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Integrity- Do what it takes to attain participants satisfaction, to create sustainable relationships, do what we say, when we say it
Team Work- Work together with our participants as a team to successfully reach our combined goal, inclusivity and respect for human rights
Motto: Empowerment through ‘animation and accompaniment’
Institutional services cover both access to institutional services and capacity building more purpose driven, more focused on the attainment of objectives and exceptional excellence, through preferred option of integrated management service, coaching and mentoring and per details below -
DR Expertise covers and such experience include but not limited to programming project planning education, Child Protection, health- Sexual Reproductive Health/SGBVs, Gender Equality, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), HIV/AIDS, Disability Community Led monitoring & evaluation, Business management/Secure Livelihood, Promotions Environment and Climate Change Adaptations, Advocacy/Research, internal controls and project risk management and mitigation.
DR is a Specialised Organisation in Community Mobilisation and has been providing services in country for Access to Justice and Security Programme (ASJP/DFID Supports), International Fund for Agricultural Development- IFAD/Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security/National Coordination Unit for Decentralised Actions, Food Health and Agricultural Development Agency- FHADA/Handicap International, SALWACO/African Development Bank, Rural WASH Consortium collaboration.
In the field of Rural Water Supply and Sanitation, DR has a recognised experience in technical assistance/Training of Water Management Committees for District Youth Center Managements in Kono, Kailahun, Koinadugu and Kenema Districts, Sierra Leone
The Organisation, unwavering bespoke strategy and commitment, literally is to support both in the governance and non-governance sub-sectors in Gender, WASH, Livelihood Choices, while mainstreaming advocacy/research, to herald change. DR trust is to help local structures to become leaders and contractors of their choice to make informed decisions, stand by and with these leaders to realize the full potential of those decisions. DR is a Specialised Organisation in Community Mobilisation and has been providing services in country for Access to Justice and Security Programme (ASJP/DFID Supports), International Fund for Agricultural Development- IFAD/Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security/National Coordination Unit for Decentralized Actions, Food Health and Agricultural Development Agency- FHADA/Handicap International collaboration and UNICEF and in SALWACO/CME/RWSSP.
DR’s Expertise covers and such experience include but not limited to education, health, water, sanitation and hygiene, monitoring & evaluation, Business management/Secure Livelihood, Environment and Climate Change Adaptations, Advocacy/Research, internal controls and project risk management and mitigation.
In the field of Rural Water Supply and Sanitation, DR has a recognised experience in technical assistance/Training of Water Management Committees for District Youth Center Managements in Kono, Kailahun, Koinadugu and Kenema Districts, WASH Management Committees in Kono, Sierra Leone. Our experience covers more particularly the following areas:
DR aspires to be and remain a highly professional entity with a motive and commitment to being a worthy social responsible organisation, through Animation and accompaniment. DR believes in the attainment of the above by forging meaningful and sustainable relationships with state and non-state actors, the wider community together with its pool of experts. With DR there exists a pool of expertise in Animation and Accompaniment (including experiences in phases of animation personalization management reform agenda, and research into community empowerment) with standing experience across the 14 administrative districts and in-country resources Such experience and expertise have been accumulated over long years of working with leading organisations and development institutions like ASJP and IFAD, and their respective institution.
One of the major areas of socialization at DR is in project management. Personnel at DR have extensive experience working on various types and size of projects across the geographic domains in country and elsewhere. Such experience include but not limited to programming project planning , education, health, water, sanitation and hygiene, HIV/AIDS, Disability monitoring & evaluation, Business management/Secure Livelihood, and Advocacy/Research, internal controls and project risk management and mitigation.
A very crucial but often neglected project success criterion is community facilitation and empowerment DR’s community facilitation and empowerment approaches are second to none. At DR, we have mastered the principles of social engineering with tired and tested approaches to participatory poverty assessment (PPAs). Our community engagement facilitation and empowerment tools and techniques (Animation and accompaniment) secure effective community ownership of projects right at the inception stage, assured by our recognition for and approach to robust ex-ante evaluation.
DR views Stakeholders immeasurable role in Sierra Leone’s development agenda as incredible and unquantifiable. There every need to expand beyond the scope of single individual actor to unlock the potentials, create the synergies for mutualisation in development. In this case partners to embrace others to respond to Ebola emergency situations, through community mobilisation to:
Facilitate the Emergence of Community Care Centers, to serve as holding centers for survivors of Ebola, -psycho-social counseling to engender confidence building for reintegration: Ebola Survivors have many stories to tell. Their account of resilience can inspire confidence in others to seek early treatment and models reintegration.
Post Ebola Response Strategy: Dignity after Ebola for affected families and communities, psycho-social counseling in schools and wider communities for social reintegration and education for all.
DR through supports from Access to Justice and Security Programme- ASJP to Civil Society Organisations Network, currently advocating for the Registration of Customary Marriages and Divorces Act and Monitoring the Adherence to Government Emergency Regulations and Local Bye-Laws in Western Rural District
DR sense of purpose acclaim within professional circles for its reservoir of knowledge and experience in the crucial field of monitoring and evaluation. The core skills base of DR rest on successful generation of M&E Plan to assess and evaluate projects or accomplishments objectively and adapt to suit real context of the monitoring and evaluation efforts of donor fund, reconstruction and rehabilitation the drivers for change, with M &E experience in practically most development section and collaboration experience arguably with ministries departments and agencies (MDAs) of government and NGOs. Such expert skills and experiences range from ex-ante evaluations, project appraisals, routine monitoring of the physical status implementation of projects to ex-post evaluations for scalability- the benefits of working together with key stakeholders for the attainment of the common good for the community in particular and the wider society in general.
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