36 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)

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