Community Development
For Enterprise, Skills & Community Development
- Community engagement
- Community ownership and uptake of the project concept is a critical success factor.
- Impact-driven interventions
- Project intervention and identification must be:
- Economically viable
- Inclusive
- Transparent
- Value driven
- Programs approved on merit
- Best returns on investment
- Sustainable jobs
- Income security
- Practical Skills Development
- Hands on
- Qualifications Driven
- Education interventions
- Enterprise development
- Approach to empowerment
- Interventions
- Streamlined
- Avoid being everything to everyone
- Managed expectations at project inception to avoid a crisis of expectations in the future
Areas of focus
- Reference to the South African Government adopted New Growth Path (NGP) strategy activated in 2010 as the driver of the country’s job creation strategy.
- The strategic focus of the New Growth Path is to support employment creation.
Chamber methodology
- Our approach is centred in research and development to verify and validate assumptions. We look for opportunities in local and international economic ecosystems and find ways to create large scale ‘localised’ social economic ecosystems.
- Creating subsidiary social enterprise initiatives that create jobs and support new existing business in supply chain, access to markets and product micro-manufacturing/farming/mining.
Operational Framework
Identifying key challenges in Community
- Unemployment
- Skills & Capacity vacuums
- Create & Strengthen corporate governance practices
- Prevent intra-membership conflicts
- Avoid Culture of entitlement
- Encourage entrepreneurial drive and self-reliance
- Partnerships in sustainability and profit-making models
- Enhance business skills profiles
ULTIMATE OBJECTIVE OF THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN IS
To alleviate poverty within the township and rural areas by ensuring that the rural development drivers are optimally effected to the advantage of the poor this can be achieved through the execution of the strategic approach:
First Strategic Focus Area: Food Security
Second Strategic Focus Area: Agriculture and mining Development
Third Strategic Focus Area: Sustainable Livelihoods through infrastructure development
Objectives
The social enterprise start-up through the penetration and creation of “new target markets“ in various industries.
- Consistent, high-quality care and service.
- Credibility, integrity and 100% dedication to upholding high levels of customer service.
- Position ourselves as Community Skills Hub and Organic Food
- Implement a solid marketing strategy and programme that will aim at its foundation to educate and attract the target market segments.
- Secure adequate funding to implement the foundation’s start-up plan.
STRATEGIC PRIORITIES:
Primary Launch Projects:
Mining Rehabilitation value chain.
Micro-Manufacturing value chain.
Commercial Property value chain. Mobile Network Technology Infrastructure value chain.
Green economy – Environment and Rehabilitation programme
Secondary Launch Projects:
Agri-processing value chain. manufacturing value chain. Tourism value chain. Health value chain. Arts, Culture and Heritage value chain.
