What We Do
The basket concept is a simplification of the complex development model in a way that enables communities to comprehensively understand, own, direct and control the change process. The concept groups the delivery of social, political and economic needs of communities into bundles of goods packaged and delivered in 4 baskets with the 5th basket addressing the delivery capacity of the institutions coordinating the delivery and consumption of those goods.
Basket 1: Good Governance and Community Awakening
Bundle of Goods
a. Training ambassadors (youth and elders) to administer a unique community to community by community civic education programme. These will be leaders who will be able to influence others and act as accountability checks from the grassroots to the national level. Each of the 47 counties will have a team of ambassadors leading the change process. The ambassadors will be working through Communities of Chane (CoCs) which will be forums for learning, mentoring and knowledge exchange and implementation of innovative and low cost projects.
b. Creating/nurturing alternative leadership/talent
c. Village University
d. The handbook
e. Lobbying and advocacy
Basket 2: National Healing and Reconciliation
Bundle of Goods
a) Inter community exchange programmes
b) Multi-ethnic community
c) Use of music, drama and sports to build peace and accelerate the healing process
Basket 3: Livelihoods Sustenance and Youth Employment
Bundle of Goods
a) Graduate training programme
b) Community owned savings and credit
c) Food security from increased land productivity through use of better farming methods
d) Natural resource and environmental management
o Rain water harvesting
o Tree planting and carbon credits trading
o Use of technologies that preserve forests
o Low cost environment friendly housing project
e) Business development
Basket 4: Synergy and Partnerships
Bundle of Goods
a) Inter community level support, learning and peer review mechanisms
b) Inter agency level support, learning and peer review mechanisms
Basket 5: Capacity to Deliver Goods to Community
Bundle of Goods
a) Organizational capacity development for FOK and the ArK. ArK is FOK’s technical partner for village banking.
b) Promotion FOK’s development model
c) Resource Mobilisation
d) Establishment of a village banking training school to support existing banks and replication
