CommunityWorx - Thriving communities, today, tomorrow and beyond.
Communities want to and can embark on a sustainable growth path. But how do we ensure they stay on this path?
First is good governance (by this we mean the rule of law, people-centred policies and the ability of the governed to express themselves).
Second is ensuring local ownership, inclusion, continuity and incremental growth.
Underpinning community interventions must be the understanding that people cannot be developed. They develop themselves. External agents can only facilitate the development process.
What we do....
Support local initiative
Commun
ityWorx is our vehicle to provide community based organisations (CBOs) with technical support to strengthen local initiatives. We focus on complementing community effort and mobilising support for local initiatives.
Connect local initiatives to global partners and supporters
We are connecting local community-based organisations to the support world through the internet and creating opportunities for concerned global citizens to support local initiatives.
We have developed a model that utilises our expertise to benefit organisations that would otherwise not be able to benefit from the connectivity offered by modern information and communication technologies. We intend to link 60 local organisations to the global community and allow members of the global community to sponsor local initiative and be in touch with local communities.
Our intermediary function is to provide CBOs with the link and to ensure that they perform to expected standards. We are in effect a fund manager for donors who channel support to featured CBOs through us. We ensure timely, accurate and informative updates and reports.
Local Products Market Development
We promote local development by providing market research and linkages for local producers. Realising that market information alone is not enough, we offer, for the local producer unable to use the information, a marketing brand that is a partnership between private investors and community-based organisations. Purchasers of products sold under the brand contribute to addressing social problems in communities that co-own the brand.
Our model delivers te benefits of marketing collectives market information systems development without the challenges associated with such approaches.
Environmental Preservation and Regeneration
We are developing a new programme to promote the uptake of existing technologies to slow down and reverse environmental degradation. This initiative will see us initiate private-community partnerships to benefit from the relative strengths of the partners to address environmental degradation concerns.