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At the request of the World Bank, the CSIR Boutek's Susan Liebermann recently presented a training workshop on Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) in Jamaica as part of a "Basic Urban Services for the Poor" project. Urban violence prevention and reduction is one of the key outcomes of this project and CPTED is understood by the World Bank to be one of the key cross-sectoral approaches to achieve this. The fundamental concept is that the physical environment can be changed to impact on criminal behaviour in a way that will reduce the incidence and fear of crime and improve the quality of life.
CPTED focuses on the settings of crime rather than on the perpetrators and the Bank has been supporting the use of this approach in several of its programmes in Latin America. With the Jamaica Basic Urban Services for the Poor Project currently undergoing its preparation, it was considered timely to hold a CPTED workshop to expose the project implementing agency, community organisers, contractors and relevant government and non-governmental partners to its potential.
Ms Liebermann commented on the fact that the similarities between South Africa and Jamaica seem to outweigh the differences. The areas identified for upgrading are surprisingly similar to parts of Alexandra in Johannesburg, presumably because they too have been settled by the poor for, in some cases, going on for 60 years. Thus the feeling of permanence and rootedness is immediately apparent. In spite of this, the lack of services is familiarly depressing and hopefully will be addressed by the forthcoming upgrading programme.
One of the more positive aspects is that the implementing agency is a local autonomous government agency - the Jamaica Social Investment Fund, which aims to create conditions for community development through investment in small community driven projects. The agency has been implementing numerous infrastructure and other development projects in poor communities across the island since 1996, when these projects were initiated by government to reduce poverty. This will be the first integrated multi-sectoral programme the agency will implement. Liebermann comments that it was heartening to see the work this agency is carrying out; the range and level of expertise available was tremendously exciting to observe and proves what can be done through commitment and a sound concept in spite of limited resources. It is hoped that the people-driven CPTED training that formed part of the workshop will be taken up by this agency and become the foundation for informing the future technical environmental analysis.
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