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Preparation for Community Resource Mapping

Preparation for Community Resource Mapping. Resource mapping identifies the specific characteristics and resources or assets of your community. This may include basic data and information on the people, the land, the organisations and activities in your community. Task/Assessment Activity.

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Preparation for Community Resource Mapping

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  1. Preparation for Community Resource Mapping Resource mapping identifies the specific characteristics and resources or assets of your community. This may include basic data and information on the people, the land, the organisations and activities in your community.

  2. Task/Assessment Activity Purpose: You will develop a survey to help with your Community Resource Mapping in order to gauge the interests, needs, challenges and opportunities of your community. Example: You decide to survey all schools, libraries, and businesses that have computers and Internet access and determine which are willing to let members of the public have access to them. Preparation: Oversized paper, white board, paint, colored markers/pens; local phone book. Before the group convenes, you may want to pre-identify some potential resources and/or assets.

  3. Activity One: Planning Your Survey Hold a planning session. Discuss what information beyond basic data you will collect. You will be collecting information about individuals and organisations in your community. Divide your surveys into specific categories. What resources will you measure? Some distinctions separating resources include human resources, natural resources and material resources. .

  4. Activity One: Planning Your Survey Assess the human resources. You may need to survey residents, schools, organisations and institutions. Understand the natural and/or material resources of your community. You may seek to interview individuals who are experts in a field, business, or academic environment to find out what resources – ranging from food production, to the number of cell phones, to educational opportunities—are available. **This data will be used to evaluate everything from how many young people in the community are in school and how many are not, to which businesses may need regular resources from your Center, to what training might be offered by the Center to improve the lives of community members. .

  5. Activity Two: Creating Your Survey Once you have determined what information you intend to acquire, and for what purpose, you need to draft the survey itself. If accessible, try “Google Forms” online at http://docs.google.com.

  6. Informal Organisations Remember that informal organisations involve people who share a common interest, including: • Prayer groups, youth groups, service groups • Community celebration committees, parades, community festivals, street fairs You may find informal organisations through: • Word of mouth • Local/community newspapers • Community websites when available Formal Organisations The more formal or structured organisations in your community usually have: • Offices, buildings, phones, faxes • A purpose/mission/goals to achieve • Paid employees • Ties to government/business/education/churches such as: schools, health organisations, clinics, hospitals, churches, libraries, recreational centres, etc.

  7. Contacting Formal Organisations • Check the phone book under service provided • Get information from elders and respected community members • Search the internet for information • When you reach them, let them know that you are conducting Community Resource • Mapping. Visit them and take a camera, a notepad and a list of things you would like to • know about the organisation. Identify their strengths, assets, resources, opportunities, • prospects. • Including Leaders of the Community • When you find community leaders, or those who have the potential to become leaders, ask about their: • Formal employment • Involvement with community organisations • Past efforts in the community • Current projects they are involved in that will affect the community • Talents, skills, gifts that they use to better the community. • Be sure to contact individuals in formal positions of authority, such as leaders in politics, businesses or community organisations, who might further support the sustainability of your eCentre.

  8. Activity Three: Planning Delivery • You may collect survey information in any of the following ways: • Hand out your survey; ask people to complete and return it or make arrangements to collect it • Call people by phone and go through the survey with them • Go door-to-door or street-to-street • Fax/email survey if possible, asking people to complete and return it. • Decide which method or combination of methods is likely to produce the best results in your community and make initial plans for carrying out the survey • The next unit assumes that you will use community participants to administer the survey

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