Inspiring Communities

If you are looking for guidance, inspiration, support and/or understanding about community-led development in Aotearoa then you can't go past Inspiring Communities. You can find their website here.

It is from here that we have adopted the community-led development principles for the Connected Murihiku project. They also have some useful reports and information about CLD including this recent one which I have enjoyed reading - Powering Up Communities to Deliver Local Wellbeing. You can read the report here. It is full of case studies of how communities and local government have worked together in different ways and on different types of projects. The community-led approach can be messy but also exciting and the outcomes can be better than anyone might have expected.