Welcome to CENFACS’ Online Diary!
24 January 2024
Post No. 336
The Week’s Contents
• Private Homeownership and Secure Land Tenure Project
• Halving Children
Povertyin the G5 Sahel• New Year’s Structured Finance Activities/Micro-projects under Financial Capacity and Capability Building Programme/Scheme: Activity 3 (24 to 30/01/2024)
… And much more!
Key Messages
• Private Homeownership and Secure Land Tenure Project or Project of Becoming Homeowners with Land Security in Africa
Our work with people in need, who would like to become private homeowners with secure land tenure, continues as we unveil the proposals for Private Homeownership and Secure Land Tenure Project (PHSLTP) or the Project of Becoming Homeowners with Land Security in Africa (PBHLSA).
PHSLTP or PBHLSA is an initiative that helps to reduce poverty by allocating power on home and land to those who would like to become private home and land owners in Africa. Through this project, CENFACS will work with Africa-based Sister Charitable Organisations, particularly those engaged in matters such as homeownership counselling, women and lands, financial mechanisms or tools relating to homeownership and land tenure, etc.
PHSLTP or PBHLSA will help beneficiaries to transition out poverty linked to the lack of homeownership and land insecurity. The project hopes to improve health, hygiene, and educational opportunities while ensuring access to clean water, safe toilet, sustainable electricity, and respite from heat and disease-spreading insects. It is also expected that the project will enhance the relationships these poor people have with land and land-based resources.
To extract more insights into PHSLTP or PBHLSA and its related proposals, please read under the Main Development section of this post.
• Halving Children Poverty in the G5 Sahel
Support the Severely Food Insecure Children in The G5 Sahel (Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger)
This appeal, which is part of CENFACS Light Campaign, is a humanitarian response to the ask for support on the life-saving and -sustaining needs of the G5 Sahel’s children, who are severely experiencing food insecurity.
As the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (1) explains “food insecurity is a situation that exists when people lack secure access to enough safe and nutritious food for normal growth and development and an active and healthy life” (p. 119)
Yet, the lack of food security continues to be an alarming issue for the children of G5 Sahel. The World Food Programme (2) found that
“In the year up to the end of October 2023, 1.9 million children under five years were admitted for treatment of severe wasting across nine Sahel countries representing a 20 percent increase as compared to the same period in 2022″.
Countries of the G5 Sahel are included in this figure.
The same World Food Programme (3) explained in 2023 that
“In the Sahel, in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger, the estimated number of children affected by acute malnutrition reached 6.3 million children this year [2023], compared to 3.8 million in 2019″ (p. 10)
The children of this group of five countries are suffering from fragile food systems. Amongst these children, there are those age between 6 and 23 months, who are not consuming the minimum number of food groups they need for optimal growth and development.
According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (4),
“The percentages of children of age between 6 and 23 months consuming at least 5 food groups (minimum dietary diversity) were 36% for Burkina Faso, 23% for Chad, 26% for Mali, 20% for Mauritania and 17% for Niger”.
These children cannot continue to experience this sort of life-threatening and destroying situation. All children no matter who they are, they should not experience severe food insecurity.
It is possible to end food insecurity for the children of G5 Sahel.
To help end food insecurity experienced by the G5 Sahel’s children, we are asking you to back them through this appeal.
You can help…
~ prevent child malnutrition happening in the G5 Sahel
~ children survive and live healthy and productive lives with dignity
~ avoid these children to reach or be in the most severe phase of food insecurity and a complete lack of access to food and other basic needs, phase 5 of food insecurity whereby a famine is declared.
You can help halve poverty for the children of G5 Sahel. You can support to halve the number of poor children in the G5 Sahel.
You can donate now £5 or more since the needs are urgent and pressing. Through this appeal and your support, CENFACS aims to reach these children with food security.
These children need your life-saving humanitarian response right now.
To donate, please get in touch with CENFACS.
