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joint programs being run by local governments and recyclable materials
collectives to organize and utilize the economic potential of waste materials;
often including support to cooperatives and the creation of educational
opportunities for children
job creation programs linked to environmental preservation
low cost housing programs being run jointly by municipalities and
neighborhood groups which promote community involvement in land
title regulation, construction work, income generation and in linked initiatives
in areas such as health and education
local health programs, often administered jointly by local governments
and community associations, using small mobile health teams and local
health centers to reach areas with little access to health resources and
promote inclusion of low income communities within the health service
volunteer health programs focused on pre-natal and early infant child
care for the most vulnerable sectors and joint church, local government
and non-governmental programs working with vulnerable groups such as
street children, child prostitution and family violence
programs being carried out by rural workers and small farmers associations
in conjunction with non-governmental organizations and development
agencies to gain better access to markets through product processing
and market related activities, also creating income and job opportunities
for the wider community
creation of market gardening zones around urban areas to provide opportunities
for rural workers affected by agricultural transitions
local government involvement in support of more equitable relations
between raw material extraction communities and the final purchasers,
building up chains of fair trade relations involving workers associations,
non-governmental organizations and business firms
self-help urban industrial and small business craft cooperatives
micro-credit programs developed by local associations, or through joint
partnership with state and local governments
business support for community and local government initiatives
various forms of school grant programs designed to provide a stimulus
for low income parents to maintain their children in school
various forms of inter-municipal working in joint planning of industrial
development, environmental management and food supply
In each meeting, the focus was on the debate of the experiences themselves
and in the discussion of ideas that seemed to be emerging. Time was monitored
to ensure that whilst those who presented the experiences might talk
for 15 minutes, everybody else had to content themselves with between 2–
5 minutes of comment. Like a town meeting, Quaker church gathering or
the eighteenth century French civic assemblies, everybody sat around a square
and raised hands to put their names down on the list to talk. Nobody was