Cultivate community engagement and ownership. STRATEGY ACTION

Work with and cultivate imaginative community leaders (existing and new leadership).

› Invest in building the capacity of local development organisations.

› Invest in the leadership capacity of councillors, advisory committees, young adults and adolescents.

› Empower and engage advisory committees.

› Support our programmes to develop local management and strategic capacity to drive their work.

› Enable communities to be active participants in their local development processes.

Cultivate community engagement and ownership.

› Develop and implement a communications strategy.

› Where possible, transition strategic management of programmes to local organisations.

› Work with community members as co-creators of strategies and implementers of the work.

› Develop a dashboard or citizen accountability tool to make visible the reach and impact of our work.

› Invest in ways that create a growing group of community champions who enable the embedding and sustainability of strategically aligned outcomes.

Initiate interventions of compassion and care.

› Make available a percentage of funds annually for donations, emergency relief and other efforts of compassion and care.

Outcome

› At least 10 local development organisations are effectively driving change in their respective areas of work.

› At least 50 people are reached through a leadership development programme and effectively engaged in various developments.

› Functional advisory committees provide input on strategy and programmes, and champion the work of the community Trusts.

› Clear management skills development plans are implemented for more than 50% of our programmes.

› There is improved public participation in Integrated Development Planning (IDP) and local planning processes.

› Community members understand, value and believe in the work done by the Trusts.

› There are clear organisational transition plans wherever possible.

› Documented evidence of community involvement in all new initiatives is presented.

› Community members have up-to-date and easy access to information on the work of the Trusts.

› At least five local stakeholders are working in municipality or government championing our work.

› Community members experience the community Trusts as caring and there for them.