A New Approach to Sustainable Development - Al Baharna Nazar

The greatest challenge and aspiration of the 21st century is sustainable development. A basic method for sustainable development addresses the two most pressing and human-perpetuated crises of this time in history namely the critical issues of climate and natural resource crises as well as the steadily worsening levels of poverty in most of the world’s population.

The Community Development Enterprise, CDE, approach to development, with its focus on the people, proposes a Holistic Rights Based solution to sustainable development, covering all the pillars of sustainable development, namely; Governance, Environment, Social, Economy, and Cultural. A solution which is a cross between decentralization and micro-business models. It will ensure a shift from centralized development to community development through a process that would facilitate the establishment and/or strengthening of the relationship of the organizations with its community. Thus, shifting development away from a solution that is merely economical, and providing a solution that will be real and durable. Such a development will be shaped by the Government and driven by a pioneering private sector – a development that raises a broad middle-class people who will enjoy good living standards through increased productivity and high-wage jobs.