This chapter describes how the municipality of Bergen has worked with area development in two (of five) relatively deprived areas, indre Laksevåg and Ytre Arna. Since 2012, these geographical areas have been included in a national program aimed at improving deprived areas, with a focus on both their inhabitants and physical infrastructure. The included areas were prioritized based on several years of mapping and research, confirming the importance of comprehensive and coherent area development. A methodology highlighting participation has been applied in the two areas, and selected specific methods are presented theoretically in this chapter. Dialogue and collaboration with residents and other actors in these areas are identified as essential approaches.
Subsequently, results achieved in collaboration with the local population are presented. Sustainability has been a key concept, first and foremost to strengthen the local communities we have worked in. This chapter describes how the program with area development in indre Laksevåg and Ytre Arna is phased out, and the process connected to this. Added to this, the chapter describes how the two areas is organized and how this is linked to collective mobilization, sustainability and capacity building.
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