8. Fundamental Considerations
in Senegal are wary of major landholding practices and national land laws were introduced to protect farmers from larger bodies. However this has come with some issues, as often local communities have rejected these new laws because they conflict with customary practices. To generate and effective project solution, the contention between local practices and national laws would need to be navigated. Part of the reason there has been policy failures in these areas is because they were generated without imput from all parties concerned, as such the Kiara Looro project should take the opposite approach and ensure that all stakeholder parties are engaged effectively and feel heared and empowered. (Faye, 2008)
NGO's. The participation of NGO’s in community development aims to reduce suffering, promote the interest of the poor, protect the environment, provide basic social services or undertake community development. They work to make the communities to be self-dependent. (Bashir, 2019). Balouo Salo, as the orginser of the Women's House competition, are the primary NGO involved with the project. Balouo Salo will be actively participating and supervising in each the project. The UN women will be helping in attracting volunteers for this project while providing a reasonable amount of funds to this project. The African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) and Women's Global Education Project will also be financing the development of this project. More importantly, during the occupancy period, these two organisations will be continuously arranging educational workshops in helping women in the community. The ACTED provides food assistance by training the women on household production capacities and market gardening activities Further information and the role of stakeholders at each stage will be presented in the table below. The red colour indicates the most essential role of the stakeholder whilst the blue colour indicates other involvement required by the relevant stakeholder:
