City of Port Phillip, Australia: The Community Pulse – Measuring what Matters
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Date: 2011
Abstract: Community Pulse involves community members in setting benchmarks, measuring, and analyzing long-term trends to help prevent the aspects that they love about their neighbourhoods from being lost. The indicators stretch across environmental, both natural (penguins) and built (affordable housing), social (Smiles Per Hour), economic (cost of groceries), and cultural (local icons) environments and build evidence to stimulate political and community action. Over the past nine years, Community Pulse has actively reported on 40 locally determined measures from 13 indicators developed within each of the four pillars of sustainability: social, cultural, environmental, and economic. These indicators were identified by City of Port Phillip residents as tools to track progress towards or away from their aspirations. In response to the question ‘How do you know your neighbourhood is getting better?’, individuals who live, work, and play in this local government area expressed they wanted a city that valued connectedness, affordability, diversity, safety, and a healthy environment. It was also declared that they wanted a community where they feel a sense of control over their destiny.
Tags: Case studies, Community engagement, Government, Policy,
Link to Resource: https://www.uclg-cisdp.org/en/observatory/community-pulse-–-measuring-what-matters
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Date: 2011
Abstract: Community Pulse involves community members in setting benchmarks, measuring, and analyzing long-term trends to help prevent the aspects that they love about their neighbourhoods from being lost. The indicators stretch across environmental, both natural (penguins) and built (affordable housing), social (Smiles Per Hour), economic (cost of groceries), and cultural (local icons) environments and build evidence to stimulate political and community action. Over the past nine years, Community Pulse has actively reported on 40 locally determined measures from 13 indicators developed within each of the four pillars of sustainability: social, cultural, environmental, and economic. These indicators were identified by City of Port Phillip residents as tools to track progress towards or away from their aspirations. In response to the question ‘How do you know your neighbourhood is getting better?’, individuals who live, work, and play in this local government area expressed they wanted a city that valued connectedness, affordability, diversity, safety, and a healthy environment. It was also declared that they wanted a community where they feel a sense of control over their destiny.
Tags: Case studies, Community engagement, Government, Policy,
Link to Resource: https://www.uclg-cisdp.org/en/observatory/community-pulse-–-measuring-what-matters
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Related Projects: