financing of community owned business less onerous. H.R.2930, the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act [1] Archived 2012-12-15 at the Wayback Machine , would relax securities law requirements making it easier for a community to raise money ...
CAMPFIRE was initiated in 1989 by the Zimbabwean government as a program to support community-led development and sustainable use of natural resources. [2] The 1975 Parks and Wildlife Act set the legal basis for CAMPFIRE by allowing communities and private landowners to use wildlife on their land, marking a substantial shift from colonial policy that made it illegal for local populations to ...
Communal land is a (mostly rural) territory in possession of a community, rather than an individual or company [citation needed].This sort of arrangement existed in almost all Europe until the 18th century, by which the king or the church officially owned the land, but allowed the peasants to work in them in exchange for a levy.
Economic development projects target the poor, often in developing countries. [6] There have been mixed results from a limited number of studies endeavouring to explore the potential for success from community-based decentralised programs. [7] The World Bank is on record to have increased funding for community-based development from a minimum ...
These initiatives are recognized for their contributions to climate resilience, forest regeneration, and socio-economic development. [2] [3] Many projects aim to protect community livelihoods, enhance resource access, reduce poverty, or promote sustainable land management, however, these initiatives can face many challenges in practice.
The notion of community business is linked to the notion of community ownership, and more widely co-operative models of ownership.. In his History of Community Asset Ownership, [1] Steve Wyler argues that community ownership represents a strain of English socio-political thoughts and activism that can be traced back to the progressive removal of common land from the Norman Conquest and ...
Community development planning consists of a public participatory and usually interactive form of town or neighborhood planning and design in which diverse community members (often termed “stakeholders”) contribute toward formulation of the goals, objectives, planning, fund/resource identification and direction, planned project implementations and reevaluation of documented local planning ...
A joint project of the Ministry of Lands, Resettlements and Rehabilitation (now: Ministry of Land Reform) and the Danish organization Ibis, the Lands Project, aimed to approach the urban challenge by searching for innovative solutions to provide affordable access to security of tenure for informal urban settlers shortly after independence.