development

Many organisations are guided by welfare approach while providing their services. During the session: 'when is it welfare and when is it development'; it was interesting that there were arguments that organisations need to move from welfare approach towards development approach. However, we learnt a lesson that there is nothing wrong with welfare approach. 

Every year, GreaterGood South Africa organises and hosts Do It Day, a call-to-action event that connects people with good causes around the country. Do It Day is all about building a culture of volunteering in South Africa and exemplifies the unifying power volunteering has to change lives.

Community Based Worker Systems: Guidelines for Practitioners aims to assist practitioners and implementing partners to run community-based worker (CBW) systems more effectively, to maximise impacts for clients of the service, and to empower communities, the CBWs themselves, and to assist governments to ensure that services are provided at scale to enhance livelihoods. The guidelines focus on how to run the CBW system rather than technicalities around HIV/AIDS or natural resources issues. The guidelines are generic and draw primarily from work in South Africa, Uganda, Kenya and Lesotho.

This report is based on close consultation with the citizens, civil society and governments of  Commonwealth countries and pays attention to the neglected ingredient of culture. The report highlights what the connections between culture and development look like in closer detail, over and above the simple assertion that they exist. This publication takes as its starting point the notion that culture is a fundamental component of sustainable development, and asks readers to consider the implications of this approach.