Development Aid Support Mechanism

The internet and its applications provide a wide range of benefits to everyone. But it also requires specific basic skills and knowledge to use different internet devices effectively in order to improve one’s personal and professional development. More precisely, it means that without these skills and knowledge individuals are not in a position to do research (e.g. looking for a job), send out emails, get connected with people, or receive online information about how to set up your own business.

We, Knowledge for Development Without Borders (K4DWB), believe that in the 21st century, human sustainable development inevitably requires open access to information, communication and technology (ICT) consistent to the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Therefore, K4DWB supports local, marginalized and underprivileged communities in often forgotten places with fitted ICT skills and tools to deal with their daily challenges on a personal and professional level.

More specifically, we are focused to equip students, graduates, young girls, women, and adults in need with ICT skills adjusted to their needs. These skills can be used to research for job advertisements, free online courses, health issues, legal consulting, women’s rights, climate change topics, local institutional addresses, and many other resources in accordance to the SDGs. Additionally, we help people to set up their own businesses and keep them updated with new technological trends.

Feel free to receive more information about the benefits of our training or by reading our ongoing training reports.The agenda of the programed skills for development trainings can be viewed or downloaded here

Our official website: http://www.knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org/

The internet and its applications provide a wide range of benefits to everyone.
Feel free to receive more information about the benefits of our training here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8JLU7rlf29tNjJfa2NVNlk4SVE/view

KFDWB believes strongly that skills for development is the best solution for youth unemployment, jobs creation, economic & illegal immigration, and worth social development worldwide. Read more here

You can view our training reportings here

Our official website: here

ICT and internet can provide a wide range of benefits to users. That requires specific skills and knowledge. People who lack ICT skills, knowledge and understanding are limited in reaching out opportunities: jobs, business development and management, information  sharing, SDGs, online courses, issues of health, legal, women's rights, climate change, peace, institutions, companies etc.  – Read morehere

We have had a wonderful experience in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and are providing others. Training description and curriculum can be fund here,french version here. Downloaded training report here

Our business strategy at this stage is to make the training (read here) one day happen in each country to be spread across Africa and worldwide.

Our official website: here  Aproach & program: here Facebook page:  here  Twitter page:  here

Did you hear that there are over 3 million people not in employment, education or training (NEETS) in South Africa, etc (see: comment). KFDWB is looking for potential business partnerships, funders,  sponsors, investors  to provide high level quality development Training program and practices in the local language and official language on a cloud platform within it development  support framework. The project   is called the "Chance is Everywhere". The project aims to providing development Training program and practices in the local language and official language on a  cloud platform for  the mass unemployed people, fresh graduated, disabilities people,  students and other people across Sub-saharan African Countries (e.g. 1500 trained people per year).

After completing the online training program they will engage then on the field mentorship step which consists to assist them  to intend  practices in vocational training centres, or  to deliver face to face trainings, seminars, workshops, researches or documentations at their local communities/districts on how they can organize themselves to alleviate locally the issues related to the training topic or escalated the issues by the local official representative or recorded the issues in a coordinated central database to find a sustainable solution in their respective communities.

The training package is more focused on income generating activities, job skills update, and the access to the job on the labor market (i.e. agriculture and rural development, production, building and construction, health care, child care,  leadership, workplace technology, environmental technology,  social Entrepreneurship, Understanding the SDGs to measure and address development outcomes,  ICT, Sale, Construction (e.g. bricklaying, carpentry and joinery, plumbing, electrical installation, welding and fabrication), Small engine mechanics and other income generating activities related training.). 

In addition, Mentors accompany the trained people to start their own small business. As result of the knowledge and skills they acquire from the training, they can serve as a role model to income generating activties development in their district. The training is driven by local industry needs and entrepreneurship they are expected to be.

The training  includes the following steps:

1.) Assessment & recruitment
2.) Online training
3.) Practices training in a vocational training center (it depends on the training topics)
4.) Coaching/Assistance by an experienced Mentor/Trainer to the participants to get a job or start their own small business.
5.) An available interconnection platform (StayConnecteD4Dev) where participants or non-participants will access to the training materials,  exchange about jobs opportunity, about how to start own small business and
share development issues and best practices that they are experienced  in their local community.                 

The Training will also focus on girl child education, educate girls on leadership, and how to be assertive, boost their self-esteem, make decisions and provide constructive criticism.

The training will give them the skills to negotiate with male counterparts and encourage them on women leadership career positively. In addition, the training  will also tackle the issues of youth illegal immigration in Sub-Saharan African countries. KFDWB believes that the chance is everywhere, and Young people can get a good life in their home countries if they really want, and engage.

The documentation of our ongoing trainings can be viewed or downloaded here.

Please visit our official website: http://www.knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org/

Our framework aims to help communities to function more effectively and efficiently in dealing with development challenges. The framework consist of 3 areas:

1. People: who are involved in community development (local managers, active volunteers and community members)

2. Platform: an online space for capacity building, interactions and knowledge sharing

3. Program: covers offline activities such as workshops, trainings and events

OUR PROGRAM

We have created the Development Aid Support Mechanism which consists of the new online StayConnecteD4Dev cloud platform, and offline Field Development Support in order to empower our members, our active volunteers and local communities, help them to establish their own initiatives, to create income generating activities, to access to a job, to engage in education, health, public awareness campaigns, and government programs.

Online learning and interaction between our members and our active volunteers contributes to their capacity building, engagement and provides them with information on development issues, sustainable development practices, and lessons learned. Active volunteers benefit from the online cloud platform in their work under the offline Field Development Support network, which consists of door-to-door engagements, awareness campaigns and interviews between them and local communities not connected to the cloud platform.

Our proposed interventions are based on the premise that communities are motivated and act on their own initiative, and that they have the capacity to change themselves. Mentors motivate and coach these communities to understand and to take action through an approach that appreciates their motivations and strengths, and which fosters local ownership.  To this end, we apply Pivotal Response Training (PRT) approaches embedded in our Development Aid Support Mechanism.

Mentors accompany a community according to the guidelines of the Development Aid Support Mechanism through an approach that is termed CME² (Coach, Motivate, Educate and Engage). CME² employs motivation training and facilitated conversations to elicit community strengths, increase self-motivation, self-awareness, and stimulate self-confidence and action. Our mission is to facilitate sustainable human development processes through which communities are motivated to understand, plan, set and achieve their personal and common Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Visit our official website: http://www.knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org

On the link below you will find our ever growing data collection  that KFDWB has received from volunteers around the world for action or intervention.  A summary of all  the data (currently on an update) that have been received by KFDWB via  our global  data collection database are shown in the table below per country. 

