{"id":213,"date":"2017-04-16T13:20:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T13:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canvas.avbp.net\/?p=213"},"modified":"2017-04-16T13:23:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T13:23:51","slug":"community-and-stakeholders-block-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canvas.avbp.net\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"Community and stakeholders (block 11)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Key Stakeholders
\nStakeholders are those individuals and groups that are important to the community. This takes on many forms – from local government who are gatekeepers to locals who have specialist knowledge to groups who are just fun to socialise with. \u00a0It is important to identify these people and organisations the community will interact with and consider how to keep the relationships with them solid. This affects resilience too: the more stakeholders involved, the more resilient your community will be.<\/p>\n

Conventional business models see a left-to-right flow of goods to customers from suppliers who \u00a0provide one specific value-addition. Permaculture finance sees the relationships more in the way animals in an eco-system interact \u2013 mutualism \u2013 with a variety of exchanges back and forth. Another characteristic being\u00a0reciprocity. Relationships are not seen in strict terms such as customers and suppliers, rather in terms of stakeholder partners.<\/p>\n

There are some important categories of stakeholders to recognise \u2013 ones that for example can exchange information more than goods. Ones that will be more interested in providing external capital \u2013 loans \u2013 perhaps for a percentage return as money or in the form of rebated services. Others will be interested in sharing assets<\/p>\n

For example: \u00a0a village might be interested in sharing a mini-bus service with an eco-village.<\/p>\n

Do a quick analysis of stakeholders and see if you can match them to:<\/p>\n