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Civic Duty for Community Development: The Need for Duty-Based Approaches?

Civic Duty for Community Development: The Need for Duty-Based Approaches?. Sanae Ito Graduate School of International Development at Nagoya University. Japan’s Big Society: Civic Duty Fulfillment through Neighbourhood Associations. Ward Office. Police. Fire Brigade. Federation of NAs.

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Civic Duty for Community Development: The Need for Duty-Based Approaches?

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  1. Civic Duty for Community Development: The Need for Duty-Based Approaches? Sanae Ito Graduate School of International Development at Nagoya University

  2. Japan’s Big Society: Civic Duty Fulfillment through Neighbourhood Associations Ward Office Police Fire Brigade Federation of NAs NA NA NA NA NA HH HH HH HH HH

  3. Duty fulfillment through the association membership to create ‘a Safe and Peaceful Community’ • Clean-up operations • Traffic safety campaigns • Neighbourhood patrols • Disaster management drills • Waste recycling operations

  4. Incentives to join the Neighbourhood Association: Disasters and Wastes • To be included in the joint disaster management operations at the imminent threat of a big earthquake • To be included in the collective system of waste recycling

  5. Lessons to be learned? • The perceived need to collectively cope with disasters and wastes exists not only in Japan but elsewhere in Asia. • Where reciprocal behaviour is highly valued, duty fulfillment through certain institutional mechanism might be the missing link between individual empowerment and community development. • When people get mobilised into the collective system of duty fulfilment, their expectation for the local authorities to fulfil their duties will grow too.

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