Welcome to CENFACS’ Online Diary!
22 May 2024
Post No. 353
The Week’s Contents
• Basic Trading Skills Development Project
• All in Development Stories Telling Serial 4: Stories of Building Connections and of Forming Systems (From Wednesday 22/05/2024)
• Conflict- and Natural Disaster-related Internally Displaced Persons in Africa Need Your Influence Now!
… And much more!
Key Messages
• Basic Trading Skills Development Project
Basic Trading Skills Development Project (or Trading Skills Project) takes to a practical level some of the information we provided in CENFACS’ Issue No. 83 of FACS this Spring 2024, which is titled Charity Trade, Investment and Poverty Reduction in Africa. It takes it at the level of people and communities working with our Africa-based Sister Organisations and who would like to engage in trade or to improve the way they are trading in order to reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development. To understand how it takes at their level, it is better to explain what Trading Skills Project is.
Trading Skills Project is an initiative that will help to reduce poverty by providing new skills to or reskilling or skilling up those who are looking forward to trade to make ends meet or to improve their enterprising model in the African context.
Trading Skills Project is as well a systemic resilience response to some of the issues that prospective poor traders and those poor people who would like to join the world of trading to reduce poverty may face in a case there is a crisis or shock from a trading ecosystem they are part of.
Trading Skills Project will deal with skills that those who would like to engage with trade in order to make ends meet as it will provide them with the skills and algorithm they need to trade confidently and consistently.
As ‘mytradingskills.com’ (1) puts it
“Trading is like any skill, it takes time, effort, and commitment to get good enough at it to deliver the outcomes new traders want”.
Trading Skills Project will help tackling skills gap in trade in Africa by providing beneficiaries with critical skills to scale up trade to deliver poverty reduction on a large scale.
Briefly speaking, Trading Skills Project will be achieved through the development of trade capacity and capability building to trade and reduce poverty. As it stands, the project is not only about developing trade skills, but also reducing poverty through the skills acquired or at least putting project beneficiaries in the right direction to reduce poverty.
More details about Trading Skills Project can be found under the Main Development section of this post.
• All in Development Stories Telling Serial 4: Stories of Building Connections and of Forming Systems (From Wednesday 22/05/2024)
The last series of our two-story programme is on Stories of Building Connections and of Forming Systems. What are these stories? Let us explain each of these sets of stories.
• • Stories of Building Connections
Giving these stories is more than just listing them. It is about understanding connection and knowing the goal in building connections.
• • • Understanding Connection and the Goal in Building Connections
Connecting is about learning to develop better relationships with others. According to ‘betterup.com’ (2),
“Connecting is about more than socializing – it is a transferable skill that can help you grow professionally and personally”.
The same ‘betterup.com’ provides 10 tips to help you build and strengthen connections with people.
However, connections cannot happen without goal. The goal in building connections is, according to ‘berkeleywellbeing.com’ (3),
“To find the people that make us feel really good about ourselves, less lonely, and well-supported”.
So, understanding connections and the goal in building connections can lead to Stories of Building Connections. What are these stories?
• • • What are Stories of Building Connections?
Stories of Building Connections are the tellings of building genuine connections to reset systems – our poverty reduction system.
By referring to the argument of ‘berkeleywellbeing.com’ (op. cit.), Stories of Building Connections are those of
√ building personal connections
√ making family connections
√ forming other healthy connections
√ interpersonal communications
√ activities to build connections
√ constituting your networks
√ creating meaningful relationships
etc.
By drawing from the 10 tips provided by ‘betterup.com’ (op. cit.), Stories of Building Connections are those of
1) being your authentic self
2) respecting people’s boundaries
3) staying focused
4) moving past the surface level
5) sharing the conversation
6) being genuine with your admiration
7) being a good listener
8) scheduling your time
9) maintaining eye contact
10) offering a smile.
If you are a member of CENFACS Community and have these types of story, please do not hesitate to tell and share your stories with CENFACS. If you are not our member, you can still submit your story.
