Question

What are community rights and responsibilities?

Answer 1

Answer:

If we have any problems with the municipal corporations’ facilities, we can report them to the authorities. Damaged street lights, bad roads, and even a water deficit are examples of these problems. But what if contacting government authorities feels like an ongoing process.

Community rights and responsibilities

Communities have rights and responsibilities to their members as well as to other communities. An empowered community is aware of these connections and how they affect the community as well as other communities.

Community rights

• The right to its own identity
• The right to access skills and resources within the wider community
• The right to support its members within the wider community
• The right to set its own agenda, constitution and institutions
• The right to participate within the wider community
• The right to protect its members from influences that disadvantage its members, etc

Responsibilities

• To ensure the agenda, constitution and institutions of the community, protect and support its members, as well as other communities and their members
• To facilitate the development of valued roles and relationships for the community, its members, as well as other communities and their members
• To provide a safe, secure environment for its members, as well as other communities and their members, etc.