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Place-based initiative
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A place-based initiative is an umbrella term that refers to a variety of social programmes that reflect the characteristics of a particular location. Common features Place-based initiatives are united by the following features: * the desire to achieve multiple social outcomes; * through a variety of interventions; * involving collaboration between several different organisations * with a degree of community engagement; * and a focus on a defined physical area. Variations Place-based initiatives vary in the: * outcomes they try to achieve; * social mechanisms they seek to change; * method of engagement they seek to deploy. History The term place-based initiative seems to have entered common parlance at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The types of initiative referred to by the term long predated it. |
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