1 Integrating the NRE Project Insights Bill Reimer Click on for the data behind the claims and View Notes Page for Speakers Notes

2 Lessons (1) Working Proposition Community Capacity is a function of assets (or liabilities) and the ability of communities to recognize and (re)organize those assets to achieve their valued outcomes.

3 ASSETS and LIABILITIES Economic Capital Human Skills and Abilities Social Capital Natural Resources OUTCOMES Economic wealth Social and political inclusion Social Cohesion Environmental security Social and self- worth Health Personal Security outcomes can become new assets and liabilities PROCESSES Market Bureaucratic Associative Communal

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5 Gaps Formal-Informal economy Formal-Informal economy  Rural women relatively disadvantaged by participation in informal economy Municipal financing Municipal financing  Resources greater constraint on discretion than autonomy Social capital Social capital  Relational frameworks and context related to particular outcomes Capacity Capacity  Potential, level and group dependent, outcomes may be positive or negative

6 Activities Social capital papers (2) Social capital papers (2) Capacity paper Capacity paper Municipal finances paper Municipal finances paper Social economy paper Social economy paper Social support paper Social support paper CSD Trajectories CSD Trajectories Cleaning and archiving: data, documentation, 2006 census data, NRE ‘Scrap book’ Cleaning and archiving: data, documentation, 2006 census data, NRE ‘Scrap book’

7 Integrating the NRE Project Insights The Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation nre.concordia.ca /04/29