Please visit:  Field Based Data| http://www.knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org/field-based-data/

These information can help donors to better  understand, identify common global, local issues, and in their early diagnostics for intervention. (e.g.  currently data exploration)

We have created the Development Aid Support Mechanism, which consists of the new online StayConnecteD4Dev cloud platform developed, and offline Field Development Support in order to empower our members, our active volunteers and local communities, help them to establish their own initiatives to engage in education, health, public awareness campaigns, and government programs.

StayConnecteD4Dev: Community Learning Center is a cloud-based solution to promote education, measurement of impacts, advocacy skills, capacity building focused on knowledge of the SDGs, social empowerment and development worldwide. It seeks to host, manage, share, and disseminate relevant knowledge in the local and official education languages of the communities using our platform, and to facilitate Entrepreneurship and SME Management Training, job skills training, connections and networking between individuals and groups dedicated to sustainable development.

With the support of our Field Development Support program (see our approach & program),  our cloud platform seeks to offer specific development Training program and practices (career-focused, and occupational trainings) for unemployed, females, vulnerable groups, fresh graduated students and other people in the  field of  agriculture and rural development, production, building and construction, health care, child care, leadership, workplace technology, environmental technology, social Entrepreneurship, Understanding the SDGs to measure and address development outcomes, ICT, Sale, Construction (e.g. bricklaying, carpentry and joinery, plumbing, electrical installation, welding and fabrication), Small engine mechanics and other income generating activities related training. We are expected to train 1500 people per year. The job placement is expected to 95%  and 55%  more productive and competitive in the labor market than the others because the training is driven by local industry needs and entrepreneurship they are expected to be.

The StayConnecteD4Dev supports field based ongoing development project efficiently and effectively, and the collecting of information on local development issues and best practices. The StayConnecteD4Dev helps also to eliminate a paper-based system and support processes while providing timely information to project stakeholders.

Our StayConnecteD4Dev, a Social synchronized network platform, helps our volunteers and participants to improve knowledge sharing, decision-making, innovation and to engage in the exercise of the theory of change

See more at: approach and program

We are happy to announce our new website  is online and ready to be explored!  You can find our Approach and Program here

A number of development experts have dedicated their careers to fight against poverty. To date, interventions tackling poverty have been informed by disciplines including, actions, climate change, public health, employment, migration, ICT, human rights, social justice just to name a few.

These approaches have generated a number of more or less effective interventions. Notwithstanding the progress made so far, poverty remains a psychological and chronic social problem in certain regions of the planet. Further progress, particularly in the area of extreme poverty eradication, will require more than simply reapplying successful interventions.

This might, in part reflect the fact that many interventions in the area of development are built on and informed by the same set of approaches. Bringing a multi- approached lenses that would incorporate insights from currently under-utilized approaches in the development interventions, could therefore facilitate the process of designing original and effective solutions.

For example, applying hybrid tools derived from social behaviors and attitudes, could improve the effectiveness of poverty reduction programs.

Enriching extreme poverty eradication strategies with findings from social, cultural and economic researches would enable development stakeholders to address multiple barriers in extreme poverty eradication.

Understanding the social behaviors and attitudes in communities with high extreme poverty could enhance community-level interventions. Bringing insights from fields not commonly seen in the development arena may enable unexpected approaches which, paired with vigorous evaluation, could help reduce and eradicate poverty.

“The traditional (modernistic) considerations of solutions to poverty consisted of the rooting out of the causes of poverty. Bringing about development through introducing technology and proper education would gradually cause poverty to disappear. By taking the correct measures poverty will be eradicated. The results of these measures were however not considered. Hershock (n.d.:34) is convinced that when development does not alleviate poverty, it will definitely create an environment conducive to poverty and lead to the institutionalisation of poverty. Poverty will persist as the inability to meet one’s own needs (Hershock n.d:36)”.[Source]

By providing relevant information and knowledge (rooting out poverty causes), and by using modern ICT technologies and collaborative learning approach, we will help the most vulnerable ones to develop their skills to cope with their own development challenges, to make healthier decisions and to manage their daily social challenges in more effective ways.

 Support Framework Approach

We  aim to create long-term impacts on communities’ empowerment to tackle down development challenges. We are seeking to take advantage on an innovative hybrid approach based on Pivotal Response Training processes and cloud technology to design and implement our development interventions in copying with the SDGs.

Schema 1. Development Aid Support Mechanism rationale

The poor or the marginalized societies who are living under extreme poverty appear marginalized by the social system and poorly motivated to respond to development challenges they are facing , and to engage in the social development activities around them. The schema above describes the interaction between the StayConneD4Dev cloud platform and the Field development support as following: Our users are motivated and educated on development matters through our community Learning Centre (StayConnecteD4Dev)  a cloud based learning platform. They become active volunteers.                                                                                                                                                      

Schema 2. StayConnecteD4Dev overview

Under the guidance and mentoring of our regional or local volunteer manager, active volunteers reach their respective local communities, particularly, the most vulnerable (people in rural villages, in peri-urban settings, youth groups, illiterate and semi-illiterate communities) to educate them on the local problems (the root causes) they are facing to know or understand which human development challenges they are facing, and on how they can try to resolve firstly these challenges locally.

Active volunteers help communities to collect data or information about their problems, challenges, frustrations, etc. they live with. We are implementing  development cases studies  from the collected data and information which can help donors to identify local, global common issues, and in their early diagnostics for intervention.

The Pivotal Response Training contends that behaviour hinges on behavioural skills—motivation and the ability to respond to multiple cues—and that development of these skills will result in collateral behavioural improvements. In 2005, Richard Simpson of the University of Kansas identified Pivotal Response Treatment as one of the four scientifically based treatments for “autism”.

Motivation to respond to social and environmental cues is fundamental to development and a critical area of intervention (R. L. Koegel, Dyer, & Bell, 1987). The approach is a comprehensive service delivery model which will explore the interests of the most vulnerable as a natural motivator to engage them in the end goal of decreasing the frequency and prevalence of daily extreme poverty causes.

The name pivotal response emphasizes the importance of targeting area of development that will lead to collateral changes in other areas of functioning or responding. Working with people who are marginalized by the social system presents Development & Aid Workers with a number of challenges that extend beyond fundamental principles such as prevention, empowerment, and participation.

The pivotal response interventions that emphasize associations between social communicative responses and direct positive consequences lead to increased motivation, enhanced learning, more rapid acquisition of target behaviors, and less avoidance behavior (L. K. Koegel & Koegel, 1995; R. L. Koegel, Carter, & Koegel, 1998).

In my recent sample paper on Creating decentralized knowledge management and transfer culture for development I spoke about "Knowledge Package for Development". In this actual paper I would like to explain what is this „Knowledge Package for Development" and how we can produce and distribute the right Knowledge Package for Development with its right  format. 