• New Year’s Structured Finance Activities/Micro-projects under Financial Capacity and Capability Building Programme/Scheme: Activity 3 (24 to 30/01/2024)
We are continuing our programme and scheme to build Financial Capacity and Capability within the community. We are available to work in hybrid mode with users via the Financial Capacity and Capability Building Programme (FCCBP) or Scheme (FCCBS) so that our community members can be stronger this year. Both FCCBP and FCCBS will help beneficiaries to reduce risks linked to financial incapacity and incapability while improving their intergenerational income and transfers.
The third activities of FCCBP and FCCBS, which will be run from 24 to 30 January 2024, have been highlighted below.
• • 24 to 30 January 2024: Making Financial Knowledge and Skills Positively Impact on Your Financial Behaviour (Activity 3 of FCCBP)
In this activity, we will try to work with participants through a research pilot exercise with a simple questionnaire to understand financial management behaviour and how they can apply it in their real life. But, what is financial management behaviour?
Financial management behaviour can be understood in many ways. Its definition here comes from the work of Kholilah and Iramani in 2013, which has been mentioned by Anisah Firli and Nurul Hidayati (5). This mentioned definition is
“Financial management behaviour is a person’s financial management ability, ranging from planning, managing, and controlling to saving” (p. 43)
On the same page 43, Anisah Firli and Nurul Hidayati also quoted the work of Herlindawati in 2017, who argued that
“Financial management behaviour is identified as the impact of an increase in individual desires to meet the needs and wants by adjusting their income levels”.
These definitions will be used to determine the influence of financial knowledge, financial attitude, skills and personality on financial behaviour of the CENFACS Community.
If any of our users want to participate in this exercise, they can do it by contacting CENFACS. Those who have some concern about their financial behaviour, they can communicate with CENFACS as well.
• • 24 to 30 January 2024: Financial Capacity and Capability to Organise Money Management (Activity 3 of FCCBS)
To conduct money management, one may need to understand what it means. Our understanding of it is given by ‘nerdwallet.com’ (6) which states that
“Money management is a plan for your money so you can make the most of it. This plan typically involves budgeting and saving money, avoiding or reducing debt and investing your future”.
This definition can be put into practice. We can work with those who would like to arrange or prepare a plan about how they can or will deal with their money.
Indeed, being able to earn money is one chose. Being capable of organising the management of the money you earn is life-saving skill. In the this third activity of the above-mentioned scheme, we will be working with the kind of organisation that those in need would like to put in place in order to better manage their money. In this activity, we shall work with participants on how they can develop a simple money management plan,
If anyone of our members has a question on how to impact their financial knowledge and skills on their financial behaviour or how to organise their money management plan, they should not hesitate to contact CENFACS.
In additions, if they generally have problems in building their financial capacity and capability, they can communicate with CENFACS so that we can work together on these matters and help them stay stronger this New Year 2024.
Extra Messages
• 2024 Donor and Stewardship Development Programme
• 2024 All Year-round Projects (Triple Value Initiatives): Play, Run and Vote for Poverty Relief and Sustainable Development
• CENFACS’ be.Africa Forum Discuses Poverty Reduction in Africa in 2024
• 2024 Donor and Stewardship Development Programme
The 2024 collected processes and strategy for relationship-building with and retaining donors will consist of two areas: donor solicitations and donor products to match these solicitations.
• • Donor Solicitations
We are continuing our solicitation to some of you as donors and /or stewards of poverty relief as follows.
• • • Solicitation relating to CENFACS’ Donor Development Plan
Under this plan, donors can build quality donor-relations with CENFACS.
In this Year of Transitions out Poverty at CENFACS, donor developers can help us in a number of ways, such as:
σ Influence the right people engaged to and informed about our work
σ Make our donations to grow over time
σ Help with technology like donor management software
σ Increase the levels of involvement from users
σ Help us to manage donors expectations
σ Assist us in donor-development goals and tasks such as event support.
• • • Solicitation relating to CENFACS’ Donor Stewardship Programme
Under this programme, you can help us in the following:
σ Steward donors
σ Build and maintain lasting relationships and communications with those who gave to our users or us a gift or any of our noble and beautiful causes
σ Enable access to and use of donor stewardship tools.
