Issue 8 EAST ASIA SPECIAL ISSUE Foreword Contents Charlie McConnell About IACD Editorial .............................................................................04 Community organizing IACD is the only global network for professional community for residents who are living in development practitioners. We support development sub-divided flats ................................................................06 agencies and practitioners to build the capacity of Working with people in communities to realise greater social and economic equality, non-decent housing ..........................................................08 environmental protection and political democracy. Grassroots Organizing What do we do? in Hong Kong ....................................................................10 IACD links people to each other. We facilitate learning and practice exchange, both virtually Innovative Community and face-to-face. We work with partners to deliver regional, national and international Periodically IACD publishes a special events, study visits and conferences. We document the work that our members are doing Economic Venture – The Case of issue of Practice Insights magazine. around the world by collecting case studies, tools and materials on community Sharing Kitchen HK ..........................................................12 These have usually been thematic e.g. development, and sharing these through our website, publications and ebulletins. We carry about poverty or the Sustainable out research projects, drawing on international experience. Heritage preservation in Development Goals. This special issue is IACD aims to give its members a voice at the global level, advocating for community geographic. It profiles community old urban community – “Viva development principles and practice in international forums and consultations. IACD development initiatives in eastern Asia, Blue House” revitalization project .................................14 has consultative status with the UN and its agencies. with a strong spotlight upon parts of China. Our guest editor and IACD East People Service Centre – Contributing articles Asia Director, Kwok-kin Fung has “The Food Friend Action” gathered together over a dozen articles. Our international Practice Insights publications are issued three times a year, each one Most are case studies, written either by Food Recycling Program .................................................18 focusing on a particular theme of relevance to community development. If you would like practitioners or research scholars further information or to contribute to future editions, please contact charlie.mcconnell@ working in the community development Community Building iacdglobal.org Alternatively, IACD members are welcome at any time to contribute news field. As with all of the articles in Practice and Civil Society – Practices and items, research, case studies or other materials to our members’ Facebook site and to the Insights, they are intended to be short, Experiences of Taiwan .....................................................20 IACD website. giving the busy reader a glimpse into work in the area, together with the From Social Service to Join us contact details of the author/s should readers wish to make contact. Huge Solidarity Economy – Local Tribal For full details and to join, go to www.iacdglobal.org/join-us. thanks to the authors and above all to Communal Kitchen in Da’An KK and his colleague Chan Yu Cheung, Benefits of membership include: Basin of Taiwan ................................................................24 for getting this issue together. đƫƫDaily Facebook News posts about community and international development; We have been asked many times New Development đƫƫAccess to the Global Community Development Exchange resource bank on the IACD whether Practice Insights is peer of Urban Community Service website; reviewed and the answer is yes. At least in China .............................................................................26 đƫƫOpportunities to participate in Practice Exchange study visits; two external people look at each article. đƫƫDiscounted rates at IACD conferences; Practice Insights is not however intended Community Reconstruction to be an academic journal, but rather a đƫƫDiscounted subscriptions to the Community Development Journal; practitioner magazine. There are over a Projects in China: The empowerment đƫƫOpportunities to share your work and experiences with a global audience, through our dozen academic community of a dysfunctional community in website, Facebook sites and other publications; development journals around the world Pearl River Delta ..............................................................28 and, as IACD members will know, we đƫƫMembers also have the opportunity to nominate to serve on the IACD Board of Directors. have had a longstanding relationship Our next Annual General Meeting will take place in July 2018. Neighborhood Community with the international Community Project in Macau ...............................................................30 Development Journal (CDJ) published by Oxford University Press. Indeed the February 2017 edition of CDJ also looked Educational Tourism at eastern Asia, co-edited by KK Fung and Community Development: and Gary Craig, IACD Past President. An Insight for Malaysian Practice .................................32 (see https://academic.oup.com/cdj/ issue/52/1). “Balik-Tanaw” Revisiting Community www.iacdglobal.org Development in the Philippines .....................................34 The views expressed in this publication are primarily those of the respective authors and not necessarily those of IACD. 2 Practice Insights | Issue 7 Read IACD’s Daily News on community development from around the world Read IACD’s Daily News on community development from around the world www.facebook.com/IACDglobal/ Issue 8 | Practice Insights 3 Food Friendly Action”, which is a food development of social work practice in legacy of decades of community recycling programme to integrate China, the article by Leung reports on development in the Philippines from the Editorial environmental concerns and mutual how the local government of Lunjiao in 1960s to the present day, concluding help of disadvantaged communities, Foshan, Guangdong, responded in that community development has Fung, Kwok-kin demonstrates another alternative implementing Community become an ‘in-word’ for many initiatives. strategy for community economic Reconstruction Projects in its villages. development. The project has set up Leung as a social work ofcer from All these articles offer the food recycling service system for Hong Kong Chinese Civil Servants the rich experiences of a low income community to support Association has been invited by the In Hong Kong, the Philippines and disadvantaged in local communities community development the people in need. It successfully built Foshan government in helping to design Taiwan, community development has of Hong Kong. The Alliance adopts practice in the East Asian up the community based mutual help the community projects. It reflects how had its long history since the 1960s, but the conflict approach and unites the networks and facilitated user social work professionals are involved region and unravel the practitioners have been undergoing disadvantaged communities to fight participation in the project. in the development of social work diversified strategies adopted changes in their practices in response to on diferent poverty issues, including services in mainland China, with in response to the changing the neoliberal changes in government social security policy, split-flat housing Lu, who is the Chairman of Taiwan community development included. needs, despite constraints and policy. For the case of Hong Kong, problems, youth poverty, etc. Moreover, Community Alliance as well as Chairman limitations, including the following the residual welfare orientation, the Alliance initiates activities to develop of the Association of Community- All these projects aim at enhancement the government has attempted to freeze community-based economy to help the Activists in Taiwan, reported on the of the social functioning of village marginalizing and unfriendly the subvention of community low-income communities as well. These historical and political background of members by rebuilding their community policies of different development services and has various community economic initiatives community building in Taiwan. The capital like trust, neighbourhood governments, and limited emphasized the role of community include development of collective Taiwan government has implemented networks, local economic activities and resources and cultural in supporting families in need. In the production, facilitating collective the community building policy and has social cohesion. The projects help the differences in different cases covered in this issue on the local purchases, organizing local bazaars, continually invested resources into the villages to build up their local economy, communities. community practices, the community and building up local exchange community since the 1990s. The such as eco-tourism, and temple cultural practitioners demonstrate their trading systems. community building practices emphasize activities, to nurture community leaders All in all, it is crucial for all community diversified strategies to respond to the bottom-up approach in identifying and the identity of the village members. practitioners and academies