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Self-help Organisation Capacity Building

A three stage model

Graham Boyd (June 2004)
Caledonia Centre for Social Development

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A people-centred and cooperative enterprise process seeks to support self-help organisations (SHOs) move through 3 distinct stages - from ad hoc random actions to internal action and onwards to self-reliant development actions. This transformation takes place at the village and neighbourhood levels.

The key to success is packages of integrated support on: social preparation (education and planning); organisational development, and institutional development. This should be focussed on

  • gathering and analysing information,
  • negotiating and agreeing the priority actions,
  • establishing an organisational mechanism to drive the actions forward and mobilising internal resources, and
  • reflecting on progress and broadening and deepening the actions through linking to external resources

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