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NARDEP turns around the low return on investment of the social fund, and impact poverty by introducing a few innovations that take community development practice to the next level:
- From a project by project approach where role players work in silos, targeting individuals or groups, to a system approach that networks role players through partnerships creating a system for integration and coordination of service delivery and sharing of knowledge. Although project by project work has played a very important role and has to be supported, when looked at in terms of overall impact on poverty, service delivery, and socio-economic up liftment of the community as whole, return on investment falls below expectation, and poverty is increasing
- Ensure holistic involvement of the community through healing, skilling and mobilising members of the community to leverage their collective power
- Introduce a missing link (in-reach – out-reach) that bridges the gap between social investment stakeholders and their beneficiary communities, opening the channels of communication and information flow, facilitating efficient planning and productive implementation of sustainable economic ventures, supervision, monitoring and evaluation of progress on an continuous basis
- Introduce principles, norms and standards of doing business such as shared policies, governance, quality assurance, accountability etc
- Committment to draw potential in-reach CDPs and Project managers to constitute National Business Education Community Organisation) a leadership social infra- structure support platform for the beneficiary community concerned to ensure self –reliance, sustainability and
- Commitment that the social funds and income generated is spent within the community, where it matters most.
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