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Programme
goal
 IIRR
Africa’s goal is to enable people and their organizations to achieve
positive and sustained impact on poverty reduction in Africa.
Objective
IIRR-Africa’s
objective is to build the capacity of individuals, communities,
and their organizations to demonstrate and contribute towards
sustained impact on poverty reduction through various capacity
building and learning interventions.
Program Strategy
The international Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) Africa
has chosen to address poverty in the region through the Capacity
Building approach. IIRR- Africa believes that capacity building
that includes systematic learning, documenting and sharing information
and knowledge for scaling up and replication, can contribute to
poverty reduction.
To
achieve its goal, IIRR-Africa capacity building programme operates
on three sub-programmes.
Learning Community Centres
The
Learning Community Centres (LCCs) are developed in the countries
where IIRR-Africa operates, so as to:
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Learn what needs to be done and implemented to effectively have
an impact on poverty reduction. In this context IIRR works and
learns together with organizations and community members affected
by poverty and ensures that they participate fully in the entire
process so that efforts can be sustained.
- Actively
monitors, evaluates, learns, documents and shares lessons learned
with communities and partner organizations through action research,
case studies, publications, study tours, trainings, workshops
and conferences.
The Strategic Community Capacity Builders
IIRR-Africa
strengthens the abilities of other Strategic Community Capacity
Builders in the region by:
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Introducing various capacity building and organizational development
interventions, tools, approaches and systems.
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Sharing lessons leaned in the LCCs through trainings and study
missions.
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Replicating successful community and organizational development
experiences of LCCs.
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Monitoring and evaluating the effects/impacts of these efforts
on poverty reduction at the community level with regards to
the organization’s programs/projects.
Strategic
Community Capacity Builders
This
aims at providing “demand- led” capacity building support services
to a wider client base and other strategic partners to contribute
to their development process as well as to generate resources
to ensure the financial sustainability of IIRR. The institute
organizes:
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Tailor-made and customized training and technical services specific
to individual organizations;
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National and regional trainings and workshops based on commonly
identified needs and demands;
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Study tours and learning missions to LCCs and communities of
our strategic capacity building partners for learning, adaptation,
replication and scaling up;
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Documentation and publication of cross cutting and thematic
subjects as well as innovative practices of development communities
and practitioners for knowledge sharing and generating of income
through sale of publications.
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