• • Donor Development Products on Offer in 2024
We are giving away the products below to those who would like to engage, develop their interest, to build bond and loyalty to CENFACS and CENFACS’ work.
We are offering to the donor development market a donor status to enable those who want to commit themselves on regular basis to giving or boosting their status as donor to have the opportunity to do so.
We are inviting those who want to commit themselves as funder or donor to do so. They can do it by supporting CENFACS with a silver donation, a great relief and a product booster.
• • • Free for Supporters: Silver Status
Silver status is the legacy of CENFACS’ “Quadranscentennial” Year (2019). It is about supporting our projects as you can or as you choose if you visit them or if you happen to be within the area of their implementation. This will boost your support and help you to win a silver status as CENFACS’ Supporter in a CENFACS’ Year of Transitions.
Alternatively, you can fund CENFACS’ Year of Transitions to win the same status and continue CENFACS’ legacy.
• • • Want to provide Great Relief as a Supporter
You can provide great relief by becoming a regular giver or supporter, adding value to you support and boosting your support.
For example, at this challenging time of the cost-of-living crisis, we need those who can provide that sort of relief to keep our action going and out of the disruption caused by the cost-of-living crisis.
Many individuals and organisations stepped in to support their good deserving causes during the storming time of the health crisis (the coronavirus crisis); you can do the same by supporting CENFACS during this time of the cost-of-living crisis.
For those interested in, they can contact CENFACS for details about becoming a Great Reliever.
• • • Need to boost your support or stewardship as a Product Booster
You can choose a particular sustainable initiative or programme or even CENFACS as your boost product.
You can support 3 projects or 2 projects and CENFACS
You can support 3 programmes or 2 programmes and CENFACS.
This will elevate your position as a Project or Programme Funder or a Product Booster
For further details about boosting your support or stewardship, please contact CENFACS.
• 2024 All Year-round Projects (Triple Value Initiatives): Play, Run and Vote for Poverty Relief and Sustainable Development
CENFACS’ Triple Value Initiatives, the All Year-round Projects, are now back for this year. You can play, run and vote to reduce poverty this year again.
The 2024 Edition of All Year-round Projects starts this 24 January 2024.
You can Run or Organise a Run Activity to Reduce Poverty in 2024.
You can Play the CENFACS League for Poverty Relief.
You can Vote your 2024 African Poverty Relief Manager.
Before proceeding with one of the All Year Round Projects, it is recommendable to speak to CENFACS. We can discuss in details together your plan or the way you want to participate or engage with these initiatives.
• • How CENFACS Can Help You to Engage with Triple Value Initiatives
The following examples show what we can discuss together before you start.
Example 1: Run Themes
For example, let’s take Run to Reduce Poverty.
There are Run Themes. You can Run alone or Run as group or even Run for fun. You can do Seasonal Run or Run to raise money for one of our noble and beautiful causes or even Run to raise awareness. However, there are health and safety issues that everyone who will be involved in this Run activity must follow.
There are ways of making your Run event simpler. To do that, you can contact CENFACS before you plan your event. CENFACS can help you to select your theme. You need to confirm the date and time with CENFACS.
There are other things to consider as well such as: location, engagement in activities, prizes (rewards for participants), health and safety issues, child protection policy if children are involved, insurance cover, budget, refreshments, etc.
Example 2: Play Station Game
Let’s take another example, which is Playing CENFACS’ League for Poverty Relief.
You can create your own play station game with CENFACS’ League and run your own tournament and matches. You can even involve colleagues, friends and families sharing the same passion about how the selected African countries are working to reduce poverty. You can group or rate these countries according to poverty reduction performance (showing which one comes on top, middle and bottom). You can as well use game theories if you know them. Like for Run activity, you must include health and safety measures and guidance.
Example 3: People to Watch
Let’s take the last example, which is Voting Your Poverty Relief Manager.
