THE MIXED BAG

The PROFILE Consultative Forum is scheduled to meet on the 16th of February 2012 followed by a Directors’ Forum on the 17th.

THE WORDY FEATURES

A  - Excerpt from ‘It Starts Within Us’ - A story of change from Chikukwa Ecological Land Use Community Trust

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CELUCT: CHIKUKWA ECOLOGICAL LAND USE COMMUNITY TRUST

A “vision for change” attracted the people of Chikukwa communal area in Chimanimani District to participate in the permaculture movement as early as 1991.  In this high rainfall area, water was still a problem, because the mountainous, over-grazed and deforested land caused high run-off, erosion and flooding which left the communities impoverished.  In the spirit of “Perma”, they began reclaiming their land and repairing the gullies by planting grass and trees, re-establishing effective water catchments.  After successfully developing productive activities such as orchards, agro-forestry, bee-keeping, and even fish-farming, the community formed their own organization known as CELUCT.

AFRODAD: AFRICAN FORUM AND NETWORK ON DEBT AND DEVELOPMENT

AFRODAD (African Forum and Network on Debt and Development) is a civil society organisation that was founded in 1994 and was registered as a trust in Zimbabwe in 1996. The organisation was born out of a desire to secure lasting solutions to Africa's mounting debt problem, which has impacted negatively on the continent's development process.

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ZIMBABWE CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE

Zimbabwe Christian Alliance  is a community faith based network of Christians involved in peace building and advocacy initiatives. The organisation was launched in 2005 and comprised of already existing Christian networks involved in social transformation initiatives. ZCA has established hub structures in ten provinces that have a reach into 65 districts throughout the country. The organisation exists to bring social transformation in Zimbabwe through peace building and transformative advocacy work.

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WHAT’S NEW IN PROFILE? The Disability Initiative and the Community of Practice on documentation and knowledge sharing.

The Profile initiative towards integration of disability will support partner organizations in their efforts towards integration of disability, under the facilitation of knowledgeable and experienced resource persons. Seven organizations have expressed interest and an inception workshop to elaborate the concrete design of the process was held on the 24th of November 2011. Initial assessments to enlighten organizations’ needs in relation to disability mainstreaming are planned starting early February. This will inform the process of developing mainstreaming plans and the launch meeting for the initiative is planned for end of February.

LIVING THE TALK OF MEANINGFUL INVOLVEMENT: The third Profile community workshop

PROFILE once again brought together community representatives from the participating organizations from the 21 st to 22nd of November 2011 in Kadoma. The workshop was attended by 43 participants and this included community representatives and project officers. It was yet another opportunity for Profile to engage with the communities and it was encouraging to see how community members are already so familiar with some Profile initiatives and were able to give useful feedback. The Makadii project and the people centred development focus of Profile for example received a lot of positive reactions from the communities. Indeed one could sense that Profile is not far from the communities at all!

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INTEGRATING CONFLICT SENSITIVITY IN DEVELOPMENT: Insights from a Profile workshop

In September 2011, 18 PO representatives went through a workshop on integrating conflict sensitivity in development. It was an interesting three days with very practical discussions, exercises and sharing of experiences on how organizations can be more conflict sensitive both at orgnisational (internal) level and in their work with communities. A striking learning point was on how a lot of conflict is hidden in the structures and cultural aspects that we consider normal. The facilitators shared some useful insights on conflict sensitivity in relation to our organisations

ORGANISATIONAL SPECIFIC SUPPORT FOR PROFILE ORGANISATIONS – Insights from the TSURO workshop on ‘Leaders against vulnerability’

The end of 2011 saw a number of organizations applying for specific capacity building support related to their capacity strengthening plans. The capacity strengthening plans have come out of the Profile capacity assessments held at the beginning of Phase II. It is inspiring that organizations are taking the initiative to reflect on and prioritise their capacity development needs internally. We share insights and lessons from TSURO who held a workshop with leaders in Chimanimani district on the inclusion of vulnerable community members in development. The workshop is one of Tsuro initiatives to strengthen its people centred development practices, i.e ensuring that vulnerable people are not discriminated against in community programme activities

Finance Refresher Workshop

PROFILE provided an opportunity for finance staff of EED funded POs to meet on 16th September 2011 in Harare for a Finance Refresher Workshop.  The workshop sought to address the revised EED reporting requirements, contractual terms of agreement with EED POs in Zimbabwe and to assess the contextual developments in the organizations, locally, regionally and internationally.  Thereafter, there were discussions on actions required to tackle diminishing funding for local NGOs and competition from the International NGOs and the following strategies were highlighted:

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