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The Enabling Municipality

The Enabling Municipality. What will I tell?. Short background about me Why the Enabling Society Theory and Practice Guidance in developing an Enabling environment. Bert-Ola Bergstrand Company analysis Social Capital Forum CSR Västsverige Living Bridges Planet

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The Enabling Municipality

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  1. The Enabling Municipality

  2. What will I tell? • Short background about me • Why the Enabling Society • Theory and Practice • Guidance in developing an Enabling environment

  3. Bert-Ola Bergstrand • Company analysis • Social Capital Forum • CSR Västsverige • Living Bridges Planet • Social Capital Markets • People and Planet Holding • All Win • HelsinkiSustainability Center

  4. Why the Enabling municipality?

  5. Great challenges that only could be solved together....

  6. Why these changes? • Health, Environment,Work, Education.. • Social Tech • Financial system Trust in institutions …Edelman Trust Barometer, World Value Survey

  7. A new operating logic – The unlinear networked Society From an operating mode based on ”closed, selective and controlling mechanisms, to an open random and supportive mode” (T, Powers, Alan Moore, Marina Gorbis, John Hagel, Leif Edvinsson) Ex: - Risk is lower in distributed networks - Valuchain ”Prosument” - Transaction costs are lower Opens up for new business opportunities…

  8. What is “Enabling” really about? “Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. This is profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow” (David Hume, A Treatsie of Human Nature, 1740)

  9. Social Capital Social capital is the glue that holds societies together and without which there can be no economic growth or human wellbeing. Christiaan Grootaert Social Capital, The missing link, 1998, World Bank

  10. A common definition of social capital Networks together with shared norms, values and understanding that facilitate co-operation within or among groups of people (Office for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

  11. Trust – The fabric of social capital Trust between individuals becomes trust between strangers and trust of a broad fabric of social institutions; ultimately, it becomes a shared set of values, virtues, and expectations within society as a whole. Without this interaction trust decays; this decay begins to manifest itself in serious social problems… (‘The Necessity of Politics’ Beem 1999: 20)

  12. Elements of Networks • Bonding – within groups or communities, characterised by strong connections (families, ethnic groups, clubs, etc.) • Bridging – horizontally across boundaries, characterised by weak links (interreligious, interracial, intergenerational, across wider social networks) • Linking – weak links made vertically between relationships of power (e.g. class structure)

  13. Why work with Social Capital? • Compensate for low levels of other capital (human, physical, financial) • Reduce conflict between different communities (excess bonding social capital will achieve the opposite increasing the cost of regulation and control across community boundaries) • Reduce crime • Increase educational achievement • Higher economic performance • Higher levels of happiness • Better health

  14. Social Capital Thrives on • Ownership, equality & collective identity • Transparency & information exchange • Collaboration on common goals & participation • Mutual trust and reciprocity • Informal interaction • Openness to new ideas • Access to positions of power and influence

  15. Social Capital in Practice

  16. Västra Götalandsregionen –(Region West Sweden) Facts • Largest region in Sweden • 4 subregions – Responsible for Economic growth programs • App 1 500 000 people live in West Sweden • Gothenburg main town – App 500 000 people • 49 Municpalities, out of 290 in Sweden (local governance)

  17. Organised work devoted to the social economy started in 2001 • According to the regional guidelines the significance of the social economy and its protagonists must be brought out clearly in all strategic development work and in the implementation of Vision Västra Götaland • 14) Joint action with universities and schools ..”The concept of social capital and the knowledge around its significance for development and growth should continue to be highlighted by means of concrete studies and development projects in the collaboartion between, for example, municipalities and the higher education sector.”

  18. Dynamic Growth Capital Aims • To increase the knowledge about social capital 2) Create a modell to be used in the rest of west Sweden for work with related issues and in similar organisation form (From analysis to implementation)

  19. View of process Nov 2006 – 2010

  20. Micro projekt as method Center of Innovation – Business network Civic Sector as resource – 12 workshops Social Sustainability in School Development of Tourism network Public Health Project Ethnic minorities as resource

  21. A future model Municipality of Vårgårda – Based on diagnosis Local Authorities Resources are build and enhanced through co-operation Civic sector Business

  22. Here We Are

  23. The Issues Facing Cairndow in 1998 • Lack of housing • Insufficient workers to fill jobs • No opportunities for further education • Lack of centre to encourage tourists to stop and learn about Cairndow • Lack of knowledge of local history • No awareness to alternatives (e.g. renewable energy sources)

  24. Here We Are • Set up in 1998 to CONNECT Cairndow’s past, present and future and share it with the community and the incomers • Inter connected activities, for and by community, land, homes, history, local resources • Built a community centre beside the famous Loch Fyne Oyster Bar to act as a focal point of activity. • Launched Scotland’s first community owned biomass plant, opened by Minister for Energy Jim Mather • Created 14 jobs and sustained a further

  25. Other good examples… • Langenegg • Ottawa • Tasmanien • Baskien • Voullerim

  26. Reflections - How do youbuild social capital • Wehavetoact? • It`sabouteatingice-cream • You must be concrete? • I do not feelcomfortablewiththisconcept? • Difficultto ”invest” in people and knowledge www.connectsverige.se

  27. Steps in working with social capital 1 ) Establish Favourable Conditions (maximising local, resources) = Support opportunities for social interaction 2) Tap into Existing Networks (to deliver information via Community) = Value mutual friendship. Provide access to information and opportunites to influence decision making 3) Extend existing, and build new networks for all communities, = construct shared future visions, form new networks through collective action

  28. Value - Communication Business Value - Income Value of: IdentityHappinessInspirationEthicsCommunity

  29. To measure and to make social capital concrete ‘What a community chooses to measure has a tremendous impact on the quality of life of its members” (North West Policy Center, Seattle, USA)

  30. Changing Community Landscapes… • Matrix showing social capital (3 elements) against ACTIVITIES… • Stakeholder map - RELATIONSHIPS… • Social capital questionnaires before and after CCL…completed by community • Post-CCL project look at changes in norms/values; trust/reciprocity; networks… • Report… • Case study…

  31. Where are wegoing? ”Mission drift into the future”

  32. Final Thoughts • Social Capital brings a new way of looking at the challenges that communities face and provides a lens which values human relationships and makes currently invisible resources visible • It provides a common language to explain why we are doing what we are doing • Helps put numbers to soft outcomes • Can provide a framework to help replicate successes • Look to introduce activities which help make community boundaries porous and allow access to new resources (bridging & linking) • Indirect and informal activities are excellent ways to build reciprocal interaction and trust

  33. Where do you find me? bert-ola.bergstrand@socialcapitalforum.se http://www.facebook.com/#!/bertola.bergstrand http://livingbridgesplanet.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=78180374&trk=tab_pro

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