To donate, tell and share your storying gift of Stories of Building Connections, please contact CENFACS.
• • Stories of Forming Systems
Perhaps, the better way of understanding these stories is to know what a system is.
• • • What is a system?
The website ‘madlymused.com’ (4) states that
“A system is a series of steps that you go through the same way every time you do a task. This standardized process help you reach the same result every time. It ensures quality and efficiency”.
The same ‘madlymused.com’ explains that
“Systems can be complex processes you use in your business, or they can be simple routines that you use in your daily life. We develop many of the systems we already have in our lives so naturally that we don’t even notice them”.
Systems can be created. At the beginning of our two-story series (i.e., System Reset and Change Stories), we argued that systems can be reset. However, if a system is no longer fit for resetting purposes, it can be changed. If the system is failing the people it is supposed to serve and is no longer fit for resetting purpose, then change may be required. In other words, one can create or form a new system to replace the broken or unfit one.
As part of system change, CENFACS has been advocated for years for a New International System for Poverty Reduction (or World Anti-poverty System) to modernise the old institutions of Bretton Woods. Taking the same line of reasoning, Africa asked for systemic financial reforms to the global financial architecture. CENFACS‘ advocacy and Africa’s ask are the demand to form new systems. In CENFACS‘ case, it is about a new system to serve the poor and bridge the gap in the institutions of Bretton Woods. In the case of Africa, it is about expressing the argument for systemic reforms to a global financial architecture that is not fit for the need of the poor.
Knowing what systems are and making a demand for a new system provide stories to tell and share.
• • • What are Stories of Forming Systems?
Stories of Forming Systems are the reports of forming a new system. They are also those of creating systems. If you refer to simple 4-step model of creating systems as provided by ‘madlymused.com’ (op. cit.), Stories of Forming Systems are those of
√ making a list of tasks needed to create a new system
√ writing down the steps required to complete those tasks
√ writing on a detailed description of each step
√ incorporating checks and balances into the systems to add accountability.
Briefly speaking, Stories of Forming Systems are those of creating a set of interconnected parts to form a complex whole.
If you are a member of CENFACS Community and have these types of story, please do not hesitate to tell and share your stories with CENFACS. If you are not our member, you can still submit your story.
To donate, tell and share your storying gift of Stories of Forming Systems, please contact CENFACS.
Let us conclude these All in Development Stories Telling Series of May 2024 by saying that stories can motive others on the road of reducing or ending poverty. And System Reset and Change Stories do not escape from this attribute about what stories can do to their listeners. In other words, your pieces of System Reset and Change Stories can motivate others to improve their lives. If you have these stories, please do not hesitate to tell and share them.
• Conflict- and Natural Disaster-related Internally Displaced Persons in Africa Need Your Influence Now!
Conflicts and natural disasters continue to displace peoples and communities in Africa. According to this month’s report by the ‘api.internal-displacement.org’ (5), African countries with the most internal displacement in terms of conflict (and violence) and disasters during 2023 were the ones mentioned on the following table:
As table 1 shows, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo recorded the second-highest figure in terms of displacement triggered by conflict and violence. According the same ‘api.internal-displacement.org’ disasters also triggered six million displacements across Africa.
Yet, it is possible to reduce the rise in displacements, the causes of both new and older wars and drawn-out conflicts. It is feasible to help the internally displaced persons in Africa (IDPA) to start returning home. It is not impossible to prevent new crises of this kind to happen. It is even probable to strengthen resilience capacity building of peoples and communities in Africa by promoting durable solutions to displacement.
• • The Internally Displaced Persons in Africa Need Your Positive Influence
Because of these possibilities and probabilities, the Internally Displaced Persons need your positive influence to act on the forces that are leading to human displacement in Africa. You can use your influence on those who hold the key to conflicts in Africa. You can as well put your influence on the man-made factors that contribute to natural events like droughts, storms, earthquakes, wildfires and other geophysical events. These events continue to cause displacement in Africa.