You can create your own list of Top 24 People to Watch throughout the year. One or two of them will be potentially the best managers of 2024. You can collect data and facts about them, follow their annual performance, assess their achievements and vote the best between the two at the end.
While you are running or organising a run activity, playing the CENFACS’ League and voting your Manager of the Year 2024; we would like you to share with us and others your progress, news, events, experiences, stories and reports regarding these projects. We would like as well to hear from you some of the pitfalls or hurdles you may encounter in the process of dealing with your chosen initiative/project. The end product of your share will be a kind of Action-Results Report 2024.
• • What We Would Like to Hear at the End of This Process
We would like to hear from you the following three bests or stars of the year:
√ The Best African Country or Countries of 2024 which will best reduce poverty
√ The Best African Global Games Runners of 2024
√ The Best African Development Managers of 2024.
The deadline to tell us your bests or stars is 23 December 2024.
As we progress throughout the year, further information and support (in the form of workshop, discussion, questionnaire, questions-answers, focus group, etc.) will be released for CENFACS’ Triple Value Initiatives.
Please remember, the early you start the better for you.
For more information about these projects, please contact CENFACS.
• CENFACS’ be.Africa Forum Discuses Poverty Reduction in Africa in 2024
How Africa’s Charitable Organisations Can Use the Tremendous Opportunities They Have to Further Reduce Poverty in Africa in 2024
In our last week’s post, we highlighted a number of opportunities that Africa may have in 2024. Amongst these opportunities, one can include the following:
Africa will be the second fastest-growing regional economy in the world at 4 per cent in 2024; 2024 as the first full year of operation of upgraded Lobito Corridor in Angola; 2024 is another democratic transitions year; the launch of Pan-African Payment and Settlement System, 2024 will be a year of permanent seat at G20 (Group of 20); demographic transitions in Africa, etc.
On the side of challenges, we mentioned that Africa could face many challenges in 2024 like the ones listed below:
increase food insecurity; debt distress; a year of prolonged conflicts, poor rule of law, human rights abuses, discrimination, exclusion and unemployment, and resurgence of resource nationalism.
There is an additional challenge, which is extreme poverty. Regarding poverty in Africa, ‘worldpopulationreview.com’ (7) argues, in its ranking of the poorest countries in Africa in 2024, that
“Africa is the poorest continent with 22 of the 26 low-income economies as per the World Bank”.
The ‘worldpopulationreview.com’ also adds that
“The 10 poorest countries in Africa (by 2020 Gross Domestic Product per capita, purchasing power parity, current int. $) are Burundi, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Mozambique, Niger, Liberia, Chad, Malawi and Madagascar”.
Likewise, the website ‘statista.com’ (8) states that
“In 2022, around 431 million people in Africa were living in extreme poverty with the poverty threshold at 1.90 US dollars a day”.
In this first discussion of our forum, we are debating how Africa’s charitable organisations can turn the challenges faced by Africa into opportunities to achieve big numbers in poverty reduction. The debate is also revolving around what these organisations can do to use the array of opportunities of 2024 so that 2024 could be remembered in living memory as a post-pandemic year of truly great results in terms of poverty reduction and sustainable development.
The above are the terms of reference for our first discussion of 2024. CENFACS’ be.Africa Forum would like to hear your views or opinions on the above-mentioned discussion. CENFACS’ be.Africa Forum would like to know what you think given that the World Bank (9) made a mixed statement about Sub-Saharan Africa in its Global Economic Prospects 2024; statement which is:
“Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to rebound to 3.8 percent in 2024 and 4.1 percent in 2025 as country-specific factors that have temporarily weighed on growth, including reduced fiscal support and metal-exporting economies’ adjusting to lower prices, gradually ease… Despite the projected pickup in growth, increases in per capita incomes will remain inadequate to enable the region’s economies make significant progress in reducing extreme poverty” (p. 87)
Those who may be interested in this discussion can join in and or contribute by contacting CENFACS’ be.Africa, which is a forum for discussion on matters and themes of poverty reduction and sustainable development in Africa and which acts on behalf of its members in making proposals or ideas for actions for a better Africa. They can contact us at our usual address on this site.
