Presentation by Davie Philip, Community Resilience Programme, Cultivate Living & Learning, Ireland. 9th Annual Meeting of the OECD LEED Forum on Partnerships and Local Governance (Dublin-Kilkenny, Ireland), 26/27 March 2013. http://www.oecd.org/cfe/leed/9thfplgmeeting.htm

1. 9th Annual Meeting
IMPLEMENTING CHANGE:
A NEW LOCAL AGENDA FOR
JOBS AND GROWTH
In co-operation with the EU Presidency, Irish Government and Pobal
26-27 March 2013, Dublin-Kilkenny, Ireland
WORKSHOP F: MAKING TRANSITION COMMUNITIES MORE RESILIENT
Davie Philip
Community Resilience Programme, Cultivate Living & Learning, Ireland

2. Cultivating Resilient Communities
Davie Philip, davie@cultivate.ie

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4. Resilience

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ability to deal with trauma, tragedy,
and all kinds of threats.
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6. Community resilience is the existence, development and
engagement of community resources to thrive in a
dynamic environment characterized by change,
uncertainty, unpredictability and surprise.
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• Inclusive, creative local cultures shaping a positive, welcoming sense of
place
• A localising economy that sustains food, energy water, housing and other
resources
• Strong links to other places and communities

8. Cloughjordan
A Resilient Village

9. Cloughjordan
www.thevillage.ie

10. www.thevillage.ie
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for sustainabl od e l
e living into t
century a nd w he 21st
education, en ill act as an
terprise, rese
and service re arch
source for all”

13. Working Together
In Irish the word 'Meitheal' evokes the
sense of community spirit that brings
groups of neighbours and friends to
work and create together.

14. Time Food
Sharing
Land Tools

15. Gardening Together Farming Together
Cooperation
Learning Together Playing Together

16. Community Supported Agriculture
WWOOFERS
Cloughjordan
Community
Farm

17. Community Supported Livelihoods

18. Community Celebration

19. Transition Initiatives
an idea goes mainstream.
www.transitionnetwork.org

20. Kinsale > Totnes > The World
Now 3000 initiatives in over 34 countries
practices
se set of principles and
oo ation and
Transition M
odel is a l e though experiment
The over tim er to build
that have b een built up es as they work togeth
uniti economy a nd reduce
observati on of comm n the local
al resilienc e, strengthe
loc
carbon em issions.

21. ‘Transition Town’ is an inspiring
vision and action plan for how a
community can transition to an
energy lean, carbon constrained,
and relocalised future that is
abundant, sustainable, pleasurable,
and resilient.

22. Community Resilience
Davie Philip, davie@cultivate.ie