Strengthening Organizational Capacity to Enhance Community Food Security
CRS Partnership with Caritas Développment Niger
Maryce Ramsey, Linda Gamova, and Carrie Miller
In Niger, CRS is engaging in a partnership process with Caritas Développement Niger (CADEV) that illustrates important principles of CRS partnership. CRS believes that investing in the partnership, and basing that partnership on mutual trust and accountability, will result in a stronger CADEV better able to assist communities to solve their own issues. In 2005-2006, CRS supported CADEV’s organizational strengthening efforts: developing an organizational improvement plan and increasing the capacity of field agents, volunteers, community members. Both the partnership between CRS and CADEV-Niger and the capacity strengthening efforts continued after the initial project, as a demonstration of CRS’s dedication to partnership and CADEV-Niger’s commitment to local ownership and sustainability.
2008
Partnership Case Studies
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- Strategies for Sustainable Coffee
Coffee production is important to both the economies and ecologies of the regions in which it is produced. This poster looks at how CRS is providing support for coffee-based livelihoods to
Increasing Smallholder Access to Finance
This poster looks at how increasing smallholder access to finance through saving and lending can lead to increased investment in agriculture.
Increasing Market Access for Smallhold…
CRS is helping farmers in the Phillipines organize into product clusters to supply quality produce at the right price and time. Download this poster to learn more about this approach.
A Holistic Livelihoods-based Approach …
CRS uses the Integral Human Development conceptual framework to help design programs in the field. The framework and how it works is presented in this poster.
Baby-Friendly Farms
This poster explains how CRS is helping women practice exclusive breastfeeding and improve their nutrition through baby-friendly farms to reduce infant morbidity and mortality in Sierra Leone.