A Knowledge Package for Development is a cross-functional knowledge package within we could distinguish the "business knowledge package" as the "Output" and the

"knowledge for development package" as the "Outcome". These packages are “Dynamic Packages” and may be fit for the target sustainable development purpose. Once produced, these packages must be updated on a regular basis. Each knowledge package for development has its own characteristics and it may vary from development sector to another. 

The knowledge package for development must be produced through a precise knowledge package business case. This package must be continuous updated through the right sociocultural infrastructures according to the local communities’ knowledge requirement and environment.Typically, failed knowledge management for development initiatives are focused on business knowledge management, knowledge management tools and learning systems while neglecting the other sociocultural aspects of knowledge management. 

One major influence to the practical knowledge for development package is the issue of reciprocity. This refers to the individuals and collectives knowledge sharing needs. Knowledge for development package is essentially about getting the right knowledge packages format with the right knowledge infrastructure to the right communities at the right time and at the right place. This knowledge package in itself may not seem so complex.

During this process all parties are working together with consensus to find the right knowledge package and its infrastructures. The knowledge providers and the knowledge consumers must interact and exchange knowledge in the pursuit of finding, sharing a collective knowledge package.The collaboration and participation processes act as the foundation of producing and distributing quickly the right knowledge package for development format at the right time and at the right place.Knowledge consumers and knowledge producers interact, discuss, analyze, share and form relationships in order to find the right knowledge package format and infrastructures to better the lives and the developments of the target community.

Please download the concept behind  our organization KFDWB on the link below:

Concept Behind KFDWB

On the  link below you will find a presentation of the concept behind the development aid support offered by Knowledge For Development Without Borders:

http://www.knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org/presentation/

Please visit our official website: http://www.knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org

Knowledge for Development without Borders (KFDWB) is an NGO, based in Vienna, Austria, whose mission is to identify current development issues and development best practices on the ground and to make this knowledge available to development organizations and local and national responsible bodies in order to highlight and alleviate the problems at a community level.

Our development aid support project is a way for local communities, volunteers and Aid Workers to make their joint work accessible to a wider audience. The community is made up of volunteers and Aid workers interested in letting the world and our audience knows of the human development situation on the ground, and the best local approaches.

Our over growing volunteers across the globe

In three months of operation we have attracted more than 300 volunteers via our Development Aid Support - KFDWB Volunteer Membership Form (Please visit link on: http://www.knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org). Anyone can become a volunteer. A volunteer is a person who can let us know of the situation on the ground. We will work directly with you and help solve the problems that you or your community is facing. We do this by interfacing on your behalf with local governments and international aid organizations about your situation and your request for financial and technical support.

Development Aid Support received and case study

In three months of operation we have received about 190 requests for development support via our Development Aid Support - KFDWB Request Tool (visit link on: http://www.knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org/2019/02/06/aid-supp...). Our organization gives the chance to young academics, Aid development workers, people who are

interested in human development problem as well as people who are interested in working in the development arena to work in the field to help the local communities know and understand which human development challenges they are facing. The Development Aid Support requests we receive are compiled into “Development Case Study” (DCS) - (Please visit link on:

http://www.knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org/2019/02/06/aid-supp...). The DCS includes, but is not limited to the following: a review of all previous relevant local, national and international reports, knowledge of previous and/or current donor funding and their objectives, the actual situation on the ground with respect to funding, testimonials from local community members, media reports, and photographic and/or video material/clips evidence. Where possible KFDWB are able to provide a basic costed solution for the remediation of the community problem.

Our  project on Capacity4dev.eu knowledge sharing platform

 Anyone can become a volunteer. Our organisation gives the chance to young academics, Aid development workers, people who are interested in human development problem as well as people who are interested in working in the development arena to work in the field to help the local communities know and understand which human development challenges they are facing. You can raise a ticket about their problems, challenges, frustrations that they live with every day of their current existence via our availableDevelopment Aid Support - Request Form. 

At the same time our organisation gives the chance to our volunteers worldwide, particularly volunteers who want to start a career in the development arena, and/or want to promote their career in development arena to make their efforts in the field accessible to a wider development audience via our our ongoing Development Aid Support Mechanism Project on Capacity4dev.eu knowledge sharing platform. They can do this by signing in http://capacity4dev.ec.europa.eu/home, joining public groups, uploading photos, videos, papers etc., start discussions or join other public discussions groups to let the group’s members know about their experience with the community on the ground. In addition we ask volunteers to share this website in their social networks in order to help others around the world to identify their development issues and/or development best practices on the ground.

Les cybercriminels sont de plus en plus nombreux et puissants. Ils exploitent toutes les avancées technologiques. Leurs techniques et méthodes sont de plus en plus sophistiquées et difficiles à contrer. Parfois on a l´impression que ces délits sont favorisés par les grandes industries de ce domaine qui développent des outils malfaisants et mettent des solutions sur place pour se faire enrichir.

Prévenir vaux mieux que guérir

Les pays en voie de développement sont en fait les premiers victimes… Les efforts en matière de sécurité de l’information montrent que le niveau de maturité des entreprises en matière de cyber sécurité est en progrès, mais qu’il reste encore trop faible pour la plupart d’entre elles, et surtout, dans les pays en voie de développement...

La lutte contre la cybercriminalité, et surtout,  au sein des pays en voie de développement est non seulement une question de lois, de réglementation et de mesures de sécurité, mais aussi une question de culture et de civilisation.

Pour mieux combattre cette criminalité croissante, if faut bien comprendre les premières raisons qui animent ces criminels. Ces raisons sont souvent diverses et parfois naïves. Voici quelques exemples:

L´Internet comme outil de vengeance

Chômeurs pour l´infini, se sentant toujours isolés, sans aides sociales, et sans aucun avenir, devant et derrière eux, certaines jeunes des pays en voie développement se servent des réseaux web comme outil de vengeance. Certains pensent toujours que c´est la colonisation ou l´occident qui demeure l’origine de leur mal grandissant et chronique. Un jeune qui, à partir de là, n'a plus qu'une seule idée en tête: se venger.

L´absence d´une plateforme cordonnée

L´absence d´une Plateforme cordonnée, comme outil d´information et du savoir, qui donne la chance aux jeunes de soumettre publiquement leurs  besoins sociaux , économiques, culturels, environnementaux et politiques  y compris de leurs communautés, et surtout, des échanges d´idées sur les bonnes pratiques de l´internet permettant d´améliorer leur propre vie quotidienne, et celle de leur communauté respective,  crée un lien vide entre les bonne pratiques des réseaux web et le développement local durable.

