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Collective Learning and Action for Sustainable Community Development

Collective Learning and Action for
Sustainable Community Development
When you hear the word "community development," what kind of image comes to your mind? Who

are the main actors? It can take many forms, such as government-led community development,

community-based activities by autonomous people's organizations, contributions by NPOs and volunteer

groups, and activities in the community as part of school education. Over the past few years, ACCU hascollected a variety of case studies of collaborative community development with the cooperation ofpartner organizations in Japan and abroad. We have also worked with experts and project leaders toanalyze and deepen our understanding of the processes and mechanisms of collaboration, as well as thekey elements of such collaboration that enables mutual learning. We are pleased to introduce today theresults of our learning in reading and audio-visual materials below!

Case studies ofJAPAN:

NaganoPeople-led learning and community development through theOkayama

Mizushima Project: Human resource and community development throughenvironmental learning

ShimaneINDIA:

4 countries in Asiamechanism

Oki-Dozen Education Miryokuka Project: Community development through education
sector reforms

Project Prajwala: Validating scalable models for WASH in schools

BANGLADESH: Sustainable community development through
PHILIPPINES: Inclusive community-based disaster reduction and management projectces

Resour◎ Collective Learning and Action for Sustainable Community Development- Case studies of four countries in Asia -Case studies describing the mechanisms and processes of collaboration and their analysis◎ Learning Together for the Community- Key concepts and values from project leadersʼ viewpoints -Community leaders elaborate on key concepts and values that facilitate collective learning andaction in the community in their own words◎ For audio-visual materials on the overview of each project...
＊ As of March 2022, videos are available only for two cases from Japan.

A b o u t t h e pr oj e c t
Various sectors and sub-sectors have worked on ESD through their own channels and schemes: formal learning inschools or teacher training programmes at higher education institutions; non-formal education ator CLCs; orinitiatives by the hands of the CSOs. In the past few years, we have worked on promoting a collaborative approach to ESD
under the common objective of collective learning and action for sustainable community development. Under this project,launched in 2019, we worked with project leaders from diﬀerent parts of the region including India, Bangladesh, thePhilippines, Thailand, China as well as Japan.
Experts in non-formal education, ESD, andcommunity development were also invited toprovide technical inputs. Over the threeyears of the project, we collected multiple
case studies of community-based
collaboration in each country. And throughdiscussion and dialogue, we deepened ourunderstanding of mechanisms andprocesses of such collaboration as well as
key concepts and values that are importantin promoting collective learning and action
for sustainable community development.

In t e rn a t io n a l Sy m p o s i u m
The International Symposium for Collective Learning andAction was organized on Februar y 9, 2022. Our par tnerorganizations in Japan, namely, the Lifelong Learning Division ofthe Matsumoto Cit y Board of Education, the Mizushima
Foundation, and the Oki Learning Center, presented their projects.
They also shared their ideas on key concepts and values thatfunction as drivers for collective learning and action in thecommunity, including “autonomy,” “loose and ﬂexible relationship that enables value creation,” and “co-existence, co-learningand co-creation beyond diﬀerences and instability of values.” In the following discussion, participants from Japan andabroad shared their thoughts around these concepts and exchanged ideas.