Live6 Alliance strives for authentic, inclusive neighborhood revitalization with a particular focus on the Livernois and McNichols corridors. The organization serves a central convener and coordinator between the community, institutions, and key stakeholders who contribute to positive change in the community.

The organization actively serves the community in the following six program areas:

1. Real estate development
2. Business attraction & retention
3. Placemaking
4. Residential stabilization
5. Safety
6. Engagement

Live6 Facebook Page: here.

“New Live6 Alliance Executive Director and Commercial Corridor Manager named,” Detroit Mercy, February 8, 2018, available here.

“With democratic budgeting, Live6 takes a nontraditional approach to community engagement,” Model D, “Features,” December 17, 20717, available here.

“New Live6 Alliance headquarters and its homegrown director bring energy to neighborhood,” Model D, “Features,” October 10, 2016, available here.

“New effort to spruce up Livernois and McNichols area,” Detroit Free Press, August 31, 2015, available here.

Contact : info@live6detroit.org

From all the challenges that a community must face in an energy transition process, VILAWATT will, as a priority, focus on unlocking the needed deep energy renovation of residential buildings. The proposal aims at addressing this situation firstly in low income communities where higher efforts need to be done (In Spain about 17% homes are suffering from fuel poverty).

This project will initiate the transition by focusing on Montserratina District (45 Ha.) with its 20.216 residents (30% of the whole City), 8.026 dwellings (6.203 of which are built before 1976, i.e. before any energy related legislation was in place). The annual district income is 15% lower compared to the City average, and its annual final energy consumption is 34 GWh; 75 kWh/year m2.

On a social, economic and environmental level this project works to:

• Awake the community on the energy efficiency and management, and will empower the citizens by making them transit from a passive to a proactive role.
• Strengthen the local economy by bringing economic empowerment to the community vulnerable groups and by creating new jobs linked to the energy transition.
• Reduce environmental impacts (GHG, air pollution and other) thanks to energy efficiency measures and the switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy. VILAWATT pretends to reduce these impacts gradually and in a stable way, instead of having an occasionally benefit.

The Energy Transition will be initiated by the creation of an Innovative Public-Private-Citizen Governance Partnership at Local level (PPCP). This new PPCP will be the central hub that will manage the new local tools for the transition: energy supply, energy currency, energy savings services, deep energy renovation investments and renewable energy production.

This entity will have, for the first time, the Municipality together with the local businesses and the citizens of Viladecans as its members. Its mission will be to promote and ensure a secure, clean and efficient use of energy.

It was created by the CivicWise Valencia circle belonging to the international network CivicWise and focused on projects of Collective Intelligence, Civic Innovation and Open Design. The Civic Factory proposes a new format for intermediation and promotion of activities, projects, actions and practices of Civic Economy, regardless of discipline, experience, race or condition.

The first phase to be able to prototype this project has been the Civic Factory Fest: a month-long event in which public, private and collective entities from Valencia and other cities in Spain and the rest of Europe have taken a first step towards its collective construction. The scenario and the opportunity to materialize the project was born from the collaboration between CivicWise and the public consortium of La Marina Real of Valencia in which it was designed the reactivation of the area destined to the hangars of the Alinghi building. From this first prototyping, it was established a community of people willing to go ahead with the project.

Contact : valencia@factoriacivica.com

This innovative project involves a partnership, and actually the partnership itself is one of the innovative elements. The partnership has the structure public-community-private. So far, the leading partner, or better, the facilitator, is the City of Utrecht. However, the coalition is increasingly horizontally structured, with the city of Utrecht becoming more and more a member of the coalition like the others. Therefore, the ‘leading’ role can better be seen as ‘facilitating’ role. Since the coalition is unique in the Netherlands, several national organizations (ministries, Dutch association of Municipalities, the Ombudsman, researchers, the national human rights institute)  are supporting the initiative, in addition to the local partners.

In practice, this framework has organized the following initiatives:

Cultural Programme / Vrede van Utrecht

Since the local human rights program (http://www.vredevanutrecht2013.nl/) in particular has a cultural objective, over time, much attention has been given to a cultural program that translates and supports the idea of a local human rights culture. For this purpose, a special program was developed in 2013, focusing on local and international peacemaking inspired by the 300th anniversary of the Treaty of Utrecht. In many cultural expressions, such as exhibitions, theatre, symposia, widespread attention was given to the local awareness of the importance of human rights and the importance of inspiration for recognizing human dignity.

Week of local democracy and human rights

To mobilize numerous local human rights organizations and bring them into contact with each other, Utrecht have been working on the annual week of local democracy and human rights (an initiative of the Council of Europe) under the title of ‘Human Rights: What about your backyard?’. Local organizations opened their doors to the public these weeks and offered special meetings to inform the general public about their activities. The promotion of the program was centrally facilitated, inter alia through a website and a widespread activity calendar. Because of its innovative approach Utrecht became the title of the European ‘12 Star City’ .

Human Rights Café’s

As mentioned before, one of the objectives is to give a platform to organizations and actors to discover crossovers. Therefore, an important feature of the process is to facilitate the emergence of a group and to create opportunities for the organizations in the city to meet each other, with the aim to extend and strengthen the network and thus to extend the fundament for a local human rights culture. One way this is facilitated by organizing human rights cafés four times a year. These cafés are a great way for organizations to network and explore crossovers. The cafés are also important in enhancing the use of the human rights narrative by organizations. No less than four hundred organizations are actively invited to the cafés, but of course they are accessible to all those interested.

Contact : https://humanrightscities.net/contact-us/

Government is now being encouraged to reconsider its land tenure policy in the light of the CLT experience in Voi and to expand creative thinking in the area of land tenure policy based upon an African perspective of land tenure that benefits the community rather than just the individual.

http://www.hic-gs.org/document.php?pid=2548

Jaffer Murtaza, The Tanzania-Bondeni Community Lands Trust, Voi, Kenya. Habitat International Coalition. 1996.

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http://www.hic-gs.org/document.php?pid=2548