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to community wellbeing can cause tensions at the community level. Current processes
intended to up-skill informal miners and the broader community need further development in order to help locals enhance their capacity to obtain gainful employment and
therefore foster community wellbeing. However, the participation of multiple stakeholders is vital to foster entrepreneurship based on community wellbeing. This emerging view is likely to deliver relevant employment opportunities and prepare locals for
adverse impacts derived from the escalation of resource extraction.
Entrepreneurship for community wellbeing is an essential asset for enhancing
other human capital such as income and employment. Existing community wellbeing approaches are mainly mining oriented, particularly in the Antioquia case,
which is becoming a limitation for locals whose livelihood options and development aspirations are not always directly linked to the mining industry. Thus, it is
recommended that entrepreneurship for community wellbeing education be secured
for locals in non-mining subjects. These subjects need to enhance locals’ abilities to
take up entrepreneurship or employment opportunities that are offered outside the
mining sector.
The dearth of both gainful entrepreneurship options and appropriate education in
this field is hindering locals in achieving their development aspirations and improving community wellbeing. This is leading to diminished opportunities for income
generation and preventing them from employing other human capital assets they
may have access to. Entrepreneurship for community wellbeing should be adopted
by multiple stakeholders at all levels of governance and involve private organisations and civil society. This will help stakeholders to immerse themselves in the
contexts of the most vulnerable communities in developing resource regions and
tackle the structural disconnects (extreme poverty, inequality and conflict) that prevent communities in Colombia and elsewhere in Latin America from fostering sustainable wellbeing and following their dreams of sustainable development.
Acknowledgements One of the authors would also like to thank Les and Lee Boby and Reta and
Albert Basnett for the inspiration to work with communities.
References
Akudugu MA (2011) Rural banks’ financial capital and livelihoods development of women farmers in Ghana. J Enterp Commun 5(4):248–264
Anderson AR (2000) Paradox in the periphery: an entrepreneurial reconstruction? Entrep Reg Dev
12(2):91–109
AngloGold Ashanti (2008) Colombia: country report. Retrieved March 25, 2014 from http://www.
anglogold.com/NR/rdonlyres/1103A1F1-D744-4220-B726-6E48242F7039/0/Colombia2008.
pdf
Bacq S, Janssen F (2011) The multiple faces of social entrepreneurship: a review of definitional
issues based on geographical and thematic criteria. Entrep Reg Dev 23(5–6):373–403
Banerjee SB (2011) Voices of the governed: towards a theory of the translocal. Organization
18(3):323–344
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to community wellbeing can cause tensions at the community level. Current processes
intended to up-skill informal miners and the broader community need further development in order to help locals enhance their capacity to obtain gainful employment and
therefore foster community wellbeing. However, the participation of multiple stakeholders is vital to foster entrepreneurship based on community wellbeing. This emerging view is likely to deliver relevant employment opportunities and prepare locals for
adverse impacts derived from the escalation of resource extraction.
Entrepreneurship for community wellbeing is an essential asset for enhancing
other human capital such as income and employment. Existing community wellbeing approaches are mainly mining oriented, particularly in the Antioquia case,
which is becoming a limitation for locals whose livelihood options and development aspirations are not always directly linked to the mining industry. Thus, it is
recommended that entrepreneurship for community wellbeing education be secured
for locals in non-mining subjects. These subjects need to enhance locals’ abilities to
take up entrepreneurship or employment opportunities that are offered outside the
mining sector.
The dearth of both gainful entrepreneurship options and appropriate education in
this field is hindering locals in achieving their development aspirations and improving community wellbeing. This is leading to diminished opportunities for income
generation and preventing them from employing other human capital assets they
may have access to. Entrepreneurship for community wellbeing should be adopted
by multiple stakeholders at all levels of governance and involve private organisations and civil society. This will help stakeholders to immerse themselves in the
contexts of the most vulnerable communities in developing resource regions and
tackle the structural disconnects (extreme poverty, inequality and conflict) that prevent communities in Colombia and elsewhere in Latin America from fostering sustainable wellbeing and following their dreams of sustainable development.
Acknowledgements One of the authors would also like to thank Les and Lee Boby and Reta and
Albert Basnett for the inspiration to work with communities.
References
Akudugu MA (2011) Rural banks’ financial capital and livelihoods development of women farmers in Ghana. J Enterp Commun 5(4):248–264
Anderson AR (2000) Paradox in the periphery: an entrepreneurial reconstruction? Entrep Reg Dev
12(2):91–109
AngloGold Ashanti (2008) Colombia: country report. Retrieved March 25, 2014 from http://www.
anglogold.com/NR/rdonlyres/1103A1F1-D744-4220-B726-6E48242F7039/0/Colombia2008.
Bacq S, Janssen F (2011) The multiple faces of social entrepreneurship: a review of definitional
issues based on geographical and thematic criteria. Entrep Reg Dev 23(5–6):373–403
Banerjee SB (2011) Voices of the governed: towards a theory of the translocal. Organization
18(3):323–344
13 SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production