FDC - Fundação para o Desenvolvimento da Comunidade

Strategic Direction 1

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 “Strengthen the ability of communities to lead their own development process”

Objective 1.1

Objective 1.1: Strengthen the ability of communities to lead their own development process 
Result: At the end of five years community leaders know their roles and act with a sense of accountability towards their constituents.
Indicators: Actions:
1. % of leaders who know the needs, potential and priorities of their communities and their role;

• Build the capacity of community leaders and guarantee access to essential information for improving their work;

• Build the community's ability to develop mechanisms that make their leaders accountabl;

• Promote and support mechanisms for exchanging and spreading information and knowledge within a community and between communitie;
2. % of leaders who do local planning and take their concerns to planning processes at other levels;
3. % of communities with mechanisms for control, accountability and information.

Objective 1.2

Objective 1.2: To build the capacity of community members to exercise all the duties and rights of their citizenship
Result : At the end of five years community members and public institutions know and exercise their rights and fulfil their duties as citizen.
Indicatorts: Results:
1. % of community members know their rights and duties;

• Promote and disseminate the rights and duties of citizens;

• Mobilize, raise awareness and get community members to assume responsibility for exercising their rights and fulfilling their duties;

• Advocate among public institutions and decision makers on guarantees for the exercise of citizenship;
2. % of citizens and % of institutions indicating they have taken concrete action on the rights of children, women, the elderly and the disabled;
3. 1.% of OVCs with access to education, health and birth registration services;
4. 1.% of community members who think they should play a role in deciding on their development process.

Objective 1.3

Objective 1.3: To influence and contribute to the implementation of effective community development policies, programmes and mechanisms
Results 1: Existence of effective enforcement instruments and mechanisms that promote community development;
Results 2: Improved access to and quality of basic social services in communities;
Results 3: Effective use of the spaces already gained for advocacy and influence;
Indicators: Actions:
1. Number of approved policies influenced by FDC;

• Influence the design and implementation of public policies and programs that respond to community interests;

• Strengthen the capacity of civil society organizations to produce well-founded positions and engage in well-founded advocacy such that their points of view are included in different national, regional and international instruments;

• Influence and advocate among regional and international bodies with an impact on Mozambique’s community development process;

• Encourage local and national mechanisms for monitoring community development programs.

• Promote the implementation of programs for access to basic services.

• Promote preventive actions and responds to HIV/AIDS, malaria, cholera and other endemic diseases.
2. % of women who give birth in a health unit.
3. reduction in under-five children with diseases caused by water quality
4. % of youth who say they consistently use the main methods for preventing HIV
5. % of people living with HIV and AIDS with home care in places where FDC is working
6. % children and pregnant women who consistently sleep under a mosquito net
7. % children completing EP1 who know how to read and write.
8. % of girls with scholarships who successfully complete their course.

Objective 1.4

Objective 1.4: To strengthen civil society in order to guarantee the interests and representativity of communities in their development process
Results: Better quality and more relevant civil society interventions in community development processes.
Indicators: Actions:
1. Diversity/representativity of various interest groups in CCIs;

• Promote civil society movements and strengthen civil society networks so they can be agents in the community development process - implementing community activities, promoting thematic networks and advocacy, participating in decision-making processes;

• Strengthen CSOs so they can diversify their sources of resources to sustain their activities (corporate social responsibility, the state budget etc.);
2. Annual number of FDC-supported consolidated CSO reports/documents on specific topics of national interest;
3. Amount of funds channelled by FDC to CSOs;
4. Number of FDC CSO partners with budgets funded by a variety of sources (e.g. donor proportion less than 30%).

Objective 1.5

Objective 1.5: Develop local knowledge by spreading scientific and technical knowledge to give people the skills to produce wealth, transforming resources for their own benefit and that of their families and community.
Results: Families responding to their basic needs.
Indicators: Actions:
1. 1.% increase in the per capita income of beneficiary families;

• Develop and promote the family sector as an agent for generating wealth in the community;

• Establish multi-functional spaces for sharing knowledge and skills at community level;

• Establish public-private-community partnerships that promote access to the market and investments for the family sector;

• Establish community funds for developing community partnerships;

• Dynamise and promote the establishment of farmer associations, helping them to gain access and management capacity for the local development fund;
2. % of families with food reserves for the whole year;
3. % of assisted communities who adopt at least one new production technology;
4. % of families who eat food with aggregate nutritional value.
5. % children eating at least two nutritious meals a day
6. Number and quality of public-private-community partnerships promoting access to the market and investment;
7. % of communities with programmes that develop life skills.
8. Number of self-employment initiatives created by youth.
 

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