The Gauteng Natural Step Network
invites you to our special event 2-day workshop
focusing on
SCIP
Sustainable Local Development: it CAN work!
led by
The Peoples’ Agenda faculty
based upon the pioneering work of Dr Norman Reynolds
Tues/Wed May 26/7
The Cottages, 30 Gill Street, Observatory
Following the huge popularity of Norman Reynolds’ series of workshops, here is an opportunity to explore the foundation and workings of Norman’s Sustainable Community Investment Programme (SCIP). This approach has now been accepted by government. Its purpose is to make empowerment real and local.
This is the future of development in our country. It is a radical departure from the top-down model that has so spectacularly failed to deliver. Anyone concerned about service provision and empowerment needs to grasp these ideas. Government has adopted SCIP as its new citizen-led development paradigm: communities will be organised, resourced and registered as full partners in the delivery of Local Economic Development (LED). This new strategy was designed by Norman and is now housed in the Department of Provincial and Local Government (dplg).
The Peoples’ Agenda faculty, under the direction of co-founder Edward Nicholson will:
o Explain SCIP and its applications
o How to set up a SCIP Programme
o Some of the lessons learned
o Some likely problems to be encountered
o Work with us through some case study applications, and
o How to use the start-up materials.
More on SCIP at www.thepeoplesagenda.co.za/
08h00 for 08h30 start; 16h30 finish
Price R1600 (NGO’s R1100)
REGISTRATION: Please complete attached form and return to naturalstep@pes.org.za together with reference to payment
For overnight accommodation rates visit www.thecottages.org.za - please book early as places are limited!
Sadly, Norman died in December 2007. His friends and colleagues have carried his ideas forward through The Peoples’ Agenda, which he founded with Edward Nicholson. The Peoples’ Agenda is now taking forward this pioneering work, together with other leadership organisations, especially Broederlijk Delen and the dplg.
SCIP begins with an accurate analysis of the ‘dual economy’. This leads into particular localisation policies and programmes that will enable the majority of citizens, now economic prisoners of the marginalised Second Economy, to begin to live and to take control of their lives within ‘working local economies’.
This dramatic shift, away from delivery to partnership, heralds the long sought after ‘economic democracy’. It promises to remove the social, economic and governance burdens of poverty, of crime, of dependence and of anger and suspicion. It foresees capable, competent citizens able to be responsible parents, proud community members and massive joint investors in their local production bases.
SCIP is now being developed as a fully operational programme with the start of a few pilots. The UNDP, Broederlijk Delen and dplg are supporting it. The aim is to place it progressively ‘on offer’ to all citizens within a couple of years. It re-directs Government’s vast expenditure in poor areas, that at present generates little local economic activity, into ways that mobilise and reward local actions and production and gain notable improvements in the local income multiplier.
It builds upon the African tradition of joint ownership of the productive base, modernising the institution of community into a resource management, investment and productive schema. It has close parallels with the ‘democratic’ employee ownership model that has taken AXIZ to such heights in South Africa. It completes the goal to build an ‘Ownership Society’.
SCIP is driven by rights programmes: Child, Health and Investment Rights, Working Local Economies, Local Trading Systems and Community Banks. It opens up considerable possibilities for more effective SMME, co-operative and other forms of local economic activity, and for dynamic ECD, school and other service funding.
Step Network
011 274 6807 - naturalstep@pes.org.za
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