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The '''Monitor of the Community Economy in Amsterdam''' is a 2025 report by Nathalie van Loon and Aisling Kloosterhuis that maps for the first time the scale and scope of Amsterdam's community economy movement.

== Description ==

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"Amsterdam has a large movement of resident collectives and organizations; operating between the market and the government, they take charge of various facilities and societal challenges. For example, they manage and organize local food production, care networks, energy communities, community savings groups (kasmoni's), urban villages, housing, and shared mobility.

This Community Economy Monitor maps the scale and scope of that movement for the first time. The community economy is an important partner and factor in the transition to make the city fairer, more sustainable, and social. Because knowledge and data are still often scattered and fragmented, this monitor has been developed: an instrument to make the Amsterdam community economy visible and to strengthen it. It is based on a shared, systematic, and repeatable methodology—developed in collaboration with the Department of Research and Statistics, academics, and communities—in order to develop and monitor targeted policy with measurable and clear goals."
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== Significance ==

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"A vibrant city without initiatives from, with, and by the community is unthinkable—they ensure the city functions where systems sometimes fail or fall short. And instead of competition, it is about cooperation, participation, and democracy. The initiatives add value—which lies not only in money, but also in time, attention, wellbeing, reciprocity, trust, and social cohesion. In this way, resident initiatives are both a democratic and an economic force.

This monitor makes the community economy visible, helps communities grow further, and strengthens their significance for the city. The monitor is also an invitation to develop policy that creates space for that community economy."
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== See Also ==

* [[Community Economy]]
* [[Urban Commons]]
* [[Amsterdam]]
* [[Solidarity Economy]]

== Source ==

* [https://openresearch.amsterdam/nl/page/130962/monitor-gemeenschapseconomie Monitor Gemeenschapseconomie - Open Research Amsterdam]

[[Category:Commons]]
[[Category:Urban Planning]]
[[Category:Netherlands]]
[[Category:Community Economy]]