Programme Four: Community Development

Programme Four: Community Development

 

Project One: National Networking for Community Development

Project Objectives:

1. Ensure coordination and coherence in approaches to community development by all partner agencies by the end of 2007.

Major Strategies:

1. Role pattern analysis to identify strengths and gaps of duty bearers and stakeholders.
2. Technical support and capacity building of partners as per capacity gap analysis.
3. Advocacy with key partners and decision-makers for the development of a common national approach for community development.
4. Sharing experience, co-ordination with partners at the national level to harmonize views in development.
5. Programme linkages and convergence of all programme interventions at community level.

Major Activities:

1. Support workshops and meetings for decision-makers from different ministries, governorates, and partners to develop and update criteria for selection of needy governorates and communities.
2. Support meetings between national NGOs, UN agencies, concerned ministries and institutions to sustain a network on community-based development.
3. Support meetings, workshops, and produce information and communication material on concepts, obstacles, lessons learned, and recommendations on community development.
4. Support meetings and workshops to review and harmonize development concepts and develop a Jordanian common approach to community development.
5. Support meetings for policy dialogue with decision-makers to develop a national community development policy.
6. Produce quarterly newsletter to share experiences, concept and to mobilize decision-makers on community development issues.

Major Partners:

• Ministry of Planning
• National NGOs and community-based organisations
• United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• World Health Organisation (WHO)
• World Food Programme (WFP)
• United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Indicators for verification of achievement:

• Agreed upon minimum criteria by all partner agencies for a community-based development methodology is endorsed by all partners. (Minimum criteria will have to cover community assessment, mobilisation, community participation mechanisms, involvement/role of relevant administrative levels, required/ potential partner agencies, etc).