Building a model

Not only has to be well fed and strong, must have a plan, a goal, and a touchable and positive result.

 

    The communities are not static groups, they neither live from good intentions of their members. To hold on, they must have a source that allow them to assure their advance and next generations’. Many communities are built around common activities and values what many times have been inherited for generations not considering their real contribution and what way they are useful to assure their sustainability.

 

It’s here when adopting development models is spoken. Think of a person. Like any alive being, it’s not static but after the birth, it passes through a growth-up eenand evolution process until it finally dies. The key is what methods it adopts for growing up, evolving, and transferring that knowledge to next generations for assuring length in time, and those ones can improve.

 

The communities work almost the same way, and that the development models  are about – I mean schemes or patterns that guarantee the growth and evolution of all that human group, what benefits for equal and adopts use & habits that improve its relationship to the environment in every respect.

 

The development models are not fit to the economic aspect but involve every aspect of a community, from the political to the daily passing by the educational to the most urgent basic needs. Reducing development to economic growth is the cause of frustration and alienation in many communities those become disintegrating and destroying their common ideal.

 

A good development model must guarantee the growth-up of the community, generate welfare, including every member around, and leaving the way ready for who are upcoming to continue and improve taking the goald we have inherited them as a starting point. However, there are other factors to consider about building development models that pass by the common sense and the constant practice of democracy.

 

Sustainable Development

When a community adopts a development model must not fall into the short-term mistake. The short-term solutions work a very few time and when they end, generally, leave bigger problems to solve that many times there were not at the beginning of intervention. The development models must bet the long-term and the maximum inclusion. In that sense, the sustainable development conception must be constant at the time to set them.

 

The philosophy of sustainable development can be resumed in building and evolving for who will follow us to build and evolve over what we have advanced. If we represent it graphically, it would seem a spiral that in its base is very narrow, but as it goes ascending, it goes enlarging not losing firmness.

 

A characteristic of sustainable development is the care of environment because that feeds from it and it’s the ultimate legacy. So the impacts on that are minimum or null. Remember we are talking about long-term, then what we could call the big house is the first one to prepserve, if not, where would you develop?

 

Freedom to choose

After the communitarian consultations made in Peru, Argentina, and Guatemala, the thesis of previous, free, and informed agreement began to be elaborated. Lawyer Julia Cuadros resumes it as “the consultation process to the community based upon a wide and easily available quality information  which everybody has access and about they take a decision without any kind of coertion.”

 

The development models pass through this process. It’s not about what the most say but wwhat the community consensus is. For reaching this level, everybody will have to talk much each other upon an objective basis. The diagnoses are the best documentarian tools to enrich this dialogue and improving the decisions quality that may be one or many, but they never must discard the quality issue because that wwill guarantee they work effectively.

 

Competitiveness

The development models are competitive, in other words, they take an adequate advantage of their resources with criteria of efficiency ( the less steps as possible) and effectiveness (reaching to the goal). When the community resources are optimized, it’s obtained as a result most productiveness as well as quality improvement. Be aware about this word that will be the constant in those processes.

 

The business consultant Luis Ginocchio states the competitive communities ghrow more and better than the productive communities. He says that the difference is in the attitude their members adopt about their development model. A first attitude is the constant search to know and to assess that everybody to know. The idea with this knowledge is practicing it constantly so the process improves and the risk to mistake minimizes.

 

Think of an athlete. He never will be excellent in his discipline if he doesn’t know all the updated rules and techniques, and trains with constance and discipline. Additionally, the competitiveness also feeds with assertiveness, in other words, the frequent intention to do right the processes, and to get them, you will need to be competent – to know and to do right.

 

Having advantage

Up to here, we have built a development model that works perfectly for our community but it is not alone, it is related in an active or less active way to similar others. These other communities also can adopt development models. Imagine they are exactly the same than your community – wwhat must you do in this case? It simply must highlight you.

 

Every community highlights for its comparative advantages – a very particular characteristic inside others apparently equal. Think of the top cultures of ancient times, and the reason why they are a study object today. Although they seem to be similar aspects, you’ll ever find comparative advantages among each other that were inclusive  the key of their survival in history. In fact, we still rule under the Sumerian and Egyptian astronomical studies, we still philosophe Greek style, and many of our social conventions are still based upon the Roman Laws. To talk about the Peruvian case, the new agronomy is just a revival of the old Pre-Columbian wisdom.

 

Then, what will differentiate your community? Get back to your diagnose, look around you, talk to the people. The most insignificant details may be the key at the time to propose the change and propose the growth-up. And if your development model is original, much better.

 

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