«In third-world countries, youth radicalization stems from poverty to a lack of education to brainwashing by so-called Islamic “scholars.” However, in the West radicalization is most common among those who come from insecure backgrounds and lack positive support at home to channel their frustrations»  [Tahir said]

L´ambition de la recherche de l’âme sœur

Plus 60% des enfants et adolescents en Afrique discutent chaque jour sur des sites de "chat". La plupart des enfants se disent prêts à échanger des informations personnelles sur eux-mêmes et sur leurs familles contres de biens et des services. Outre cette exploitation naïve, les dangers auxquels ces enfants sont exposés sur la toile sont nombreux.

«À la recherche de « l’âme sœur » ou d’une gloire électronique, dès que les jeunes se connectent à Internet, ils sont quasiment « déconnectés » et cela dure des heures et des « nuits blanches » même. Alors que les maux du net sont multiples, ils se voient entraînés, d’une manière volontaire ou involontaire, dans certains jeux sans scrupules qui passent parfois pour des délits et qui peuvent ainsi leur coûter leur liberté sinon toute leur vie» [Aboussi2006]

La gloire électronique et l´innocence des jeunes

Plusieurs jeunes s’amusent et abusent à mettre online les photos des filles. Ils créent facilement des comptes sur over-blog ou skyblog qui ne désactivent ces sites non conformes à la charte qu’après des semaines, soit le temps suffisant pour les découvrir et les visionner. Ces jeunes généralement ignorent souvent les dangers auxquels ils sont exposés

«L’affaire des sites pornographiques révélée en novembre par le quotidien « Assabah » mérite notre méditation. Ces sites mis en ligne par un « inconnu » auraient inclus des photos nues de jeunes élèves de la ville d’Eljadida, avec des commentaires déplacés, des renseignements permettant de reconnaître leurs identités et même une description qui propose leurs services. Cet inconnu se venge-t-il en essayant de dénigrer ces jeunes ? Le mystère s’est installé, mais les circonstances spectaculaires de l’incident n’ont pas à occulter l’esprit de synthèse : poussons notre intelligence plus loin et enquêtons, car il s’agit bel et bien d’un crime.» [Aboussi2006, URL]

L’excès d’ambition des jeunes

 Les jeunes africains sont souvent attirés par les services et les infrastructures des nouvelles technologies de l´information et de la télécommunication qu’offre le monde numérique. Apparemment, les jeunes aspirent souvent à réussir et à devenir de grands informaticiens. Pour se faire et faute de moyens, les uns misent sur les informations qu´ils reçoivent sur l’Internet comme online Learning. Ils travaillent innocemment sur des sources codes qui sont mises á leur portée ou ils téléchargent et jouent avec des tools cracker.

« (…) C’est donc un motif narcissique qui déclenche chez certains jeunes le désire de créer une gloire électronique, avec le manque de conscience et l’excès d’ambition, les choses peuvent mal tourner! C’est l’histoire du jeune adolescent marocain accusé d’avoir collaboré à la conception du virus Zotob qui s’était attaqué aux sites Web des firmes internationales, soit des médias de taille aux Etats-Unis comme les chaînes de télévision CNN, ABC news, le journal New York Times ou encore la société Capital Hill.  L’affaire inédite qui avait secoué la chronique judiciaire et suscité beaucoup d’intérêt de la part de l’opinion publique, n’est que le cas d’un jeune hacker chez qui le besoin de l’affirmation de soi est abondant et qui a été peut-être exploité par son complice turc présumé : « participer à la conception du virus et recevoir en contrepartie des codes pour forcer des cartes de crédit de porteurs de différents pays». Le gain matériel est ici présent, tout comme l’orgueil et l’excès de confiance, car le monde sombre du piratage est peut-être difficile à cerner, mais il ne faut jamais croire qu’il est impossible de détecter les délits d’un hacker si doué et si futé qu’il puisse être (…)» [Aboussi2006, URL]

La pauvreté et l´ambition d´être riche

«L’ambition dont on n’a pas le talent est un crime», disait Chateaubriand dans son livre, «Mémoire d’outre-tombe». Faute des moyens, l´ambition d´être riche oblige certains jeunes de se livrer aux activités criminelles les plus simples comme des crimes sur l´Internet.

Le chômage grandissant

 De plus en plus d’informaticiens et d´autres jeunes sans emploi s’équipent de trousse à outils du cybercriminel, crimeware toolkit.

Une mauvaise organisation du personnage des Cybercafés

La non maîtrise des infrastructures des nouvelles technologies de l´information et de la communication empêche les personnages des centres des cybercafés de ne pas maîtriser les réseaux de leurs propres infrastructures. De plus on peut noter, l´absence de sensibilisations des parents dont les fils et filles passent toute leur journée dans des cybercafés.

Comment réagir face á cette violence?

La lutte contre les abus de l´internet est non seulement une question de mesures de sécurité et de lois. La meilleure prévention consiste à empêcher les gens (innocents et coupables) de se lancer dans un extrémiste abusif sur le web, en premier lieu, ou pour les convaincre de se détourner de ces idées et méthodes. L´éducation sur l´éthique du web devient ainsi un impératif quotidien.

Ainsi, cette tâche ne peut pas être laissée à un petit nombre d'autorités locales, et acteurs à traiter. C´est une tâche qui demande un travail quotidien d´éducation, d´échanges des idées, de sensibilisation, et de mobilisations de fond sur une plateforme, et sur le terrain.

D´ailleurs, la nature du phénomène nécessite de travailler avec un large éventail de partenaires privés, publiques, aussi bien qu´avec les innocents et coupables,  surout,  les jeunes  pour acquérir une meilleure compréhension des comportements de ses malfaiteurs sur le terrain, et des tactiques, et pour atténuer ou prévenir cette activité.

Les contributions de K4DWB dans cette lutte

La lutte contre les abus de l´internet est une lutte commune. Une lutte de tout le monde. L´organisation non gouvernementale K4DWB pense que les personnes les mieux placées pour lutter contre le phénomène sont les personnes (parents, amis, éducateurs, des organisations de soutien au développement durable local etc.) qui travaillent sur le terrain pour faire comprendre aux innocents et coupables comment les réseaux sociaux peuvent contribuer au développement économique, social, culturel, environnemental, et politique de leur communauté si ces réseaux sont bien utilisés.

De plus, il faut reporter des problèmes de cybercriminalités, et du développement sur le terrain á travers une plateforme accessible 24x24  pour tout le monde pour tirer l´attention des industries de web et agences de développement.

À travers ses expériences et ses  réseaux de volontaires, le ONG K4DWB dispose d´une connaissance approfondie du terrain sur la façon de traiter cette question d ´une grande importance morale et culturelle. Cette une question qui nécessite une sensibilisation quotidienne offline et on-line des jeunes.

