Examine the main features of the community oriented approach to sustainable development.

 Sustainable Development is above all about development that is sustainable. As we like to put it at the Economic Commission for Africa, sustainable development is the merger of human well-being and natural resource stewardship. It focuses on the quality of life for present and future generations and encompasses the economic, social and environmental contexts of development. It entails complex processes with many interacting factors, which affect the lives of everyone and make it everybody’s business.

Achieving sustainable development therefore requires participatory and multi-stakeholder approaches, involving a wide range of actors: Governments, private sector, Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs), academia, grassroots organisations and other interest groups  The mention of partnerships over 40 times in the WSSD Declaration and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation placed on partnerships as a strategic approach to narrowing the gap between policy and practice in the quest for sustainable development.

And, during the Summit process, 209 partnership initiatives were launched to address five priority areas of sustainable development, namely, Water and sanitation, Energy,health and environment Agriculture, and Biodiversity and Ecosystem management – i.e. the WEHAB Initiative of the UN Secretary General). Since then, the number of partnerships for si the Eleventh Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-11) and 291 by CSD-12. Sustainable development means building our communities so that we can all live comfortably without consuming all of our resources. We make an impact on our environment through how we live our lives.

Another way to say this is that we all leave an ecological footprint. Imagine yourself in a garden. If you were to run around the garden wearing heavy boots, you would probably do a lot of damage to the fruits and vegetables growing there. If you were to walk carefully through the garden in bare feet, you would be able to eat just as many fruits and vegetables as the person wearing heavy boots, but you would also be leaving a lot more for yourself and others to eat the next day. It is the same thing with our resources. Living in a sustainable way means leaving more of things we all need to share, like water, energy, clean air and forests, for future generations.

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