DEVELOPMENT IS LIKE A TREE
|1.ROOTS |2.TRUNK |
|Basis of the development and acts as the starting point like project|Supports the development and acts as the pillar, |
|design, |Mobilising support from all stakeholders |
|An indepth stakeholder analysis, |Creating an enabling environment through appropriate |
|Mobilising,organizing and involving the community contribution, |policy,governance and institutional reform for development to thrive|
|Needs assessment undertaken and initial requests and prioritisation,|better, |
|Goal setting and laying out of the objectives,vision and mission, |Institutionalize the leadership function in community based groups, |
|Provision of education and information to create awareness and |Facilitating flows of information among all groups in a community, |
|sensitization, |Lobbying and advocacy at all levels, |
|Facilitating community access to information through a variety of |Strengthening local groups that are inclusive can increase poor |
|media, and increasingly through information technology, |people’s voice in local political processes and governance, |
|Give control of decisions and resources to community groups, |Build participatory mechanisms for community control and stakeholder|
|Treats community as assets and partners in the development process, |involvement, |
|building on their institutions and resources, |Develop simple rules and strong incentives, supported by monitoring |
|Traditional decisionmaking mechanisms are used to establish |and evaluation, |
|community priorities. |Investing in capacity building of CBOs, |
| |and strengthening linkages with formal institutions. |
|3.TWIGS/BRANCHES |4.FRUITS/LEAVES |
|Signifies the development partners like NGO’s,CBO and support |Signifies the impact and outcomes of the development program, |
|groups, |Expanded people’s real freedoms and empowerment through devolved |
|Creation of social networks and social capital which is critical for|control and decision making and governance, |
|long-term growth and development |Efficiency and quality gains in outreach, social mobilization, and |
|Support the rapid expansion in membership of social networks to |community capacity building making, |
|enhance sustainability and lasting results at the grassroots level,|Enhanced impact on poverty reduction, |
|Training and capacity building of community groups through “learning|Significantly higher growth rate of per capita consumption in each |
|by doing” and training of trainers |household, |
|CBOs and other stand-alone groups |Increased efficiency and effectiveness of poverty reduction efforts,|
|Development strategies that strengthen CBOs and build social capital|Strong social capital and social trust-likely to have a stronger |
| |capacity for collective action and thus be more effective in |
|Ensure that an exit strategy is in place for intermediaries. |self-organizing and governing development projects. |