Because of the impacts of these events, the IDPA who are bearing the brunt of this crises or events need your Positive Influence to end their suffering. Your Positive Influence can deliver meaningful tangible and life-saving outcomes than what you may not think.
• • What Your Positive Influence Can Achieve for them
Your Positive Influence can help
√ To support the Humanitarian Response Plan for IDPA
√ To stop violations and abuses of human rights and international humanitarian law
√ To encourage the return of displaced persons
√ To end gender-based violence (e.g. violence against young girls) amongst IDPA
√ To enhance the implementation of life-saving responses
√ Briefly, to alleviate the suffering of the vulnerable IDPA.
• • Who Your Positive Influence Will Benefit
The beneficiaries of your Positive Influence or Influencing Donation will be
√ Those who are bearing the brunt of this continuing conflicts and natural disasters
√ Those who are experiencing the life-threatening effects of violence and insecurity
√ Those who are without or with limited access to basic services such as water, sanitation and hygiene
√ Those who are the victims of gender-violence such as young girls
√ Those who are suffering from increased vulnerability and eroded livelihoods
√ In brief, the IDPA because of conflicts and natural disasters that threatened their lives.
You can donate your Positive Influence to reduce poverty in Africa where displacements are happening because conflicts and natural disasters.
To donate, please contact influential persons (or those having the keys) to reduce or solve the life-threatening effects from the continuing displacement crisis that the African countries are suffering from and make these influential persons reduce or end these damaging effects on them.
You can as well influence the things or factors that play in the continuity of this displacement crisis in order to create lasting favourable conditions for a return to life normality.
Please also let CENFACS know about your influencing work or contribution you are or will be making and its outcomes on behalf of the people of Africa.
To let us know, you can contact CENFACS as follows:
*over phone
*via email
*through text
*by filling the contact form on this site.
On receipt of the outcome of your influencing donation, CENFACS will contact you for record and thank you for any influencing donation made. However, should you wish your influencing support to remain anonymous; we will respect your wish.
Thank you in anticipation for your willingness to give your Positive Influence to alleviate the suffering that the IDPA are facing from the continuing displacement crisis.
Extra Messages
• Volunteers’ Stories of Actions across All Fronts of System Reset and Change
• Activity 4 of Nature Projects and Nature-based Solutions to Poverty: Art and Design about Benefit-Sharing Mechanisms (From Week Beginning Monday 27/05/2024)
• Fundraising and Journaling Your Run to Reduce Poverty in Africa during This Event Season
• Volunteers’ Stories of Actions across All Fronts of System Reset and Change
These stories could be related to actions generally taken in volunteering capacity to help people and communities in need in four ways of resetting the system to
a) Change their mindset
b) Create new metrics
c) Design new incentives
d) Build a genuine connection.
They could also be actions in which a volunteer got specifically involved and at the fronts of the four strategies or tips for changing a system, which are
a) seeing the whole system rather just its parts
b) looking at patterns of change rather than static snapshots
c) understanding key interconnections within a system and between systems
d) forming a new system (e.g., a new system of poverty reduction).
Both system reset and system change stories from volunteers respond to our model of two-story sequences.
To tell, share and provide opportunity for learning development through your story of volunteers’ actions across all the fronts of system reset and change; please contact CENFACS.
• Activity 4 of Nature Projects and Nature-based Solutions to Poverty: Art and Design about Benefit-Sharing Mechanisms (From Week Beginning Monday 27/05/2024)
Like the previous activities, Activity 4 falls under the scope of target 19 of the Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (6) adopted at the Fifteenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. Before highlighting it, let us explain benefit-sharing mechanisms.
• • What Are Benefit-Sharing Mechanisms?
According to ‘cifor-icraf.org’ (7),
“Benefit-sharing mechanisms are a broad term that encompasses all institutional means, structures and instruments for distributing finance and other benefits from REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries)”.