Afin de contribuer, et surtout, d´aider les praticiens de premières lignes locales, et de faciliter l'échange d'expériences et de bonnes pratiques entre eux, K4DWB va mettre sur place un espace virtuel et physique bien sécurisé d´interaction, d´échanges sur les mauvaises et les bonnes pratiques des réseaux Web,  aussi bien d´engager nos volontaires de tous les coins  dans l'examen des questions relatives au développement, que ce soit le changement climatique, le terrorisme, l´immigration illégale,  la pauvreté ou d´autres questions qui les concernent ou qui consernent d'autres personnes à travers le monde.

Ensuite, l´espace servira de  multiplier des programmes, d´educations,  de sensibilisations sur des questions relatives au développement,  sur les bonnes pratiques de l´ utilisation de l´internet par le biais de son programme Field Operations Program and Support

*C´est pourquoi K4DWB fait appel á un soutien financier, et á un partenariat  avec les  organisations interessées pour l´établissement commun de  cette plateforme. Merci bien*.

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Cet text  est extrait et adapté du livre Amouzou BEDI (Autor). Un livre qui m´a permis d´analyser et de faire comprendre á tout le monde les raisons (le chômage, la vengeance, l´innocence des internautes, l´irresponsabilités des parents, le manque d´information, d´éducation et de cadre juridique, mauvaise organisation etc.) de cette galopante cybercriminalité en Afrique et les techniques de dupes et des pratiques mystiques (bonne frange de la jeunesse, photos des femmes, pratiques occultes, méthodes de «Broutage», arnaques, crime pour se chercher, crime comme signe de courage etc.) qu´utilisent ces malfaiteurs pour escroquer les autres. J´ai essayé de définir des démarches, des difficultés, des approches de solution, et des méthodologies propices à utiliser pour combattre la cybercriminalité en Afrique ou ailleurs sans négliger le rôle de l´éducation, le rôle de la famille, le rôle de la religion, le rôle de l´État, le rôle des ONG, le rôle de la communauté internationale etc.

Together we can make it happen!

See more at: http://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2015/Agenda/Session/265

UNESCO

It was really a great  and successfully conference (Fighting Radicalization and extremism)  with great ideas and great concepts. In the practice, we will contribute across our information collection mechanism, volunteer network, our online platform and offline development aid support mechanism.

Please find in the following pamphlet the way we are  thinking to contribute in ICT4D,  in the fight against youth  Radicalization,  Extremism, Cybercrime and Climate Change in line with the other social development issues.

We are very grateful to be part of this conference. It was fantastic. Thanks

It is really amazing the things we can achieve when we build an environment that allows for others to explore their abilities and create awareness about Development matters for self-affirmation, engagement and solidarity, involving them in meaningful activities to tackle local, regional and international development issues.

New aid model needed or world's poorest will wait a century for basics (Thomson Reuters Foundation).
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given the chance to understand, know and play it role in sustainable development. That's what we're doing. ~KFDWB

Together we can make it happen!

I have just called my "illiterate" mother some days ago, and asked  her if she has some information, knowledge via mobile phone, TV, internet, face to face discussion, friends or relations visit about the ongoing actions and efforts on SDGs. Unfortunately she said know.  I am certain that there are millions people like my mother who has no idea about the ongoing efforts on SDGs. (i have just called my illerate mother)

I think that there is a need to reach, to mobilize and engage the most vulnerable in the SDGs processes if we want really to achieve the world we want in 2030.

The poor people ( the most vulnerable groups) are ready to collaborate and to help

They just need the right assistances and guides to contribute right in matters that affect their lives. 

Good observation I think that should be one of the pillars of SDGs because looking back at the MDGs this to me seems one of the shortfall, it's not enough to just come and put a structure or signpost with the logo of MDG people should be better informed so they can support the drive, because people should be given the opportunity to contribute in matters that affect their lives, Mr Taye Lucas

See more at: http://capacity4dev.ec.europa.eu/aid-support 

We work to empower local Citizen to know, understand, secure and enforce their roles, responsibilities, and engagements for the success of the MDGs and SDGs. Our official website: http://www.knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org/ 

We see more global warming. Unfortunately, we could not solve all the problems of the world at the same time. But it is potential and useful to have  a simple, strong, and  independent global platform  called development Service Support like K4DWB which covers the social, economic, cultural and environmental challenges (http://www.knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org/2019/02/06/aid-supp...) of the people who are in needs for immediate or future actions so that they could not feel that they have been excluded or marginalized!

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given the chance to understand, know and play it role in sustainable development. That's what we're doing. ~KFDWB (http://www.knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org).

The mission of the KFDWB outlines a work progress war against the afflictions of poverty, famine, radicalisation, extremism and war. Our Development Aid Support Mechanism is part of this inventory.
 
In addition, our programme intensifies the communications in sharing good news stories of citizens acting in their communities and, most importantly, making social development goals simple and relevant every day, to everyone. Therefore, every single person wherever is given the voice to express the needs of it community via a coordinated central database.

Young people, students, community, and interested volunteers in this programme will receive new skills that will serve them well in marketing themselves; and have the opportunity to analyse and understand their own local development challenges and frustrations so that they could engage themselves in development arena to fix these social, economic, environmental, cultural and politic challenges immediately or in the future.
 

There are still many things need to be done, whatever the goals (SDGs) are, they require a good social Development Aid support mechanism to support them. The government may could be changed, but only with good social support mechanism, it is possible to have a sustainable development of our society.

So we are calling on interested parties from all backgrounds who can support, bring creativity, dedication, experience and talent to this program (see more at: http://forum.knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org/registration/), to support worldwide the ongoing efforts for the worth management of, and worth investment in the social, economic  and environmental well-being of our lovely planet.  

Resources

[1] http://capacity4dev.ec.europa.eu/aid-support/minisite/kfdwb%C2%B4s-field...
[2] http://capacity4dev.ec.europa.eu/aid-support/minisite/data-revolution-su...
[3] http://www.developmentaidsupport.org
[4] http://www.ngojobs.at/jobs/company/1044
[5] http://capacity4dev.ec.europa.eu/aid-support/
[6] http://www.scoop.it/t/developement-aid-support
[7] https://twitter.com/KFDWB
[8] http://amouzoubedi.blogspot.co.at/2014/02/why-i-support-design-of-global...
[9] http://us9.campaign-archive1.com/?u=ba9b2a5a4b9bf2076db9d483c&id=eb2651a7ae
 

Ethic&Dignity: New aid model needed or world's poorest will wait a century for basics (Thomson Reuters Foundation).
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given the chance to understand, know and play it role in sustainable development. That's what we're doing. ~KFDWB

Please helps us finding, connecting  and empowering the missing millions to sustainable development matters (issues and best practices). "Data are not just about measuring changes, they also facilitate and catalyse that change. Of course, good quality numbers will not change people’s lives in themselves. But to target the poorest systematically, to lift and keep them out of poverty, even the most willing governments cannot efficiently deliver services if they do not know who those people are, where they live and what they need. Nor do they know where their resources will have the greatest impact." from ODI

There are still many things need to be done, whatever the goals (SDGs)  are, they require a good social support mechanism to support them. The government may could be changed, but only with good social support mechanism, it is possible to have a sustainable development of our society.

