The
Communities, Housing and Public Protection Committee endorsed a report today on
the Community Empowerment Strategy 2023-2026.
Community Empowerment focuses on
enabling and building strong personal and community resilience, creating social
relationships and building collective power.
The Community Empowerment Strategy,
which complements and supports the Aberdeen City Local Outcome Improvement
Plan, acknowledges the power inequalities that exist across the city and makes
a commitment to understand and address these.
The
strategy defines what improvement will look like by 2026, setting out an
ambition that all communities are equal community planning partners and aims to
ensure more people feel able to participate in decisions that change things for
the better.
This adds to the 15 priority outcomes within the Aberdeen City
Local Outcome Improvement Plan (LOIP).
The
strategy includes a portal to new tools and a resources web page, that will
have practical tips and advice for any individual or organisation seeking to
make an improvement or engage with the local community.
Communities, Housing and Public
Protection Committee Convener Councillor Miranda Radley said: “The Community
Empowerment Strategy will benefit our local communities and help us to
understand the power inequalities that exist in order to better address them.”
Vice-convener Councillor Ciaran McRae
said: “It is crucial that work is done to ensure that everyone’s voice is
heard, and all residents can influence what happens in their
communities.”