SSDP - Shangrila Sustainable Development Program
Short Introduction:
Major activities:
- In SSDP we focus on Capacity bulding in form of a Micro credit Program in the village where the Outreach Program has been completed after 2 years. 1
- In these Program we are working with 2032 people in 327 househoulds, and empower them with participatory planning and action to solve their main problems in Education, Agriculture and Health by themselves.
- The access to micro credits in the new cooperatives enables them to solve this problems and to start own micro enterprises
- To make the project sustainable, we form at first groups (each household sends one member). These groups receive Awareness Trainings in Agriculture, Education, Marketing and Health. After this they receive trainings a.e. in Saving, Saving & Credit, Cooperative Management (for details please refer to the SSDP proposal). The whole training period takes more then 13 months.
- If the cooperative is founded after this basic trainings, every group member can get shares of the two new cooperatives. The cooperative gives loans by 33% as micro credits to the community, 33% for community projects in the area of Health, Agriculture and Education and 33% as solidarity loan to neighbour community. (Multiplication)
The new existing financial institutions enables the people now, to solve their problems in Agriculture, Health and Education by themselves.
The program is divided in two main parts:
1. Awareness & Training and
2. Capacity Building 2
1 the Outreach Program stays only 2 years in the same village and moves thereafter to Mughu.
2 In 1991, UNDP defined 'capacity building' as the creation of an enabling environment with appropriate policy and legal frameworks, institutional development, including community participation (of women in particular), human resources development and strengthening of managerial systems, adding that, UNDP recognizes that capacity building is a long-term, continuing process, in which all stakeholders participate (ministries, local authorities, non-governmental organizations and water user groups, professional associations, academics and others.
The WCO defines capacity building as "activities which strengthen the knowledge, abilities, skills and behaviour of individuals and improve institutional structures and processes such that the organization can efficiently meet its mission and goals in a sustainable way."