Message in French (Message en français)
• Le Forum ‘Une Afrique Meilleure’ de CENFACS discute en ligne de la réduction de la pauvreté en Afrique en 2024
Comment les organisations caritatives africaines peuvent-elles tirer parti des formidables opportunités et débouchés qui s’offrent à elles pour réduire davantage la pauvreté en Afrique en 2024?
Dans notre article de la semaine dernière, nous avons mis en évidence un certain nombre d’opportunités et débouchés que l’Afrique pourrait avoir en 2024. Parmi ces opportunités, on peut citer les suivantes:
~ L’Afrique sera la deuxième économie régionale à la croissance la plus rapide au monde avec environ 4 % en 2024
~ 2024 sera la première année complète d’exploitation du corridor Lobito amélioré en Angola
~ 2024 est une autre année de transitions démocratiques
~ le lancement du système panafricain de paiement et de règlement
~ 2024 sera pour l’Afrique une année de siège permanent au G20 (Groupe des 20)
~ les transitions démographiques en Afrique, etc.
Du côté des défis, nous avons mentionné que l’Afrique pourrait faire face à de nombreux défis en 2024 comme ceux énumérés ci-dessous:
l’accroîssement de l’insécurité alimentaire; le surendettement; une année de conflits prolongés, d’état de droit médiocre, de violations des droits de l’homme, de discrimination, d’exclusion et de chômage, et de résurgence du nationalisme des ressources.
Il y a un défi supplémentaire, qui est l’extrême pauvreté. S’agissant de la pauvreté en Afrique, « worldpopulationreview.com » (7) affirme, dans son classement des pays les plus pauvres d’Afrique en 2024, que
« L’Afrique est le continent le plus pauvre avec 22 des 26 économies à faible revenu selon la Banque mondiale ».
Le ‘worldpopulationreview.com’ ajoute également que
« Les 10 pays les plus pauvres d’Afrique (par rapport au 2020 Produit intérieur brut par habitant, parité de pouvoir d’achat, $ int. courant) sont le Burundi, la République Centrafricaine, la République Démocratique du Congo, la Somalie, le Mozambique, le Niger, le Libéria, le Tchad, le Malawi et Madagascar ».
De même, le site web « statista.com » (8) indique que
« En 2022, environ 431 millions de personnes en Afrique vivaient dans l’extrême pauvreté avec un seuil de pauvreté de 1,90 dollar par jour ».
Dans cette première discussion de notre forum, nous debatons la manière dont les organisations caritatives africaines peuvent transformer les défis auxquels l’Afrique est confrontée en opportunités pour atteindre un grand nombre de cibles dans la réduction de la pauvreté. Le débat tourne également autour de ce que ces organisations peuvent faire pour tirer parti de cet éventail d’opportunités de 2024 afin que 2024 puisse rester dans les mémoires comme une année post-pandémique de résultats vraiment excellents en termes de réduction de la pauvreté et de développement durable.
Ce qui précède constitue le cadre de référence de notre première discussion de 2024. Le Forum ‘Une Afrique Meilleure’ de CENFACS aimerait connaître votre point de vue ou vos opinions sur la discussion mentionnée ci-dessus. Le Forum ‘Une Afrique Meilleure’ de CENFACS aimerait savoir ce que vous en pensez étant donné que la Banque mondiale (7) a fait un bilan mitigé sur l’Afrique subsaharienne dans ses Perspectives Economiques Mondiales 2024; qui est:
« La croissance en Afrique subsaharienne devrait rebondir à 3,8 % en 2024 et à 4,1 % en 2025, à mesure que les facteurs propres à certains pays qui ont temporairement pesé sur la croissance, notamment la réduction des mesures de soutien budgétaire et l’ajustement des économies exportatrices de métaux à la baisse des prix, s’atténueront progressivement… Malgré l’accélération prévue de la croissance, l’augmentation des revenus par habitant restera insuffisante pour permettre aux économies de la région de faire des progrès significatifs dans la réduction de l’extrême pauvreté » (p. 87)
Les personnes susceptibles d’être intéressées par cette discussion peuvent y participer et/ou y contribuer en contactant le Forum ‘Une Afrique Meilleure’ de CENFACS, qui est un lieu de discussion sur les questions et les thèmes de la réduction de la pauvreté et du développement durable en Afrique et qui agit au nom de ses membres en faisant des propositions ou des idées d’actions pour une Afrique meilleure. Ils peuvent nous contacter à notre adresse habituelle sur ce site.