Whatever the sustainable development politics and strategies would be  or  would be adopted, we have reached a sustainable development era where there is a need of suitable social mechanism support worldwide to connect a global audience to necessary resources while providing a system to translate these goals, data, information and knowledge into sustainable local best practices.

We cover development issues and best practices in line with the  SDGs. We are empowering local Citizens to know, understand, secure and enforce their roles, responsibilities, and engagements for the success of the SDGs. We are assisting the youths to identify their weakness and strength before any interventions and actions. We are collecting information on development issues, local best practices, and implementing development cases studies which can help donors to identify local, global common issues, and in their early diagnostics.

We build the efficiency of our project around a globally accessible database. This has the purpose of helping

ngos, development organizations, development research institutions, private sectors, banks and development funding agencies be able to use this information for helpful purposes such as to identify the most useful development processes. In addition, information is used to raise awareness with responsible bodies so that development issues are addressed.

So we are calling on interested parties from all backgrounds who can support, bring creativity, dedication, experience and talent to our developmnt aid support  mechanisn  program to contribute to the ongoing efforts  of development organizations, local governments, donors, foundations,  ONGs, private sectors to achieve the world we want.

Our official website:http://www.knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org/

We are connecting the Unconnected (people who do not have access to internet and/or development information) and Connected (people who have access to Internet and/or development information) to Development Matters (climate change, cybercrime, youth unemployment, youth violent extremism, terrorism, illegal migration, education, jobs,  gender equality and  citizens’ roles in SDGs etc.) for actions. In brief we cover development issues and best practices in line with the SDGs.

We are increasing public awareness. Our programme intensifies the communications in sharing challenges,  and, best practices development stories of citizens acting in their communities, and, most importantly, making social development goals simple and relevant every day, to development acteurs. It is really amazing...

the things we can achieve when we build an environment that allows for others to explore their abilities and create awareness aboutDevelopment matters for self-affirmation, engagement and solidarity, involving them in meaningful activities to tackle local, regional and international development issues.

Our Programme will not be successful without adequate support (financial support, infrastructures, Volunteers, Experts & Partners around the world). K4DWB needs adequate funding, collaboration and cooperation if it is to achieve the objectives that have been set. Much needs to be done to get funding…

Our official website: http://www.knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org/

Introduction

Knowledge has an important role to play in addressing development issues, but this requires access to information as well as the availability of relevant and useful knowledge. Knowledge is central to sustainable development. Knowledge is essential for survival and sustainability.

Our processes

Local volunteers are educated (Awareness is raised among communities about  SDGs. The volunteers’ capacity is strenghtend through trainings, seminars and workshops. In addition to that, volunteers might take part in projects and social networking events.

Local volunteers go into their community to note any issues (Being aware of the SDGs, local volunteers are able to raise awareness in the communities and a variety of stakeholders (ex. village elders, sub-county and county administrators, families, churches, institutions, charities, foundations, and volunteers).

Volunteers are able to point out and report problems and/or best practices, by raising a request for development aid or providing the first level support. Doing so:

We collect live data which we can proof and everybody can see and not fictive data or report data.

We assess the data and if possible we could reject the data or we recomend expert field visit for proof.
We build from the data our Development Case Studies (DCS).
We make  the Development Case Studies available to the party or universally accessible to all for actions.

Owning   Development Case Studies

Owning  our Development Case Studies mean all the above. Is anyone truly aware of how our development cases studies (DCS) regarding every aspect of sustainable Development issues and best practices?

Let's say a local government or party wants to begin a development operations in its country. Let's say this local government or party wants to understand deeply, and try to alleviate conditions due to poverty through education or access to information and knowledge.

The goals for the local government or party must match the means available to remedy the affliction i.e., socio cultural infrastructures, money, people and/or sciences. In order to make this match realistic an inventory (education, live information collection and the development of Development Case Studies) must be taken and all strengths and deficiencies identified.

The mission of the KFDWB outlines a work progress war against the afflictions of poverty, famine and war. Our Development Aid Support Mechanism is part of this inventory.

The developed Development Case Studies (DCS) are given back to the local governance or party and its officials for actions. If the local governance or party accepts we can make it universally accessible for all.

Advantages for a local government or party 

a.) What do we know?
b.) What do we have to respond (data, information, knowledge, resources, local vs. international intervention, cooperation, etc.)?
c.) What needs to be done?
d.) What needs to be tackled first?
e.) How, where and by whom?
f.) which best practices are available?
d.) Etc.

Our Development Case Studies (DCS) include  transferable inventory that was collected to sustain the resolutions in order to model, resource and deploy organization to agency creation and/or strengthening as part of local governance system of the host country. The development Case Studies enable the agency deployment strategy to measure remedy and report unfiltered outcomes.How it Works in Practice?

 A.) Local volunteers are educated

Awareness is raised among communities about  SDGs. The volunteers’ capacity is strengthened through trainings, seminars and workshops. In addition to that, volunteers might take part in projects and social networking events.

B.) Local volunteers go into their community to note any issues

Being aware of the  SDGs, local volunteers are able to raise awareness in the communities and a variety of stakeholders (ex. village elders, sub-county and county administrators, families, churches, institutions, charities, foundations, and volunteers.) Volunteers are able to point out and report problems, by raising a request for development aid.

 C.) We receive a request for development aid via website or mobile App

After KFDWB receives a request for development aid via website or mobile App, the NGO or individual who raised the request will be contacted for further information about the problem. As a result KFDWB is releases a case study that is reviewed by the community, relevant NGOs or local/national institutions. Case studies are of evidential relevance for donors who are ready to provide financial and/or technical support.

D.) We assess and release Development  Case studies (DCS)

KFDWB is assessing and releasing Development  Case studies, which are of relevance for finding donors.

 For more information please Visit:

http://capacity4dev.ec.europa.eu/aid-support/

Our official website:

http://www.knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org

Contact: enquiries@knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org

KFDWB INTRODUCTORY MEETING PROGRAMME by Mr Richard N Nzingah,

7^TH FEBRUARY 2015

INTRODUCTION

The introductory meeting was organized by KFDWB Kenya Team Member and the group leaders of student groups namely; Climate Action Team and the Environmental Science Club, of the Pwani University, Kilifi.

