Sustainable Livelihoods Project - (SLP)
The Fund’s Sustainable Livelihoods Project (SLP) was introduced in 2009 to address poverty experienced by families, especially in areas that have been identified by government as nodal points. These are areas that have a high rate of unemployment, low production because of various reasons and sometimes isolated in terms of securing basic services. The SLP aim to strengthen families and communities to cope with the situation of vulnerability while creating a better life and brighter future for the children.
SLP is designed to help communities to work out their way out of poverty by encouraging community members to form Self Help Groups (SHG’s). The SHG’s are engaged in savings mobilisation programmes and income generating activities, they also convene regular meetings to address challenges they face in their homes and communities.
The SHG’s are fully utilised as community support structure for possible interventions to challenges faced by families such as psychosocial support, linkages with government structures to provide necessary documentation for children such as birth certificates, Social Workers referrals and other related requirements to assist children in need.
The implementation of the Fund’s Sustainable Livelihoods Project within Goelama Programme has yielded positive results that are now showing among these communities. The Self Help Group model is proven to work and has been adapted by the Fund and its partners over the past seven years.
The Sustainable Livelihoods Project is a major thread across the three new strategic interventions of Child Survival and Development, Child Safety and Protection; and Youth Leadership.
SLP Objectives:
The objectives of the SLP under Child Survival and Development is to facilitate the establishment of the Health Self Help Groups (HSHG’s) to work with local clinics and health care workers on specific primary health care programmes. The other focus is on Children’s nutrition where identified communities are strengthened economically to deal with socio-economic challenges with the aim of improving the nutritional status of children.
Under the Child Safety and Protection ambit; the SLP will encourage Self Help Groups to work closely with schools in their locality to deal with the issues of safety and protection, particularly in reference to corporal punishment, sexual abuse and bullying.
Strengthening the Group members’ leadership skills is another valuable act that will empower them to lead and manage the programme effectively.
On Youth Leadership, the SLP’s approach to Youth Think Tanks will be treated as exclusively youth Self Help Groups with a Purpose (SHGWP). The SLP’s role will include strengthening the current Youth Self Help Groups to be active in the implementation and execution of the Fund’s new strategic youth leadership imperatives that focuses on Human Rights, Civic Participation; Youth Entrepreneurship and Ethical Leadership.
SLP OUTCOMES:
The envisaged project outcomes include among others, improved economic stability in the families, abused children receiving better care, counselling and support and reduced unemployment rate especially among the Youth.
SLP is designed to help communities to work out their way out of poverty by encouraging community members to form Self Help Groups (SHG’s). The SHG’s are engaged in savings mobilisation programmes and income generating activities, they also convene regular meetings to address challenges they face in their homes and communities.
The SHG’s are fully utilised as community support structure for possible interventions to challenges faced by families such as psychosocial support, linkages with government structures to provide necessary documentation for children such as birth certificates, Social Workers referrals and other related requirements to assist children in need.
The implementation of the Fund’s Sustainable Livelihoods Project within Goelama Programme has yielded positive results that are now showing among these communities. The Self Help Group model is proven to work and has been adapted by the Fund and its partners over the past seven years.
The Sustainable Livelihoods Project is a major thread across the three new strategic interventions of Child Survival and Development, Child Safety and Protection; and Youth Leadership.
SLP Objectives:
The objectives of the SLP under Child Survival and Development is to facilitate the establishment of the Health Self Help Groups (HSHG’s) to work with local clinics and health care workers on specific primary health care programmes. The other focus is on Children’s nutrition where identified communities are strengthened economically to deal with socio-economic challenges with the aim of improving the nutritional status of children.
Under the Child Safety and Protection ambit; the SLP will encourage Self Help Groups to work closely with schools in their locality to deal with the issues of safety and protection, particularly in reference to corporal punishment, sexual abuse and bullying.
Strengthening the Group members’ leadership skills is another valuable act that will empower them to lead and manage the programme effectively.
On Youth Leadership, the SLP’s approach to Youth Think Tanks will be treated as exclusively youth Self Help Groups with a Purpose (SHGWP). The SLP’s role will include strengthening the current Youth Self Help Groups to be active in the implementation and execution of the Fund’s new strategic youth leadership imperatives that focuses on Human Rights, Civic Participation; Youth Entrepreneurship and Ethical Leadership.
SLP OUTCOMES:
The envisaged project outcomes include among others, improved economic stability in the families, abused children receiving better care, counselling and support and reduced unemployment rate especially among the Youth.
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P.O. Box 797 Highlands North 2037
Email : info@nmcf.co.za
Tel: (+27) 11 274-5600
Fax (+27) 11 486-3914
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