Main Development
• Private Homeownership and Secure Land Tenure Project or Project of Becoming Homeowners with Land Security in Africa
The following items provide the key information about Private Homeownership and Secure Land Tenure Project (PHSLTP) or Project of Becoming Homeowners with Land Security in Africa (PBHLSA):
σ Definition of PHSLTP/PBHLSA
σ The Aim of PHSLTP/PBHLSA
σ PHSLTP/PBHLSA Beneficiaries
σ Outcomes
σ PHSLTP/PBHLSA Indicators
σ Project Funding Status
σ Impact Monitoring and Evaluation.
Let us summarise each of these items.
• • Definition of PHSLTP/PBHLSA
PHSLTP or PBHLSA is an initiative that helps to reduce poverty by allocating power on home and land to those who would like to become private home and land owners in Africa. Through this project, CENFACS will work with Africa-based Sister Charitable Organisations, particularly those engaged in maters such as homeownership counselling, women and lands, financial mechanisms or tools relating to homeownership and land tenure, etc.
The project will use a rights-based approach in order to respond to the needs of poverty reduction from poor and vulnerable people in Africa in terms of equal rights to economic resources, access to basic services, ownership and control over properties and land.
• • The Aim of PHSLTP/PBHLSA
The main aim of this project is to help reduce poverty linked to the lack of access to sustainable homes and lands for those poor people who would like to become homeowners and/or land owners in Africa. This aim will be achieved by working with Africa-based Sister Charitable Organisations specialised in homeownership, land ownership, rights to land, women and gender matters.
Through this project, there will be the delivery of services such as homeownership counselling, financial advice and guidance relating to access to sustainable homes and properties, signposting to organisations and institutions dealing with homeownership and land ownership finance for the needy, etc. These services are designed to respond to the needs of poverty reduction in matters surrounding homeownership and land ownership for project beneficiaries.
• • PHSLTP/PBHLSA Beneficiaries
Amongst the types of people in need who could benefit from PHSLTP/PBHLSA, as defined above, are
√ Those who would like to become sustainable homeowners
√ Those who do not have their land rights recognised
√ Those with insecure land rights
√ The excluded vulnerable groups such as women, indigenous people and the poor
√ Those who need help with homeownership counselling services
√ Those who are looking for microfinance to access homeownership
√ Informal sector workers like traders, workers and craftsmen
√ Those in need of access to credit and skills to become homeowner and/or land owner
√ Poor and vulnerable home owners
etc.
Most of the above-mentioned types of beneficiaries will need some form of support in terms of guidance on how they can access homeownership and /or land ownership. For those who are already homeowners and/or land owners but they are poor, they may also require guidance on how they can improve their conditions.
• • Outcomes
After the implementation of PHSLTP/PBHLSA, it is expected that the following will be achieved:
√ Reduction in the number of those without access to homeownership or land ownership
√ Improvement in the capital appreciation of land for customary system users
√ Enhancement of the relations between humans and land, between humans and land-based resources
√ Improvement in secure tenure rights to land and property
√ Progress in women’s status and voice on homeownership and land issues
√ Decrease in the number of those without sustainable homes
√ Potential homeowners and land owners will become better informed and guided on sustainable homes
√ Betterment of land perceptions within the community
etc.
However, it is better to differentiate outcomes in project beneficiaries from those relating to Africa-based Sister Charitable Organisations.
