Themes

Food Security, Nutrition, and Health

Participatory, interdisciplinary team approaches are used in identifying underlying causes and possible interventions that are affordable, sustainable and culturally acceptable

Agriculture, Post-Harvest Storage, Value-added Processing and Marketing

Community driven initiatives focused on diversifying farmers' household livelihood activities through identifying locally appropriate practices that are simple, affordable, safe and renewable

Small-Scale Livestock Rearing

Complementary livelihood activity with components of access to extension services, market information, and infrastructure according to specific needs in the community

Fisheries

Developing fishers' organization capacity and introducing methods that facilitate effective participation in decisions regarding the sector, livelihood and work conditions

Natural Resource Management

Government-community-private sector collaboration and joint management of natural resources will be emphasized in order to improve equity of access to resources.

Small Business Development, Entrepreneurship and Mentoring

Supporting locally initiated enterprises, inter-community exchanges and integrated mentoring for groups with specific business needs that go beyond credit

Savings, Credit and Micro Finance

Approach that targets disadvantaged groups through group mobilization and training for microfinance management, and mobilization of start-up capital

Information and Communication Technologies

Information and communications technology (ICT) awareness building; attracting new entrants in rural investments; fostering microfinance in creating locally owned and operated rural ICT businesses

Local Capacity Strengthening and Human Resource Development

Networking, support, training, and monitoring organization formation and management; equipment acquisition and maintenance and support for community information and resource centers.

Community Managed Facilities

Human resource development and community capacity strengthening both local communities and partner organizations