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to ensure more security at home and workplace, target crime problems and take action to prevent them.<\/strong><\/p>\n Key Innovation<\/strong> Problematic background and context<\/strong> Solution description<\/strong> Timeframe<\/strong> Development phase<\/strong> Revenue\/costs model<\/strong> Social evaluation<\/strong> Environmental evaluation<\/strong> Economical evaluation<\/strong> Authors<\/strong> to ensure more security at home and workplace, target crime problems and take action to prevent them. Key Innovation people (neighbours) have created a system where local communities are working against crime and rising a feeling of security. Problematic background and context Violence, theft and lack of safety are very actual themes in Estonia, more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-slider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/emude\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/emude\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/emude\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/emude\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/emude\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/emude\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/emude\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/emude\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/emude\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/emude\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/emude\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\npeople (neighbours) have created a system where local communities are working against crime and rising a feeling of security.<\/p>\n
\nViolence, theft and lack of safety are very actual themes in Estonia, more in some places than others. Being the victim of theft in Tallinn is possible in almost any part of the city. Also, some regions of the cities from more colorful stages of history need a lot of time of reconditioning or planning. Public areas like territories between the houses, yards, parking spaces, parks, playgrounds, pavements and etc. are often dark, left uncared for or have become a \u2019non-existent place\u2019, where thieves and homeless people can act in \u2019good conditions\u2019. The fast increasing problem is school violence and drugs among students. The Estonian Neighbourhood Watch (ENHW) had its roots in people\u2019s fear of crime and their desire to protect themselves. Personal motivations are to live in a healthy, sustainable and secure community and environment by socialising with each other.<\/p>\n
\nAim of the solution is to create a sense of security, which is offered by strong and open community \u2013 people know and help each other; people communicate with each other, there is an exchange of information; people are environment-friendly, care about neighbourhood. ENHW mission is community development and health promotion since it is only with a safe, inclusive and healthy city that there is real and lasting crime prevention. MT\u00dc \u201cEesti Naabrivalve\u201d (Nonprofitable Association \u201eEstonian Neighbourhood Watch\u201c) is an association founded as a civic initiative, goal of which is increasing of sense of security of dwellers at homes and close vicinity to homes by dweller\u2019s own active practice in the field of neighbourhood watch. Every sector (min. 50% of the appartments in one building or min. 4 private houses) has made a contract with ENHW, local municipality and local police department. Mostly every sector has its own police constable with who to communicate as often as needed. (Other people who are not joined ENHW doesn\u2019t have an advantage like this). Security firm is also a sponsor. Every member of the sector has all the contacts of other users, police, municipality and ENHW, a list of advices of how to react in different situations \u2013 all made and given by ENHW. Every user has a sticker called \u2019Neighbour Guards\u2019 to put on the window to acknowledge intruders and every house has posters to put on the buildings, fences and etc. to inform about neighbourhood watch area. ENHW also organize trainings to the head of the sectors and regular meetings with local municipalities. A contract made with the ENHW is quite unique in Europe as well as an association like ENHW which coordinates all the work of the neighbourhood watch. Addresses mainly social values, to care about others, environment and one\u2019s own home.<\/p>\n
\nMT\u00dc \u201cEesti Naabrivalve\u201d (Nonprofitable Association \u201eEstonian Neighbourhood Watch\u201c) is founded on May, 5th, 2000.<\/p>\n
\nDiffusion:
\nBy now there are 240 sectors with ca. 6500 persons joined with ENHW. A new web-page with police\u2019s announces of prosecuted thievies and an intranet only for ENHW users to exchange information will be launched in the recent future. Chairman of the board, Tarmo Vaik, and his team has developed several other important social security projects as \u201eBusiness Watch\u201c (2003\/04), \u201eSchool Watch\u201c (2003) and \u201eKindergarden Watch\u201c (2004). School Watch is highly needed in Estonia, because of school violence and usage of drugs among students. ENHW has founded a system that in every school there is a group of anonymus students to inform their contact person (constable or named teacher) about dangerous aspects. It has worked very effectively in the participated 25 schools in Tallinn. This year it will be expanded to other towns also. It is an unique case with award from EUCPN contest as a \u2019Most Promising Project\u2019.
\nMaturity:
\nENHW has attained strong position and rapid growth. It has warmly welcomed by every sector of the country and has approved a lot of positive media response. From the year 2005 15 new employees can be hired as the European Union Phare Access finances the program. Further work will go on by gaining more members as well as aiming more effective attention to joined areas and members. Also, school, kindergarden and business watch will be expanded.<\/p>\n
\nEvery new sector has to pay 100 EEK (=7 euros) starting fee to the ENHW. The membership fee for one sector is 100 EEK in a year which is paid by invoice payment. ENHW is financed by government, by a few local municipalities, sponsors and membership fees. Before 2005 there were 4 employees and 10 volunteers, now will be hired 15 employees as the European Phare Access program finances it.<\/p>\n
\nThe biggest value for society is that the solution demands people\u2019s active participation, through that people are able to change towards more valuable and better society, reliability and healthier environment. People have the chance to improve the condition by themselves. \u201eBig business\u201c done by vandalism as well as drug distribution among youngsters can be efficiently prevented. Thieves have already understood and felt the working strength of neighbourhood watch area.<\/p>\n
\nPeople learn to value what sorrounds them and what does it mean to live in a better organized environment.<\/p>\n
\nEconimically does not benefit anyone, if not to mention that the result of the thefts are money loss, through active neighbourhood watch that can be saved up. Critical point for ENHW is depending on government and their support.<\/p>\n
\nK\u00e4tlin Kangur, Anna Roomet \/ Estonian Academy of Arts \/ Estonia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"