1.Capacity Building Progamme
Aim: To empower households and communities to access knowledge and resources enabling them to determine their own solutions to development and providing support to engage in a sustainable livelihood approach.
Objectives:
- Developing and implementing relevant capacity building interventions and programmes.
- Implementing enabling, developmental training, reflecting the social teachings of the church.
- Develop relevant training materials and tools.
- Piloting identified programmes/interventions at community level.
- Ensure national and international exposure/learning.
- Ensure resources can be accessed by the Most Marginalised Citizens.
- Ensure continuous support to projects.
- Strengthen organisational infrastructure of regional and diocesan structures.
- Effective horizontal and vertical co-ordination, monitoring and evaluation.
Activities:
- Development training focusing on creating an enabling environment for community based responses.
- Strengthening the local level institution.
- Organic Farming training.
- Accessing Social Grants training.
- Emotional Development and Trauma Management training.
- Lay counsellor training.
2.Economic Strengthening
Aim: To expand the income and resource base of the most marginalized citizens.
Objectives:
- Support income generating activities through the provision of financial grants.
- Provision of logistical support to access Social Grants.
- Accessing affordable savings and credit.
- Providing assistance to the unemployed in order to empower them to find or create employment.
3.Service Delivery Progamme
Aim: To expand access to and improve quality of community based service delivery.
Objectives:
- Provision of support for community based models of basic service delivery around land, water, housing, fuel.
- Provision of support to Orphans and Vulnerable Children and the youth.
- Provision of Support to the Aged.
- Supporting community based models of boosting the immune system.
- Providing support, including sporting and other recreational activities to rural youth, as a means of facilitating their personal growth and their assimilation into society.
- Combating the incidence and effects of domestic violence.
- Forming alliances and partnerships with like-minded secular and faith-based organisations with aims and objects which are the same as or similar to the objectives of the Trust.
4.Lobbying / Advocacy Programme
Aim: Eradicating the root causes of poverty through creating linkeages and brokering partnerships with duty bearers and creating opportunities for public policy engagement.
Objectives:
- Creating a voice of the most marginalized citizens within the Siyabhabha Network.
- Creating linkeages with like minded social movements.
- Demistifying the planning and budgeting process at local level and building capacity of FBO's to engage in Integrated Development Planning at local level.
- Documenting good practice stories.
- Lobbying and Advocacy.
5.Caritas Programme
Aim: The aim of the Caritas programme is to support communities affected by natural and man made disasters.
Objectives:
- To respond effectively to Orphans and Vulnerable Children.
- Establish viable committees able to respond to community needs in times of crisis.
- Provide an efficient mechanism for the distribution of aid in time of crisis.
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