Our Community Empowerment programs help communities take active roles in planning and running activities based on their needs and opportunities. We train and mentor local volunteers involved in all focus domains. This approach strengthens the community and supports a sustainable empowerment cycle, creating a wider and lasting impact in urban poor areas
World Bank (2023) reports 56% over half of the poor live in urban areas, often with low education, informal low-wage jobs, and poor housing. These communities face complex, connected social challenges. A key solution is increasing community participation (World Bank, 2012). Our focus area, Krendang, has a density of 75,000 people/km, and residents highlight challenges in bringing up children and teenagers safely, access to higher education, and providing for their families (YB3 survey in 2020)
Our solution is comprehensive community planning, a community empowerment model where people are actively involved from planning to implementation, based on their real needs. In our home visit program, families of a child with a disability, healthy families local champions and teenager local champions receive mentoring, education, and training to identify their strengths and challenges, co-create solutions, and work toward a better, more empowered and self-reliant life.
We set yearly targets with mid-term outcomes and long-term impact. Our main goal is to empower individuals, families, and communities. Each program follows a theory of change with three stages of empowerment and growing community ownership. We use a clear empowerment framework to track progress. We also train local volunteers as facilitators and involve them in monitoring, aiming for long-term community adoption of our programs.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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