The website ‘cbd.int’ (8) goes further by explaining that
“Access and benefit-sharing refer to the way in which genetic resources may be accessed, and how the benefits that result from their use are shared between the people or countries using the resources (users) and the people or countries that provide them (providers)”.
Knowing what benefit-sharing mechanisms mean, we can now state the aim of this activity.
• • Aim of Activity 4
This activity aims at the creation of works of beauty and making drawing/model showing how the sharing of benefits derived from biodiversity conservation can be beneficial for indigenous and other local peoples.
Because it is about creating the works of beauty and making drawings/models, let us speak about benefit-sharing images.
• • Images of Art and Design about Benefit-Sharing Mechanisms
Participants to Activity 4 will look at and share the images of benefit-sharing mechanisms, as well as discuss how these shared images can help in understanding biodiversity conservation and nature issues. They will draw their own images, compare them and choose the best ones responding to the benefit-sharing theme.
For those who would like to engage with Activity 4, they should not hesitate to contact CENFACS.
To conclude the fourth series of Nature Projects, let us repeat ourselves by saying that to implement biodiversity strategy and action plans, it requires financial resources. The notes produced for the four activities give some clues and tips on how having a financial dimension inside biodiversity can be useful to protect it.
The next series (fifth series) of our work on Nature Projects will be announced in due course. In meantime, for those who would like to find out more about Nature Projects and Nature-based Solutions to Poverty, they can communicate with CENFACS.
• Fundraising and Journaling Your Run to Reduce Poverty in Africa during This Event Season
Let us start with fundraising aspect of your Run Project, then writing aspect of it – its journal.
• • Introducing a Giving Feature in the Run Activity
For those who are running events in the context of Triple Value Initiative of ‘Run to Reduce Poverty in Africa in 2024’, they can use the opportunity of the event season to introduce a giving feature in their Run activity. They can ask those who are involved in the run with them to support good causes, including CENFACS‘ noble and beautiful ones. This ask for support concerns both in-person and virtual runs.
• • • Keeping Run Activity Cost-effective with a Fundraising Feature
They can make their Run activity cost-effective with a fundraising feature while running with or without others. Once the fundraising element has been inserted, it is wise to evaluate their fundraising drive. To evaluate it, they can proceed with the evaluation steps suggested by ‘classy.org’ (9), steps which include analysis of fundraising data, tracking of numbers and performance, staying focused on the mission of their Run project, evaluation of fundraising results and to be forward thinking.
However, they must remember that the aim of the CENFACS’ Run to Reduce Poverty in Africa is to select or find the African best runner of poverty reduction in 2024, rather than raising money.
• • • Having Problems in Installing or Inserting a Fundraising Feature
For those who may be having or are experiencing some problems in installing or inserting a fundraising feature in their runs, there are resources both online and in print on how to organise a fundraising event for a Run Project. Amongst the resources is the one provided by ‘donorbox.org’ (10). It is worthwhile looking at this resource as it provides eight steps to realise your fundraising event.
For those who would like to involve or talk to CENFACS about their Run Project, they can speak to CENFACS.
• • Journaling the Run Project
They can as well journal and develop a story about their Run activity. They can share the contents of their journal and story of run with us and others.
Journaling their Run Project can have benefits. To get those benefits, one needs to have a goal and plan activities/achievements.
• • • Benefits of Journaling your Run Project
The journal will help you to capture the moments of your Run Project via expressive writing and story. It can have other benefits such as setting goals, tracking or measuring their progress on Run Project, recording and celebrating achievements and gaining both general and specific perspectives of your Run Project. They can even show their style and express their feeling or character through their writing. Another good thing of journaling their Run Project is that it makes things easy when it comes to report to CENFACS and others before the deadline of 23 December 2024.
• • • Journaling the Goal of Run Project
The goal is basically to explore and enrich one’s Run Project through creative writing. This goal does not stop users of Run Project to have their own journaling goal. Besides their journaling goal, they need to add what their journal can help achieve.
