At SWAF. we believe in partnering with local colleges, universities, and other centers for higher learning. This ensures interest from a younger generation of the community, opportunities for internships, direct involvement in our project, sharing of our project with families and other students, learning of our business model, continued job creation, further growth, expansion etc.

I believe in order for something to be sustained over a long period of time, future generations must be involved and a part of a process at a young age. It not only gets them involved, but lets them grow and be a part of something successful which is an invaluable experience.

It would be nice if NGOs were formed to further the development goals of people with fewer resources, i.e., provide a real service to its clients, but unfortunately that’s not how they think the economy works. On the other hand, I should think there are plenty of examples of this kind of client-oriented aid working much better than NGO-oriented projects… I know I’ve seen a few myself!

“Some of the larger international NGOs working out of a rights-based approach have begun to recognise the importance of supporting local organisations and social movements as effective rights-holders. But despite the speak of “rights” we continue to witness local organisations or “partners” being assessed, even self-assessed, against templates, checklists and models of a “best practice” organisation developed in the North and having their capacity built accordingly”.

Scehduled Tribes’ and ‘Backward Castes’ were not created to help British Empire permanantly secure India’s division. It was to liberate the people in chains becauseof the Caste system. Your ‘Varna Ashrama Dharma’perpetuates slavery, injustice, inhumanity and ineaquality in the human society. That needs to be sudied deeply impartially and without any caste/religious bias.

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J.J.Lima

At SWAF Africa, we believe that NGOs should focus on using local resources (local labor and material) in development projects: this will ensure sustainability in projects, recipients direct involvement in projects, greater sense of responsibility for communities, job creation and potentially entrepreneurship growth.

For decades, NGOs have used western solutions for third-world country problems…it may be time to use third-world approach to solve third-world problems. Often, the poor populations have insights, ideas and practical knowledge of their environment so their involvement in project implementation can only ensure its success.
SWAF Africa implements this strategy in its operations, the recipients are involved in every step of the Action Plan and the management of the operations.

Transparency has also been an issue in the Aid sector, organizations involved in development projects should have a transparent budget that donors could view…this would help avoid bad management of funds.

In the aid world today, there are still many expenses not directly related with actual development work: excessive bureaucracy, administration, conferences, advertising, marketing, media, outsourced labor & expertise…

Transparency in fund management and justifiable use of funds is a very important aspect better NGO governance.
This is the approach we use in the design of our social venture. Currently in a start-up stage, we are actively looking for businesses and organizations looking to partner in water and sanitation projects in developing nations.

El Hadji Beye
SWAF Africa
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