Involving local populations

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

Agenda 21 recommends:< (a) promoting alternative livelihood systems and alleviating poverty by by involving the local people in developing infrastructure and local production and marketing capacity;< (b) initiating and maintaining district and village agricultural land-resource planning, management and conservation groups to assist in problem identification, development of technical and management solutions, and project implementation.

1. Undertaking local planning
2. Ensuring social participation
3. Engaging global-local citizenship

1. Supporting waste reuse in small communities
2. Participating as local communities in democratic processes
3. Involving local people in water management
4. Involving local people in raising public awareness on the environment
5. Involving local communities in contingency planning on environmental hazards
6. Involving indigenous peoples in planning national policies
7. Including local populations in solutions to problems
8. Ensuring water programmes use local expertise
9. Developing local conservation groups
10. Developing community detection of traffic in hazardous wastes
11. Conserving nature communally

1. Providing functional skills in vulnerable areas
2. Employing appropriate technology

1. Training community volunteers
2. Motivating community involvement
3. Engaging concerned local residents
4. Employing local people

1. Abstaining from participation by local communities in democratic processes

1. Lack of participation by local communities in democratic processes

1. Nonlocal