• • • What one’s Journal of Run Project can achieve
It can achieve many things including the following:
∝ Solve problems encountered in the cycle of your Run Project
∝ Enhance one’s health and wellness via Run Project
∝ Improve Run Project outcomes.
For those who are undertaking a Run Project and would like to write a journal about their activity, they can do it. There are many online and print resources available on the matter. Please select resources that are concise and have some links with your Run Project.
For those who would like to approach CENFACS for help and support to write a Journal of Run Project or to select appropriate resources, they are welcome to do so.
To discuss your progress regarding your Run Project, the fundraising feature and Journal of your Run Project or any other issues relating to All Year Round Projects (Triple Value Initiatives), please do not hesitate to contact CENFACS.
Message in French (Message en français)
• Les personnes déplacées intérieurement par les conflits et les catastrophes naturelles en Afrique ont besoin de votre influence maintenant!
Les conflits et les catastrophes naturelles continuent de mettre en évidence les peuples et les communautés en Afrique. Selon le rapport de ce mois-ci du ‘api.internal-displacement.org’ (5), les pays africains ayant enregistré le plus de déplacements internes en termes de conflits (et de violence) et de catastrophes en 2023 étaient les suivants: le Soudan, la République Démocratique du Congo, la Somalie, l’Éthiopie et le Burkina Faso.
Ces pays ont respectivement enregistré les chiffres suivants en termes de personnes déplacées par un conflit et de personnes déplacées par des catastrophes naturelles:
~ le Soudan: 6 039 000 et 58 000
~ la République Démocratique du Congo: 3 772 000 et 133 000
~ la Somalie: 673 000 et 2 043 000
~ l’Éthiopie: 794 000 et 618 000
~ le Burkina Faso: 707 000 et 24 000.
Comme les chiffres ci-dessus l’indiquent, le Soudan et la République Démocratique du Congo ont enregistré le deuxième chiffre le plus élevé en termes de déplacements déclenchés par les conflits et la violence. Selon le même «api.internal-displacement.org», les catastrophes ont également déclenché six millions de déplacements à travers l’Afrique. La Somalie ayant le chiffre le plus élevé en termes de déplacements engendrés par les catastrophes naturelles.
Pourtant, il est possible de réduire l’augmentation des déplacements, les causes des guerres nouvelles et anciennes et des conflits prolongés. Il est aussi possible d’aider les personnes déplacées en Afrique (PDA) à commencer à rentrer chez elles. Il n’est pas impossible d’empêcher que de nouvelles crises de ce genre ne se produisent. Il est même probable de renforcer la résilience des peuples et des communautés en Afrique en promouvant des solutions durables au déplacement.
• • Les personnes déplacées en Afrique ont besoin de votre influence positive
En raison de ces possibilités et probabilités, les personnes déplacées à l’intérieur de leur propre pays ont besoin de votre influence positive pour agir sur les forces qui conduisent au déplacement humain en Afrique.
Vous pouvez user de votre influence sur ceux ou celles qui détiennent la clé des conflits en Afrique.
Vous pouvez également exercer votre influence sur les facteurs d’origine humaine qui contribuent aux événements naturels tels que les sécheresses, les tempêtes, les tremblements de terre, les incendies de forêt et autres événements géophysiques. Ces événements continuent de provoquer des déplacements en Afrique.
En raison des impacts de ces événements, les PDA qui portent le poids de ces crises ou événements ont besoin de votre influence positive pour mettre fin à leurs souffrances.
• • Ce que votre influence positive peut leur apporter
Votre influence positive peut aider à
√ Soutenir le plan de réponse humanitaire pour les PDA
√ Mettre fin aux violations et aux atteintes aux droits de l’homme et au droit international humanitaire
√ Encourager le retour des personnes déplacées
√ Mettre fin à la violence sexiste (par exemple, la violence à l’égard des jeunes filles) parmi les PDA
√ Améliorer la mise en œuvre des interventions qui sauvent des vies
√ Brièvement, alléger les souffrances des PDA vulnérables.
• • À qui votre influence positive profitera-t-elle?
