Community Economic Development, Canada
Niagara Peninsula Homes presents its new food box scheme as part of the CED programme in Ontario
Community Economic Development, 1993-1995
Whilst leading the Community Economic Development Secretariat (CED) in Toronto between 1993-1995, Robin was tasked with supporting initiatives on the ground and setting up pilots. This involved working with communities to develop a broad range of social economy projects and networks - from local bakery networks, francophone food co-operatives, food box schemes, amongst many others. He was also involved with Green$aver, a green community program, elements of which were brought back to the UK after 1995.
Riel Miller, Wing Ah Fung and CED colleagues, Stelco Steelworks, Hamilton, Ontario, 1994
Collaboration, Emergence and Diffusion: An Experimental Approach to Community Economic Development
Riel Miller and Hilary Wainwright discuss the innovative CED programme in Canada, the challenges of taking a collaborative, emergent approach to community economic development within the constraints of a mechanistic and technocratic civil service, the issue of whether ‘scaling’ is a useful concept in this context, and whether taking a more experimental approach requires a different kind of education for public administrators and political leaders.