Enablement

BuildAction enables and facilitates stakeholder involvement and participation in the sustainable development and operation of communities by mobilizing interest, engagement, interaction and support for a particular development policy or action.  The platform provides the tools to communicate, collaborate, cooperate and coordinate the involvement of other interested stakeholders.

The mobilization of citizens and other stakeholders to take civic action at the community level is critical for the development and protection of the local built environment.  To participate in the process, public awareness must be raised and complementary action between diverse sectors and stakeholders must be coordinated.

A community’s stakeholders must interact to advance the sustainable development and use of land, buildings and infrastructure.  BuildAction facilitates the required communication, collaboration, cooperation and coordination of collaborative action by interested stakeholders.

Stakeholders must increase their involvement and sense of responsibility to gain broad political support for land-use intervention.  Stakeholder participation influences community decisions and allows for the engagement of the community in decision-making and for stakeholders to exercise their civic responsibility to manage, control and govern the local built environment.

Participation involves contributing ideas, making decisions, and taking responsibility.  This includes the planning, monitoring and governance of programs, creating and maintaining organizations in support of these efforts, and evaluating the effects and adjusting goals and programs on an ongoing basis.

Community participation requires stakeholders to assume greater responsibility for assessing the needs and obtaining solutions for the protection and sustainable development and operation of their community.  Democracy requires stakeholder participation and responsibility within our system of governance.

Stakeholders must bear the responsibility for their society if they are to benefit from its development and operation and the protection of their rights.  To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the development of communities calls for urgent and immediate stakeholder collaboration and cooperation to realize shared goals.