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Bon Air North
Development Approach
Basic Philosophy
Basic Philosophy
SURVIVAL
Basic Philosophy
SURVIVAL:
In This World!
&
In The Next?
Basic Philosophy
SURVIVAL
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PROSPERITY
PROSPERITY = INCREASED POTENTIAL
SURVIVABILITY
VISIONING
The Community Vision must
be based on survival and
prosperity
Visioning
The Community Vision must
embrace, equal, surpass that
of its members and has the
potential to accommodate
other visions
Visioning
The Community Vision must
equal the Highest Aspiration
of Mankind
It must equal a great national
vision and a great world vision
Visioning
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Survival & Prosperity
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Before Prosperity – working out Survival
Greater assurance of Survival – Prosperity
Visioning
Bon Air
To
North Vision Statement
achieve and surpass a minimum
level of prosperity for each family in Bon
Air North within the context of the
sustainable development of our socioeconomic and natural environment
Visioning with a Mission
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Survival
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Before Prosperity – working out Survival
 Working
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out the survival needs of the Community
What are the basic needs in normal conditions
What are the basic needs in extreme conditions
Visioning with a Mission
•Survival
Before Prosperity – Working out Survival
Identify the Minimum Level of Development
Required
Identify available and potentially available
resources now and in the foreseeable future
Develop the Survival Plan
Visioning with a Mission
Prosperity –
Greater Assurance of Survivability
Increasing ability/capacity to survive
under the most extreme conditions:
Tsunami
Massive Earth Quakes
Super Storms
Meteors
Famine
Identifying the need for
adequate governance
Bon Air North
Empowerment Council
Revival of the Village Council
Obtaining the Mandate to Carry
the Development
The Village Council
Most appropriate form of
community governance
Democratic – Participatory
Inclusive - Affiliations
Decentralization – Power-sharing
Accountable
Village Council
Implementation
Defining Strategy
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities Threats
Implementation
(Opportunities &) Threats
The Ministry of Housing
The National Housing Authority
Land Settlement Agency
Implementation
Strengths (& Weaknesses)
A people with a pioneering
spirit fighting a just and legal
cause to preserve all they
have - their human dignity
Implementation
LSA –
Before Ossley (BO)–
Communication & Cooperation
With Ossley (Woe)–
No Communication No Cooperation
After Ossley?
Implementation
First Order of Business - Survival
• Saving LSA to save Bon Air
• Development Bon Air North
under the IDB to secure its
long term interest in the
shortest possible time
Implementation
The Appearance of (an) Angel(a)
Bringing the UNDP on her wings
The Cropper Foundation
1.Technical Competence
2.Moral Support
3.Resources
4.Hope
Implementation
The Appearance of (an) Angel(a)
The Cropper Foundation
5.Facilitated the planning
process during battle
6.Community Census & Profile
7.Credibility among a wider
audience
Implementation
Battle Strategy
1. Bon Air First Then The Others
2. Keep Records - BANEC
3. Research & be Ready
4. Never attack the Leader
5. Never call in the Opposition –
unless you are opposition
6. Keep everything legal & moral,
transparent & democratic
Integrative Sustainable
Development Strategy
Economic
1.Low Cost High Value Houses
2.Multi-purpose Cooperative
3.Agro-Forestry, bee keeping
4.Guess Houses - Tourism
5.Agriculture – Homesteads
6.Human Resource - Training
Integrative Sustainable
Development Strategy
Social
1.Education – Cradle to Grave
2.Sports: recreation, entertainment
3.Family life
4.Culture & the Arts
Integrative Sustainable
Development Strategy
Governance
Networking
at all levels
Adopting new
methods
National Executive &
Branch Association
Bon Air North Village Council
Organisation in
Bon Air North
Community of
Air North
Bon
Integrative Sustainable
Development Strategy
Environment
Without the environment we
have nothing - we are nothing
Survival and Prosperity Demand a
Sustainable use of the Environment
Way Forward
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Complete endorsement of the new initiative of the
UNDP
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Adopt a refined version of the outlined Bon Air North
Housing Development Strategy
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Form A united front to address the problems of the LSA
and the Ministry of Housing
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Endorse an ADR System for all communities
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Endorse Radio Bon Air - Community Development Radio
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Monitor all projects which are being installed in your
Community
Bon Air North Village Council
&
Bon Air North Empowerment Council
Say
Thank you