OBJECTIVE

The objective of the meeting was to create awareness on KFDWB and sensitize on Millennium Development Goals and the forthcoming Sustainable Development Goals amongst the young scholars, who are group members, in the university.

RELEVANCE

This is an initial intervention by KFDWB to reach young scholars in Universities who are already in Volunteering initiatives as their extra curriculum activities, while pursuing their careers that are in line with the millennium development goals and the forthcoming Sustainable development goals. In this context, we chose to engage with student groups and associations in universities as a way to achieving the KFDWB goals. Well mapped groups and associations within University Institutions were considered for this cause after a thorough scrutiny.

ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION

The activity was an introductory meeting whereby a KFDWB Kenya team member, Richard F. Nzingah, officiated in a participatory way to the young scholars from the two groups. They were mobilized to meet by their respective group leaders. The group leaders commenced by introducing their members, sharing their groups’ goals and activities conducted. Then they welcome their guest to deliberate on KFDWB.

METHODOLOGY

To make this a success, the group leaders had to mobilize their members for the meeting. Though they normally meet on separate days, they agreed on a neutral day and time. A meeting program was shared to the group leaders prior to the meeting day and edited to a final copy. Two important sessions were held as per the program of the day. They were highlighting who KFDWB are and its mechanism. Secondly, a session on KFDWB’s main pillars; the Millennium Development Goals and forthcoming Sustainable Development Goals was held in a participatory way whereby the young scholars contributed to the best of their knowledge, identifying gaps and complimenting on various targets of each millennium development goal. They also matched this with their groups’ activities. This was followed by a Questions and Answers session that summarized the discussion with a conclusive agreement that KFDWB Initiative was a relevant cause in their groups’ goals and members were ready to work together with the initiative.

RESULTS

We managed to reach a total of 28 young scholars at the Pwani University with the knowledge on KFDWB and sensitization on the Millennium Development Goals and the forthcoming Sustainable Development Goals.

IMPACT

The meeting was a success as group members subscribed as volunteers to KFDWB’s website. Some started to download the android application on their mobile phones so as to catch up with updates. Their expectations were high as they enquired on how to come up with a development Case Study and presented that there were many development issues and best practices that they could work on.

CONCLUSION

The meeting was successful as it was conducted as planned, meeting its objectives in looking for opportunities to engage young scholars in University institutions in meeting the KFDWB’s goals.

You can also view or  downoad the pdf reporting  format here.
 

Proposed Kenya Unit;

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Video Evidence:

Development Aid Support Project | Knowledge for Development Without Borders (KFDWB) is actively seeking to co-operate with like-minded Human Development institutions, Agencies and Foundations in the Design, Implementation and Funding of innovative Development Aid Support Program that supports the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the forthcoming Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). KFDWB therefore, needs and welcomes institutions and individuals throughout the world as volunteers and partners to attain shared Mission.

KFDWB’s mission is to provide worldwide  Development Aid Support to development agencies, organizations, local governments, NGOs  public and private institutions by sensitizing local communities to know and understand which human development challenges and/or frustrations they face each day, and make the information and knowledge universally accessible via a central database and useful to development organizations and local and national responsible bodies in order to prioritize and highlight and  alleviate the problems at a community level to reach the  Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the forthcoming Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in each corner of the globe.

In order to gather and collate these information and knowledge, it is necessary to engage, and work hand in hand with the local populations, local Media, local NGOs, local governments, private and public institutions, international development organizations, and local best community practices etc.

These activities require an integrated central database capable of recording and classifying the information and knowledge, local volunteers to put the information and knowledge in the integrated central database on our development aid support platform, local volunteers and/or Staff to verify the accuracy of the raised information and knowledge (Development Aid Support and/or local development best practices) before a 'Development Case Study' (DCS), and staff to investigate, review, summary and classify the information and knowledge on our development aid support platform.

In addition we need also to set up a central permanent office in Vienna and local offices on the ground with support staff who have the experience to deal with individual support requests and to build up case studies to provide an accurate and comprehensive analysis of the current situations on the ground and build the 'Development Case Study' (DCS) for the donors’ Funding.

To operate on the field we need to establish partnerships with local and international NGOs, governments, development aid agencies, charitiesand foundations, and some facilities and meet operation overheads in transport network to send volunteers and/or Staff for analysis, verification and inspection of the requests for development aid support request that have been received by KFDWB from different fields inside and outside the country in each corner of the globe.

These facilities are not available in the remote areas in all countries, particularly those where relatively large proportions of the population are affected by the human development challenges and/or frustrations.During the 4 months of operation, we have focused more efforts on Kenya to gather development Aid support without neglect of other areas across the globe. It is important to underscore that gathering development Aid Support Request on our central database is not enough. KFDWB’s fact-finding and investigation mission is then sent to investigate in collaboration with the local communities on the raised development aid support request for approval to build the Development Case Study.

During our 4 months of operation without funding, we remark that the collection of development aid support and the building of Development Case Studies (DCS) on these requests require enormous human efforts and financial undertaking. It is a lot of work and sometime the socio-environmental working conditions of our local volunteers and/or Staff is extremely difficult because of, but not limited to the following, geographical vastness, remoteness, long distances, and transport and infrastructure challenges notwithstanding.

i. Cultural traditions in relation to family and gender that determine whether family is good and cohesive or broken and abusive. Rural communities pose difficulties in information gathering for instance it is very hard in a purely traditional community to allow women to be interviewed on gender related matters or community welfare as it is believed to be the male domain. It takes a lot of resources to be invested in information gathering.

ii. Historical injustices that bring community conflicts have perennially led to inter-clan and community rivalry/civil conflicts and insecurity. This scares away investors. This has enhanced hatred and tribal prejudice and do not guarantee security to penetrate for information and data collection. Some communities are prone to insecurity, hotspots, high risk areas etc. which requires deployment of security personnel for field staff to facilitate them to reach communities for interviews, verification and compiling data for formulating Development Case Studies.

iii. Lack of education forms great language barrier that deters effective communicationfor participation especially in communities with high illiteracy rates, one will need recruitment of a translator or guide, oral distortion notwithstanding.

iv. Identity challenges, those require new Development Aid Support Agencies/entities been officially launched and incorporated by government departments, agencies and leaders at various administrative structures for ease recognition, acceptability and trust with state data.

v. Logistics of holding meetings, workshops and interviews, this is a delicate area. It is not is easy to get appointments, allocation of venues or and allowed to be to video-tape scenes, photographs or structures. To conduct workshops, seminars will require resources to hire halls/venues, facilitate key speakers, resource persons and ensure their security is in place.

vi. Syndrome of handouts where opinion leaders need to be given tokens of appreciation to share information. Development aid is associated with NGOs that have money and their representatives have to pay allowances for their work to be facilitated. Even government officials are not spared either, they need out of pocket allowances /per diems for travel, lunches, accommodation etc.

vii. Leadership quality, those that have little education, lack experience or and vision to coordinate and accommodate new views on new technology to accelerate development. They are stereo-type who do not embrace change, new trends, new paradigm, systems of new mechanisms. Generally hard to embrace change and see it necessary for them to be change agents. To dissuade them from such attitude is resource consuming exercise in terms of time as an economic resource and monetary value.

