Empower a Girl: For Self-Reliance

Engaging Community in decision making

Kole Intellectual Forum (KIFA) has learnt that: evaluation of their projects by members of the community they serve, can make them to assess the effectiveness of their pieces of work or their developed programs.

Through this process to, the team of the organization has be able to highlight whether their projects are moving steadily and successfully towards the set goals or differently towards different directions.

Furthermore, evaluation with the community is also keeping the participants to refocus away from unproductive or unnecessary work.

Above all, this approach has also help the organization to, learn from their experiences; record what they have learnt, and share it with other stakeholders; check on their progresses; as well as checking  whether they are doing well with the community or not; they have strength or not; learnt of their weaknesses and search for opportunities.

As of now, the organization is very clear of what to do, when do them, how to do them and with which people as a result of evaluating their projects with the community

Hybrid ways of lives under control

Promoting traditional and modern ways of lives that Kole Intellectual Forum Institute of Home Economics is training is dealt with according to the Arctic Indigenous peoples and communities, they believe that: tradition has a long history of self-reliance and self-sufficiency, sustained through generations of traditional economies and cultural practices.

To them, they noted that: For many, living according to traditional ways of life creates a sense of cultural identity, fosters a close connection to nature and provides them with increased control over their own destiny. Sustaining their traditional ways of life, through the transfer of traditional practices, ensures that their values persist and that important social and cultural links are maintained.

As a result of factors such as globalization and climate change, the Arctic has been undergoing transformative changes on many levels, including social, cultural, environmental and economic. These changes present both challenges and opportunities to traditional ways of life in Arctic indigenous communities. And while globalization and modernization have undeniably affected the Arctic, it is important to acknowledge that traditional and modern ways of life can co-exist in ways that benefit Arctic peoples and communities. In this time of rapid change, Arctic indigenous peoples continue to demonstrate resilience and an ability to adapt. They are finding innovative ways to help ensure that traditional ways of life remain a sustainable choice. 

With the positive impacts realized from the innovations of using wo different ways of lives - traditional ones and modern ones; Kole Intellectual Forum has come in vibrantly to promote the two ways of lives; that is, the traditional ones and the modern ways of lives