• • • Outcomes in project beneficiaries
By using PHSLTP/PBHLSA, project beneficiaries will
√ be aware about their land tenure rights and obligations
√ avoid or reduce poverty linked to the lack of access to homeownership and land ownership
√ improve their well-being through homeownership and/or landownership
√ increase their voice on land tenure security. especially for women and other vulnerable groups
√ make responsible decisions in terms of homeownership schemes or plans or even choices
√ improve their aspiration and motivation about homeownership and/or landownership
√ ameliorate their confidence, trust and self-esteem regarding homeownership and/or landownership services and products offered to them
√ build or develop their homeownership capacity and capability skills
√ enhance their land owner skills and knowledge
√ reform relationships between project beneficiaries and lands, between project beneficiaries and land-based resources
√ boost people’s perception, competence, knowledge and capability about land ownership matters
etc.
Briefly, project beneficiaries will improve their access to homeownership and land ownership.
• • • Outcomes in Africa-based Sister Charitable Organisations (ASCOs)
Work undertaken by ASCOs to help reduce poverty linked to the lack of access to homeownership and landownership will lead to:
√ adaptation of local needs and the needs of beneficiaries in their delivery of homeownership and land ownership service
√ generating better local insights and capacities to create solutions to poverty linked to poor or the lack of homeownership and land ownership
√ reduction in the risk in financing homeownership and land ownership projects and programmes for the locals and local needs
√ assisting in the innovation of solutions to poverty for the needy of access to homeownership and land ownership
√ knowledge of financial risk transfer mechanisms between generations (for instance, the transfer of poverty between generations via homeownership and landownership)
√ capturing metrics relating to poverty and way of improving these metrics
√ increasing financial development in the area of homeownership and land ownership support for the needy within beneficiaries’ community
√ reducing economic deprivation linked to poor or the lack of homeownership and land ownership
etc.
In short, working with ASCOs will cover the above-stated areas. These areas will depend on the activities or services that ASCOs are specialised in or are prepared to embark on.
• • PHSLTP/PBHLSA Indicators
The measures below will help find out whether or not the project will reach its desired objectives and progress towards meeting its defined aim:
√ the number of poor people who will be supported by this project
√ the number of poor people who will have a good perception of the security of property rights
√ the reduction in the number of poor homeowners and land owners
√ the number of the locals who will become homeowners and/or land owners
√ the number/percentage of women with secure land tenure
√ the proportion of project beneficiaries with secure tenure rights to land
√ the number of homeowners and land owners living above the poverty line
√ the number of people whose well-being will improve as they become homeowners and/or land owners
√ the number of surveyed poor people who are happy (optimistic) or unhappy (pessimistic) to PHSLTP/PBHLSA support provided or offered to them
√ the number of poor people who will be far, on the average, from poverty line as a result of the implementation of PHSLTP/PBHLSA
etc.
To sum up, PHSLTP/PBHLSA is project that will help to reduce poverty linked to the lack of access to private homeownership and secure land tenure by poor Africans. The project will contribute to the building of good relationships between beneficiaries and lands, between beneficiaries and land-based resources. It will help locals to access low-cost housing and land opportunities while fighting poverty through homeownership and land ownership accesses.
• • Project Funding Status
So far, this project is unfunded. This means we are open to any credible funding proposals or proposition from potential funders or donors. Those who would like to support this project will be more than welcome.
To fully or partly fund this project, please contact CENFACS.
• • Impact Monitoring and Evaluation
As part of impact monitoring, there will be routine and systematic gathering of information on all aspects of the project. In other words, we will systematically collect and analyse information to keep regular checks and balances on the project.
Likewise, we shall assess what the project will achieve in relation to its main aim. This is to say that evaluation will be conducted regarding the efforts spent on this project to find out whether or not these efforts are value for relief as far as poverty reduction is concerned.
In proceeding in this manner, we will be able to measure the impact or at least the outcomes from this project.
The full project proposals including budget are available on request.
To support or contribute to this project, please contact CENFACS.
For further details including full project proposals and budget about Private Homeownership and Secure Land Tenure or Project of Becoming Homeowners with Land Security in Africa; please contact CENFACS.
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• References
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