All these come at great additional expense and workload. KFDWB needs funding and the right strategy to operate accordingly on the field in each corner of the globe. So we are calling to all development foundations, individuals, development agencies, donors, governments, organizations, public and private institutions that find our initiative relevant to provide us financial assistance. The work of the KFDWB is intended to be financed through social Service Support to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the forthcoming Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) activities (providing technical assistance at the communities level on the best practices of MDGs and SDGS, collection of the Development Aid Support on the ground, building the Development Case Study (DCS) and make themaccessible on request), through donations, contributions of public and private funds, charities, foundations’ funds andthrough public fund raising and other in kind contributions.

KFDWB can provide you with a full 'case study' for any of the support requests shown in the table of summary requests for development (Please visit the link on: http://www.knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org/support-request/) aid we have received in our database. Some examples of full Development Case Studies (DCS) are provided below, which include the following: a review of all previous relevant local, national and international reports, knowledge of previous and/or current donor funding and their objectives, the actual situation on the ground with respect to funding, testimonials from local community members, leaders/administrators, resource persons, media reports, and photographic and/or video material evidence.Where possible, KFDWB are able to provide a basic costed solution for the remediation of the community problem. Please note KFDWB charges for supplying a full DCS on request. These examples of full Development Case Studies (DCS) can be downloaded on the following link: http://www.knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org/category/case-studies/

Our special Thanks go to our Volunteers and Aid workers across the globe, who are making this program progressing by joining the initiative, and letting us and the world know of the situation on the ground, by raising development aid support request tickets via our central database, by reviewing and accessing development aid support request on the fields as well as by sharing our website across their social and professional networks and inviting other Volunteers and Aid workers to join this initiative.Our special Thanks go also to institutions, partners, universities, governments, foundations, privates, publics, NGOs, agencies, donors, individuals that are willing to support us, to finance us, and to collaborate with us.

“We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference. - Nelson Mandela”

Development Aid Support | Worldwide program based on volunteerism

[1] http://www.knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org
[2] http://www.ngojobs.at/ngos/583
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:KFDWB
[4] http://capacity4dev.ec.europa.eu/aid-support/
[5] http://www.scoop.it/t/developement-aid-support
[6] https://twitter.com/KFDWB
[7] https://www.facebook.com/pages/Development-Aid-Support/352715731559002

Our field development support mechanism process:

During the training our volunteers are motivated and educated on development matters on our community learning center (StayConnecteD4Dev). They become skilled and motivated volunteers. Under the guidance and mentoring of our regional or local volunteer manager, volunteers are trying to reach their  respective local communities, particularly, the most vulnerable (people in rural villages, in peri-urban settings, youth groups,  illiterate and semi-illiterate communities) to educate them on the local problems (the root causes) they are facing to  know or understand which human development challenges they are facing,  and  on how they  can try to resolve first these challenges  locally, and/or help them to collect information about their problems, challenges, frustrations, etc. that they live with every day of their current existence.

Awareness is raised among communities on SDGs. The volunteers’ capacity is strenghtend through trainings, seminars and workshops. In addition to that, volunteers might take part in projects and social networking events. 

 

Local volunteers go into their community to note any issues

Being aware of the SDGs, local volunteers are able to raise awareness in the communities and a variety of stakeholders (ex. village elders, sub-county and county administrators, families, churches, institutions, charities, foundations, and volunteers.) Volunteers are able to point out and report problems, by raising a request for development aid. As a response to that KFDWB is releasing a Case studies, which is of relevance for finding donors.

KFDWB Team assesses and releases Development Case Studies

After KFDWB recieves a request for development aid via website or mobile App, the NGO or individual who raised the request will be contacted for further information about the problem. As a result KFDWB is releases a case study that is reviewed by the community, relevant NGOs or local/national institutions. Case studies are of evidencial relevance for donors who are ready to provide financial and/or technical support. You can view or  downoad the pdf reporting  format here.

Proposed Kenya Unit;
 

Photographic Evidence:

 

Video Evidence:

Please read also KFDWB INTRODUCTORY MEETING HELD AT PWANI UNIVERSITY, KILIFI COUNTY, ON 7TH FEBRUARY 2015 AT 10:00AM.
Please visit our official website at: http://www.knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org       

If Human development is defined as the process of enlarging people’s freedoms and opportunities and improving their social justice, economic and environmental well-being, citizens have to participate, and decide worldwide who to be, what to do, and how to live individual and together to reach social justice, economic and environmental well-being of our lovely planet.

The struggles and upheavals around us and over there are showing that there is a need to create better paths and opportunities for local self-sufficiency, independence and dignity for all worldwide through education, training, housing and other social and environmental Services etc. The paths and opportunities that include more citizens in the human development decisions processes and  human development local best practices in each corner of the globe.

I am thinking here about a young volunteer organization based in Austria, Vienna where I volunteer too. The organization is Knowledge for Development Without Borders (KFDWB) which is developing the project Development Aid Support Mechanism.

The  objective of this project is to provide worldwide Development Aid Support to development agencies, organizations, local governments, NGOs public and private institutions by helping local communities know and understand which human development challenges and/or frustrations they are facing each day, and make these information and knowledge universally accessible via a central database and useful to development organizations and local and national responsible bodies in order to highlight and alleviate the problems at a community level to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the forthcoming Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in each corner of the globe.

Conclusion

I would like to conclude here  that we do not need to point out anybody, any development organizations, any universities, community practices, NGOs, public and private institutions and governments as Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are applied to all people (Rich and poor) worldwide. We have ALL witnessed or been party to the failure of some Millennium Development (MDGs) Goals to achieve their assigned objectives to reach sustainable and worth-living integrated development worldwide.

Local communities may be engaged more in the reporting, and/or raising a ticket about the economic, social and environmental problems they are daily facing so that Human development engagements, researches,  interventions and resources must be efficiency targeted and focused locally.

As long as local communities do not know or understand which human development challenges they are facing and try to resolve first these challenges locally, and/or raise a ticket about their problems, challenges, frustrations, etc. that they live with every day of their current existence it will be difficult to help them as foreign Human development aid will still have sociocultural context resistances.....

Read also: Thinking outside the box: Rethinking the sustainable development processes with the example of the Lampedusa disaster