Action 2
The Interagency Working Group on Sustainable Development Indicators, working
with human service providers and community-based indicator projects, should
develop indicators that can better measure social capital and local capacity.
There are several measures of social capital. One is the type and frequency of
interactions within and outside the community. Examples are inventories of
civic associations that provide information on members including numbers and
characteristics such as age, gender, race, and disabilities. Such inventories
can show frequency of meetings, decision-making processes, finances, and
services provided to members and nonmembers. Another measurement is the impact
of various types of social capital on the ability to reach sustainable
development goals. This effort should, at a minimum, examine each of these
measures of social capital.
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