Co-production: A Manifesto for Growing the Core Economy

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This paper from the New Economics Foundation offers an explanation of co-production, or a means of building community based on a sense of shared responsibility and mutual support. The point of co-production, according to the paper, is to encourage the use of human skills and experience to help deliver public or voluntary service. Rather than defining community members by their needs, co-production defines individuals based on the skills they possess and ways in which they can contribute to public service.

This paper from the New Economics Foundation offers an explanation of co-production, or a means of building community based on a sense of shared responsibility and mutual support. The point of co-production, according to the paper, is to encourage the use of human skills and experience to help deliver public or voluntary service. Rather than defining community members by their needs, co-production defines individuals based on the skills they possess and ways in which they can contribute to public service. 

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Genuine co-production, according to the paper, will always: define public service clients as assets who have skills that are vital to the delivery of services; define work to include anything that people do to support each other; include some element of reciprocity; build community; and support resilience.

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