| SAFWCO at Glance |
| 1. Social Mobilization Program |
Safwco believes in institutional building at grass roots level to support in bringing social change in the society. Hence a common platform that is created and owned by the poor is a pre-requisite through which the poor can make themselves count in the development process. It has made social mobilization as core activity and entry point followed by different development interventions including social and physical service delivery projects, coordinating and networking while emphasizing on gender balance and good governance. The main aim of the program is to mainstream rural poor into socio-economic development and reduce their vulnerability. The specific objectives are to:
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Enable democratic and participatory action resulting in institutionalizing social justice, as a basis of social and economic development;
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Make village organizations development oriented, sustainable and responsive to local needs and priorities; and
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Highlight social development issues gender, governance and globalization - and create forum for discussion and broad-based partnerships to evolve and develop around these issues.
Safwco has well defined methodology for social organization of communities comprising three phases. Safwco’s entry begins with the trust building and motivation of village activists for coming to gather on a collective platform of male community organizations. The organization identifies and prioritizes the problems, carries out a economic survey of the village and makes a plan of action and is assisted by Safwco in awareness raising and problems solving of the basic issues of education, health and sanitation. Women of the community are involved in organizational formation process separately and they establish their Village Development Organization (VDO) at village level.
Safwco role is essentially of animating and facilitating the target human beings in mobilizing themselves for participatory development. Performance of this role demands that on every step it must initiate and promote a dialogical communion with the target people. Safwco uses Participatory Community Development Dialogue (PCDD) as a tool for villagers to brain storm their local issues. The dialogue focuses on identification of village based development issues, development needs, and devise a mechanism for solution of those issues. The dialogue focuses on issues with a view to address them through the collective forum on self-help basis. The community is invited to participate in Kachehries (dialogues), organize mostly late at evening when the community members are free from their field work and business matters. During this exercise, folk wisdom is explored, identified problems are prioritized and mechanism for their solution is devised. The role of Safwco in these meetings is that of a facilitator. PCDDs are also convened on specific village social and development issues including analysis of political situation and local power structure, revision of democratic norms, economic and social injustice, literacy, health, poverty, and rights of freedom of expression, food security and infrastructure. The process is followed by capacity building program for institutional development of village organizations and skill development of individual entrepreneurs. |
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| Gender and Development |
| Safwco encourages men and women to participate in al its institutional and program activities. Hence a gender focused-approach has been adopted and women are taken as the primary target group. However entry into village development exercise is no possible without active involvement of men. The organization has started gender ladder activities on gender balancing and promoting active involvement of women for their leadership. |
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Natural Resources Management |
| In the Natural Resources Management (NRM) Safwco carries out activities related to forestry, land and livestock management, Participatory irrigation Management (PIM) and capacity building of forming community. |
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| Governance Globalization, Advocacy and Networking |
| The governance and human rights situation in the rural areas calls for consciousness raising and action, therefore Safwco has made three pronged objectives under this program are to: |
- Raise community awareness and consciousness about governance issues and enable participation
- Monitor human rights situation and support actions against violations
- Develop community capability to manage globalization change.
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Process of the Program |
Social Organization Program |
Till June 2010 |
Male Community Organizations |
2341 |
Female Community Organizations |
1204 |
Total COs |
3545 |
Male Membership |
40967 |
Female membership |
20764 |
Total |
61731 |
Village Development Organizations Male |
1005 |
Village Development Organizations Female |
403 |
Total VDOs |
1408 |
Male Membership |
37927 |
Female membership |
13201 |
Total |
51128 |
VDOs registered as CCBs |
53 |
VDOs registered as NGOs with CDD |
65 |
Area Development Councils/LSOs |
24 |
Youth Development Councils |
16 |
Watercourse Associations |
71 |
Water user groups |
20 |
Horticulture and Livestock groups |
179 |
Farmer Organizations/Farmer Groups |
225 |
Peasants and Workers Groups |
9 |
SMCs |
416 |
CPI Committees |
973 |
CNICs Formed |
56,754 |
Registration in voters’ List |
22,548 |
Capacity Building Packages |
5,357 |
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| Vision |
| Safwco envisions ‘sustainable communities achieving equitable economic, social, political and cultural development through grass roots development institutions. |
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| Mission |
| Safwco's mission is to mobilize the poor under a common platform and to support and to support them to carry out sustainable development |
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| Views & Openions |
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