Amsterdams Steunpunt Wonen Since the first, enthusiastically received presentation of Kwanda in the Netherlands, three years of spreading the ideas and practicing this South African method for community development have followed on in the Netherlands.
The Kwanda method, as developed by Dr Gavin Andersson, is unique due to which the scale (large amounts) and the learning by doing' approach. This has been a great success in townships in South Africa for years. Within the Netherlands there is a need for methods to increase the self-organizing capacity' of deprived neighborhoods and diminishing municipalities. This is a suitable result for a more participatory democracy and theneed to increase the role of citizens in improving their socio-economic conditions, as the role of governments and institutions in the social domain is decreasing. Kwanda is a community make-over program in which citizens in learning camps learn how to organise themselves and take responsibility for their own neighborhood and local issues. Together with local governments and businesses, assignments are acquired through which the community manages its own neighborhood and creates jobs. This unique way of locally initiatinga sustainable change process in collaboration with local government, allows self management.

This application is a sequel to and completion of previous steps in the process of equal learning between African and Dutch experts", however, the focus is now on deepening and broadening. Together a platform and a new stage are created for independent follow-up exchanges with the South African partner. This provides perspective on the creation of an international "Community of Practice", in which can be learned jointly. Besideslocal implementing partners from Amsterdam, universities and the Hogeschool van Amsterdam are all involved, in addition the national housing association Aedes and the national knowledge centre Movisie. In addition considerable donations are given of which 75 % from Dutch financers and 25 % from ON .

Goals:
1 . Reflection on lessons learned, both focused on conditions for successful implementation and adaptations of the method to the Dutch context.
2 . Making knowledge and experience available for national partners and forming a nationwide ' Kwanda network" which operates as a Community of Practice
3 . Monitoring the pilot in Amsterdam, making description and instructions available via E-publication for new pilots in the Netherlands also, wherever possible, helping the start-up (if  available for country offices ON)
4 . Establishing exchanges with South Africa with the purpose of bringing both practices and insights to (learning from each other), forming an international learning network around neighboring cooperatives (as a form of preserving and empowering poor communities, new democracy and new economy).

This allows an equal relationship between Dutch and South African partners, in which mutual learning takes place and the theory of community development and Civic Driven Change obtains an international dimension. Furthermore, a translation into everyday practice from which residents both ' there' and 'here' benefit. The findings are presented in a final presentation to a wider audience as well as via e- publishing, websites and magazines. The expectation is that the established relationships and knowledge sharing independently continues following this project. The results of these findings and publications will be shared with Oxfam Novib's country offices and experts.