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REBUILDING COMMUNITIES THROUGH PUBLIC SPACE INTERVENTIONS
TOOL: Co-designing built interventions with children affected by displacement (DeCID)
DESCRIPTION
Creating safe and engaging environmental spaces for children to play with and meet their peers is essential for all communities. In stable communities, such spaces help reduce children’s excessive reliance on technology, which can have negative social impacts, and encourage them to interact with others their age in green, child-friendly environments.
The guide discusses the importance of having cities where children feel safe and welcomed. It emphasizes that even small interventions can help change attitudes and raise awareness among stakeholders about the importance of making cities more child-friendly. Sometimes interventions are implemented in existing spaces to make them more suitable for children and can be very simple, such as removing obstacles that prevent them from playing. This guide helps establish an intervention methodology aimed at achieving the best possible participatory outcome based on needs and available resources. Built under the DeCID project that developed a new approach for the participatory design of social infrastructure for children in urban areas affected by displacement, it aims to improve the social infrastructure in urban areas affected by mass displacement for the benefit of both vulnerable host and refugee communities can contribute to social cohesion and better living conditions by:
- creating local employment
- building local skills
- empowering both refugee and host communities.
The guide, which has been used in different Lebanese cities, is structured as follows:
1. Generating Ideas – Building Partnerships – Financing – Studying the Local Context and Needs
2. Translating Children’s Ideas into Design Solutions
3. Determining the Location of the Intervention
4. Selecting Materials, Skills, and Techniques
5. Technical Design
6. Procurement, Hiring, and Construction
Strengthening Social Cohesion
- Managing Procurement, Hiring, and Construction
- Specialists and Communities Building Together
- Strengthening the Local Economy
Post-Construction Phase – Impact and Sustainability
Step 10 – Activation, Ownership, and Management
Step 11 – Maintenance and Follow-Up
Step 12 – Impact and Evaluation
Step 13- Better Infrastructure
Step 14- Empowering Children
Step 15 -Children’s Wellbeing
The guide is available in English, Arabic and Spanish.
Tags:Community Development, Urban Environment, Municipal Projects, Safe Play, Child Wellbeing, Child Development, Child Friendly Cities, Community Participation, Green Spaces
SOURCE
https://decid.co.uk/
YEAR
2022
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