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5. Visualize and
monitor
development
over time
1. (Re)define vision
of success and
desired changes
2. Identify key
capacities for
revitalized
development
4. Use strategies,
methods, and tools to
strengthen capacities
3. Assess
and
monitor
community
capacities
Outsiders such as development facilitators
or researchers can contribute to the
endogenous development process through
various interventions, but they cannot be
the drivers of it. They must understand their
role and respect the community’s decision
about when and how their input is
requested. At the heart of endogenous
development is community visioning,
appreciation of different worldviews and
cultural and spiritual values, respect for
customary institutions and decision-making
processes,
and
understanding
and
strengthening different skills and capacities
(see Figure 2).
Figure 2: Elements of endogenous development
Key Resources on Endogenous Development Methods and Tools
Learning Endogenous Development: Building on Bio-cultural Diversity (ETC Foundation and COMPAS,
2007)
Seeking Strength From Within: The Question for a Methodology of Endogenous Development (COMPAS,
2010)
Bio-cultural Community Protocols Enforce Biodiversity Benefits: A Selection of Cases and Experiences
(COMPAS Endogenous Development Magazine, Issue 6, 2010)
Power Tools: For Policy Influence in Natural Resource Management (IIED database)
80 Tools for Participatory Development (Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, 2008)
Community wellbeing refers to the overall welfare of a group of people bound together by a common
identity (for example, ethnicity, shared activities, or shared resources and areas). This sense of welfare
includes access to and availability of resources, relationships between community members and between
local institutions, and development of community capacities and skills. Community wellbeing can be
measured through various indicators and parameters. Assessment of these parameters can help
communities identify internal weaknesses
and opportunities and then undertake
Basic needs: food, health, shelter, and energy
targeted planning and strategizing.
Safety needs: tenure security and security from
risks, including economic and natural
Indicators to measure satisfaction of
Belonging needs: presence of social groups and
different needs (see Box 22) are currently
equity in transactions, including gender equity and
being developed for community wellbeing in
non-discrimination
the context of biocultural community
Self-esteem needs: autonomy, ability to practice
protocols. Communities are defining criteria
customary beliefs, confidence, and education
for monitoring and assessing a number of
indicators that have important policy Box 22: Different needs for which satisfaction can be measured
implications. Such indicators can help (Source: Framework of indicators developed by UNU-IAS in
identify
specific
issues
on
which collaboration with UNEP)
communities can focus the use of their
protocols to achieve wellbeing aspirations.
Key Resources on Wellbeing Methods and Tools
Learning from the Practitioners: Benefit Sharing Perspectives from Enterprising Communities (UNU-IAS
and UNEP, 2009)
Workshop papers and Report of Technical Workshop on Indigenous Peoples and Indicators of Wellbeing
(2006)