Strengthening Equitable Community Resilience Criteria and Guiding Principles for the Gulf Research Program's Enhancing Community Resilience (EnCoRe) Initiative (2023) / Chapter Skim
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4 Proposed Criteria and Guiding Principles for Community Selection
4 Proposed Criteria and Guiding Principles for Community Selection
Pages 49-57
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The criteria represent the desired attributes of communities, while the guiding principles represent overarching precepts for aligning EnCoRe community selection and engagement with GRP's vision and goals for the program. The criteria and guiding principles flow from the findings and recommendations in Chapter 2 related to reimagining resilience and the use of participatory approaches to engaging communities, and from Box 3.1 that covers lessons learned from past and existing resiliencestrengthening programs.
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Concretely, EnCoRe's work is expected to involve building relationships and partnerships through direct community engagement, supporting existing and new local health and resilience efforts, and working with communities to build capacity in areas such as measuring health and resilience, and strengthening community leadership. See Chapter 2 for a more detailed discussion of EnCoRe plans and assumptions.
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The findings and recommendations developed in Chapters 2 and insights developed in Chapter 3 provide a framework and rationale for approaches available to EnCoRe that may not be feasible for government or private funders. For example, community engagements can be phased, with efforts to identify and train community champions, launch pilot projects, build networks and collaboratives, and other preparatory work leading into more extensive engagement efforts focused on a variety of specific communities.
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For example, some coastal communities in the Gulf region that are heavily impacted by acute surge flooding and sea level rise may be caught in what sociologist Ian Gray has called the "treadmill of protection" -- increasing levels of government-backed expenditures that seek to defend economic viability, regardless of social, economic, or environmental consequence. The treadmill of protection can also include actions aimed at preventing immediate loss that may work to secure incumbent extractive industries, such as offshore oil and gas drilling, which contribute to the very vulnerabilities requiring intervention in the first place (Gray, 2021)
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Conceiving of communities participating in EnCoRe -- both as a totality and as regional groups -- as a learning network underlines the importance of keeping communities engaged in evaluation processes. It will be important for EnCoRe and prospective participating communities to agree on one or more intended outcomes that ultimately define what enhanced resilience will look like in that particular community.
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The importance of assessing existing community capacity and taking this into account when designing partnerships is discussed above in reference to the value of a flexible approach to engagement and assessing needs. Communities with varying levels and types of existing capacity will benefit from participation in the EnCoRe program, and various approaches to forming and developing partnerships can be taken to address the needs of diverse communities.
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Baseline assessments could also document past, present, and anticipated future shocks and stressors to communities -- as well as inventory capacity to withstand or avoid those shocks and stressors using frameworks such as the six community capitals of resilience and the social determinants of health. A baseline evaluation of the community's readiness to engage in EnCoRe would also facilitate support and consultation efforts, as readiness is understood to be a function of 55
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This assessment work at the outset of the partnership can also help ensure that any research activities undertaken as part of EnCoRe partnerships will generate and apply knowledge that is relevant to community needs and reflects understanding of existing community resources and information. This framework can also foster respect for existing community resilience, which is "necessary to respond to chronic adversities and structural inequities that lead to historical trauma through multiple generations" (Mowe, 2017, para.
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EnCoRe has the mission, resources, and flexibility to reach and engage with underserved communities on a longterm basis. In this way, EnCoRe has the potential to make a unique and long-lasting contribution to community resilience and health, and its degree of success in this area will be important to the overall success of the program.
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