Our Activities / Services
JDF strives to link all stakeholders and donors (nationally and internationally) with local communities as well as supporting government socio-economic initiatives to responds to community aspirations, priorities and local needs. Towards this end, JDF activities include the following:
- Designing and implementing community-led socio –economic projects and initiatives.
- Assist central and local government to work with local and marginalized community at the District, Shehia and Village level.
- To develop strategies and design local driven initiatives that can support livelihoods while respecting government policies, rules of law, environment and community believes and culture.
- To assist community members to carry out monitoring, evaluation and share lesson learnt from our activities.
- Raise community awareness to coastal and marine resources and develop skills and capacity to manage the said resources communally.
- Jointly design and implement community-based natural resources and advocacy for resources mobilization and management.
- Capacity building for community members, both individually and corporate; in areas of management and operations, as well as enabling entrepreneurs and community development activists to identify available opportunities so as to get maximum benefits there from, and overcome the challenges inherent to them.
- Promote community philanthropy for socio economic development.
- Conduct evidence based thematic researches that inform JDF program development and implementation.