A brief narrative of the proposed project design on resource mobilisation for community based developmental projects.

1. COMMUNITY BASED RESOURCE MOBILIZATION INITIATIVE.
BACKGROUND:
Every individual in the society started life in a particular place or environment –
the cradle of life. These include the family, school or workplace environment
where biological, educational or professional life started. The love and affection
of most people often remain connected to their origin in the journey of life –
regardless of where they live. General observations revealed that while many
desire to see their home base develop and would be willing to make their own
little contributions to such developmental efforts, the dearth of credible,
transparent and reliable resource mobilization and flow channel for conveying
such pooled resources for specific cradle-based projects that addresses the felt
needs of the people.
METHODOLGY:
The proposed approach to achieving this will include:
1. Registering a Non-Governmental (Civil Society) organization
2. Engage with target community groups to identify their needs --either
through conduct of community need assessment and gap analysis or
accessing existing data on this where available.
3. Facilitate community prioritization of needs and development of costed
action plan to address the prioritized needs.
4. Work with community to generate community data base (home and
diaspora) for resource mobilization for the costed projects.
5. Approach Philanthropists, private and international donors for counterpart
supports to motivate community members (home and diaspora) for
resource mobilization for the costed interventions.
6. Fund sourced from donors and philantropists shall be deployed to unlock
and crowd in additional resources from both community members and
other private financiers/donors in a catalytic way for execution of
community development projects.
7. Designated community representatives shall be fully involved in the
process of mobilizing and management of resources for their community
in a very transparent and accountable way.
The NGO shall leverage services of volunteer technocrats willing to provide their
support in kind (technical advice, supervision, monitoring, evaluation, etc),
working with the community.
SCOPE OF PROJECTS:
Simple but impactful projects shall be given attention. Such interventions which
may not be highly capital intensive but quite impactful include such as provision
of potable water points, renovation and equipment of primary health facilities,
renovation of blocks of classrooms, provision of computer wares for school,
construction or renovation of bridges connecting communities with farm lands
or external markets, etc.
EVALUATION AND REPORTS:

2. Adequate feedback mechanism shall be put in place to ensure proper
communication and update among stakeholders.
Services of recognized independent evaluators and audit firms shall also be
engaged for periodic evaluation and audit of the NGO.