NCLB 2006-2015
NCLB’s Approach
Building Safe and Vibrant Neighbourhoods

No Community Left Behind helps communities in getting consistently engaged in planning and implementation for local development with the help of all service providers.
The NCLB approach and process strengthen community capacity to increase the quality of life, and promote long-term community health and resilience.
In communities where crime is a major issue of concern, the strategy involves a two-pronged approach: law enforcement agencies and partner agencies cooperate in removing criminal elements and public agencies and community-based organizations collaborate to invest in much-needed human services, including prevention, intervention, treatment, and neighborhood restoration programs. A community-oriented policing component bridges these two prongs of the approach.
Communities are always different and dynamic. Major issues of concern vary from community to community. The NCLB strategy helps the community put an ongoing process in place, whereby they come up with a community action plan every year after an assessment. The plan is approved by the Steering committee and a systematic review takes place after implementation of identified activities for addressing the prioritized problems.
In short, the purpose of No Community Left Behind is to implement a comprehensive approach towards social development approach at local level which also helps in crime prevention where crime is the major concern. This approach is being successfully applied to address the roots of the problems in the partner communities and improve community members’ overall quality of life. NCLB’s community engagement process is comprised of:
- Organising a steering group
- Conducting needs assessment
- Prioritising Issues
- Action Planning
- Implementation
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Review & Readjustment
- Continuing the cycle
LEAD COMMUNITIES
Community House Partners
The following neighbourhoods played a key role in the initial implementation and role-modelling the NCLB strategies from 2005 to 2007.