Les bénéficiaires de votre Influence Positive ou de votre Don d’Influence seront
√ Ceux ou celles qui portent le poids de ces conflits et catastrophes naturelles qui se poursuivent
√ Les personnes qui subissent les effets mortels de la violence et de l’insécurité
√ Ceux ou celles qui n’ont pas ou ont un accès limité aux services de base tels que l’eau, l’assainissement et l’hygiène
√ Les personnes victimes de violence sexiste telles que les jeunes filles
√ Ceux ou celles qui souffrent d’une vulnérabilité accrue et d’une érosion des moyens de subsistance
√ En bref, les PDA en raison de l’insécurité et des menaces qui pèsent sur leur vie.
Vous pouvez faire don de votre influence positive pour réduire la pauvreté en Afrique où les déplacements se produisent à cause des conflits et des catastrophes naturelles.
Pour faire un don, veuillez contacter des personnes influentes (ou celles qui ont les clés) pour réduire ou résoudre les effets mortels de la crise de déplacement continue dont souffrent les pays africains et faire en sorte que ces personnes influentes réduisent ou mettent fin à ces effets néfastes sur elles.
Vous pouvez également influencer les choses ou les facteurs qui jouent dans la continuité de cette crise de déplacement afin de créer durablement des conditions favorables à un retour à la vie normale.
Veuillez également informer le CENFACS de votre travail d’influence ou de votre contribution que vous apportez ou apporterez et de ses résultats au nom du peuple Africain.
Pour nous le faire savoir, vous pouvez contacter le CENFACS comme suit:
*par téléphone
*par e-mail
*par texte
*en remplissant le formulaire de contact sur ce site.
Dès réception du résultat de votre don d’influence, le CENFACS vous contactera pour enregistrement et vous remerciera pour tout don d’influence effectué. Cependant, si vous souhaitez que votre soutien d’influence reste anonyme; nous respecterons votre souhait.
Merci d’avance pour votre volonté d’exercer votre influence positive afin d’alléger les souffrances auxquelles les PDA sont confrontés en raison de la crise continue des déplacements.
Main Development
• Basic Trading Skills Development Project (or Trading Skills Project)
The following items provide the key information about Trading Skills Project:
σ Definition of Trading Skills Project
σ The Aim of Trading Skills Project
σ Potential Beneficiaries of Trading Skills Project
σ Types of Trading Skills to Be Developed
σ Planned Outcomes
σ Indicators for Measuring Trading Skills Project
σ Funding Status of Trading Skills Project
σ Impact Monitoring and Evaluation.
Let us summarise each of these items.
• • Definition of Trading Skills Project
Trading Skills Project is an initiative that will help to reduce poverty by providing new skills or reskilling or skilling up those who are looking forward to trade to make ends meet or to improve their enterprising model in the African context.
Trading Skills Project is a model of working together with local people and/or their representatives in order to reach out to those who are uneducated or less educated, uninformed or less informed and lacking skills as far as trading is concerned.
Trading Skills Project will identify life-changing steps that its beneficiaries will go through. Through training and skills development to be provided from this micro-project, it is hoped that beneficiaries will improve their trading skills, knowledge and wellbeing. They will also enhance their means of living and enterprise so that they can increase the way they contribute in their community or society.
• • The Aim of Trading Skills Project
Trading Skills Project aims at reducing poverty and hardships in Africa, poverty due to the lack of basic skills to confidently and consistently trade. This reduction of poverty as the lack of essential trading skills will be done through training, education and basic supply of trading technologies and tools to potential project beneficiaries.
• • Potential Beneficiaries of Trading Skills Project
Amongst the types of people in need who could benefit from Trading Skills Project as defined above are:
√ those looking to enter the field of trading or expand their skillset
√ those who would like to feed their families through trade
√ those wanting to make ends meet or reduce poverty via trading
√ those seeking trading skills to reduce poverty
√ those who see trading as a potential way of reducing conflicts that adversely affect poor people
√ project beneficiaries engaged or planning to trade
√ those looking for a formal technical and vocational education and training in trading skills development
etc.
