Tackling Difficult Estates

Based on practitioners’ experience of making things work on the ground, severalcommon themes emerged. These themes prompted questions about how success can bereplicated, how to overcome obstacles, and what role government can play.The themes were:• scaling down and linking up;• cutting across boundaries and an area focus;• performance incentives;• the role of charisma, innovation, leadership and flexibility;• community capacity and involvement;• starting points;• organisation and bureaucracy.[...]