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The report can be downloaded here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Local Authorities and Municipalities across Europe are facing unprecedented socio-economic challenges in the context of budget cuts and increasing demand. It is in this challenging environment that Local Authorities and Municipalities are looking for innovative approaches and practical instruments that support them to deliver their core aims and responsibilities.
\nCommunity Currencies are economic, policy and social instruments, complementing conventional money and addressing issues or problems that would otherwise remain unmet in the current money system. As such, they are unique tools for Local Authorities and Municipalities to integrate into their core delivery to address numerous high-priority issues. These include responding to increased health and social demands, building a vibrant local business economy, democratising public services and addressing environmental impacts. Community Currencies are economic, policy and social instruments, operating supplement to conventional money, addressing issues or problems that would otherwise remain unmet in the current money system.<\/p>\n

Section 1<\/strong> gives a brief overview of Community Currencies and introduces some of the key examples that will be utilised throughout the paper.<\/p>\n

Section 2<\/strong> then demonstrates how Community Currencies address a number of the key challenges and opportunities facing local authorities, focusing on four key areas of impact
\nin particular:
\n1.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Democratising services and improving service delivery
\n2.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Supporting the SME economy
\n3.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Countering inequality and social exclusion
\n4.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Addressing environmental impacts<\/p>\n

Through multiple examples of Community Currencies from across northwest Europe (NWE) designed to deliver these four outcomes, Section 3<\/strong> explores the different roles that Local Authorities and Municipalities can play in the development, implementation and evaluation of currency projects. Six distinct levels of engagement for Local Authorities and Municipalities will be introduced, namely: championing; participating; sponsoring; co-partnering; integrating; and leading.<\/p>\n

Finally, Section 4<\/strong> summarises the opportunity and challenges for Local Authorities and Municipalities in implementing Community Currencies.
\nThe majority of examples including in this paper are taken from pilot currencies of the Community Currencies in Action (CCIA) project. Part-funded by the European Union\u2019s Interreg project, CCIA is the largest ever transnational project in the community currency field, bringing together expert partners from across NWE and coordinating six pilot currencies in the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands and France.<\/p>\n

The whole report can be downloaded here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The report can be downloaded here. Local Authorities and Municipalities across Europe are facing unprecedented socio-economic challenges in the context of budget cuts and increasing demand. It is in this challenging environment that Local Authorities and Municipalities are looking for innovative approaches and practical instruments that support them to deliver their core aims and responsibilities. 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