• • Types of Trading Skills to Be Developed
Basic training and education in the field of trade can enhance beneficiaries’ interpersonal skills. There are several ways or skills through which one can become a professional trader in their field.
Amongst the skills are those listed by ‘cleartax.in’ (11), which Trading Skills Project will provide. These skills are
a) research and analytical skills
b) concentration skills
c) self-control skills
d) error-free record-keeping skills.
To the above-mentioned skills, we can add the 8 skills required for trading given by ‘blog.bettertrader.co’ (12), which are:
1) minimally understanding some basic maths
2) fundamental and financial analyst skills
3) focus
4) research
5) record keeping
6) adaptability
7) mental toughness
8) independence.
However, the same ‘blog.cleartax.in’ explains that
“The ability to learn these attributes and skills attests to the fact that successful trading is in your hands and is not determined by your genes”.
Through the learning of the above-mentioned skills, we hope to identify changes that project beneficiaries will go through.
• • Planned Outcomes
After the implementation of Trading Skills Project, it is expected that there will be changes and effects. These changes and effects will be directly linked project users and others relating to their community.
• • • Outcomes in project users
After using the Trading Skills Project, users will:
√ feel more secure and stable in earnings some income to make ends meet
√ have the potential for entrepreneurship
√ develop the strengths for wealth creation opportunity
√ be able to reduce poverty and hardship as a lack of trading skills
√ have the opportunity to learn transferable skills to adapt to and embrace new opportunities
√ improve their ability to perform trading tasks
√ ameliorate their participation to trade negotiations
√ increase their ability to deal with questions linked to trading matter
√ be in a position to diversify their trading model
√ enhance their trading capacity and capability
√ refine their trading skills if they are women
etc.
Briefly, users will have a better opportunity to run their trading lives and improve their personal/family wellbeing.
• • • Outcomes in the community
The results for the community they belong to could be as follows:
√ making tangible impact on the community
√ contributing to the overall wellbeing of the community
√ supporting the community
√ building a better world for future generations.
• • Indicators for Measuring Trading Skills Project
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 embrace trade to reduce poverty
√ the number of poor people who will be educated and informed in trading matters as well as becoming competent in handling trading matters and technologies
√ the number of people who become less vulnerable to poverty as a lack of trading skills after having trading capacity building support
√ the performance and the confidence amongst project beneficiaries in handling trading matters or issues
√ the number of surveyed poor people who are happy (optimistic) or unhappy (pessimistic) to the support provided or offered to them via Trading Skills Project
etc.
To conclude, Trading Skills Project is an initiative that will help to reduce poverty by providing new skills or reskilling or skilling up those who are looking forward to trade to make ends meet or to improve their enterprising model in the African context.
The skills, knowledge and capacities to be acquired will help the project beneficiaries to understand the world of trading, make informed choices regarding their own trading wellbeing and improve trading risk management insights for themselves.
• • Funding Status of Trading Skills Project
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 the overall objectives it was set up. This is to say that both outcome and impact 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 the Trading Skills Project; please contact CENFACS.
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• References
(1) https://mytradingskills.com/about (accessed in May 2024)
(2) https://www.betterup.com/blog/how-to-connect-with-people (accessed in May 2024)
(3) https://www.berkeleywellbeing.com/building-connections.html (accessed in May 2024),
(4) madlymused.com/creating-systems/ (accessed in May 2024)
(5) https://api.internal-displacement.org/sites/default/files/publications/documents/IDMC-GRID-2024-Global-Report-on-International-Displacement.pdf (accessed in May 2024)
(6) https://www.cbd.int/article/cop15-press-release-final-19dec2022 (Accessed in May 2023)
(7) https://www.cifor-icraf.org/publications/pdf_files/factsheet/4258-factssheet.pdf (accessed in May 2024)
(8) https://www.cbd.int/abs/infokit/brochure-en.pdf (accessed in May 2024)
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