Transcript Building an Intercultural & Socially Inclusive Society

Building an Intercultural & Socially
Inclusive Society through
Community Development
Reginald Okoflex Inya
New Communities Partnership
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Community Development
• Giving people control over the conditions that
impact on their lives.
• Community development empowers &
enables ethnic minorities
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Intercultural Dialogue
• Acknowledging difference between individuals &
cultures
• Intercultural dialogue leads to effective dialogue
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Contribution of Community Development
to Creating an Intercultural Dialogue
• Increasingly mobilised & interdependent
world requires respectful dialogue at national,
community & individual levels
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Community Development Creating an
Intercultural Society
• Government cutting back on equality
establishments at critical point in building
community infrastructure
• Build capacity & not reduce capacity at local
level to encourage cross cultural dialogue
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Challenges
• Struggle for identity
Lack of recognition by host society
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Challenges
• Achieving social inclusion & integration of all
Slow pace of roll out of anti racism initiatives
Developing local & regional foras
Gaps in service provider provision
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Challenges
• Immigrants participating in policy making
Lack of real Government commitment to
empower ethnic led groups
Overcoming sense of disempowerment
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Challenges
• Resourcing immigrant led organisations
Implications at community level
of reduction in training budgets
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Other Challenges
• One sided immigration debate
• Gate keeping
• Burn out amongst community activists
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A True Reality –
The Danger of Lack of Leadership and Transparency!!!
New Communities will not be part of any campaign
to forget the great work of the elderly which
includes migrants!