Background of the
centre:
AIM is an organization inaugurated in 1991 with
her main focus on the socially, economically and
physically disadvantaged, rural and urban community.
In the mean time AIM happen to visit different
community of many areas of
Pakistan
. AIM had meeting with local groups, CBOs, and many
other organizations. With this AIM develop small groups
in different communities for the expansion of the
movement of development. Another reason that AIM Planned
to expend her working areas, for this purpose AIM used
local resources. AIM always works to achieve sustainable
development, and for the spirit of sustainable
development, many communities preferred for their local
leadership. AIM
always gave importance to people’s opinions. AIM
organized meeting with local groups CBOs, COO, and
shared with them, on organizational matters.
With meetings and sharing there are many
things are seen. Many organizations discussed that there
is need to develop local leadership. Some discussed that
new groups must form to develop communities. They also
discussed that there is need a regular communication
program among organizations for the information and
coordination.
The organization discussed that there must be
regular communication among all small groups, CBOs, and
NGOs for these purposes.
They discussed that with the collaboration
and coordination of these organizations and groups they
will develop in their strengths. With the suggestion of
different organization AIM planned with them to start
some activities, that can provided them a good time of
meeting with different organizations. With suggestion of
different organization AIM organized many workshops with
many grassroots level groups and organizations.
In this period we develop new groups and
small organization for their native communities’
development.
While
working with different organizations ,we learnt
following lessons
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Sharing and networking is the important to
increase experiences ,information and approach.
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Aims and objectives will be broadened with
the help of sister and network organizations.
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Capacity building and institutional
development is necessary to sustain the community
development projects and programs.
AIM is privileged to provide services to the
network organizations in the following capacities.
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Improvement and development of introductory
organizational material.
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Mostly, organizations are unable to present
their running activities in the form of reports, AIM
helped to prepare reports for the running
activities’ presentation.
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Organization of community meetings, in
keeping technical aspects.
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Needs assessment techniques.
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Proposal development with the direct and
active community participation.
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Follow-up and responses to the queries or
questions regarding to the submitted project.
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Project implementation, management and
evaluation.
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Project sustainability and conversion of
project to the program
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Report writing and presentation.
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How a project can be supported as integrated
activity?
In keeping the need and demand from the
network organizations, AIM took initiative for the
resource centre and invested its all possible resources
for its preliminary activities like a room,
publications, a computer with printer, AV resources and
part time resource person.
Objectives
of the Resource Centre
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To make coordination among grassroots organizations, CBOs, and
National organizations
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To build the capacity of the local groups and grassroots
organizations
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To promote local leadership
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To develop new groups for the development of their respective
communities
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To extend development work though groups’ formation.
Needs
for the strengthen local groups
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The areas where we have no direct access we can work there
through our local groups
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They have better penetration in their native community
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Community need community based groups where they get easy
approach
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Their familiarity with community make the development process
more sustainable
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The local groups know the problems of their native communities
better ways
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Promotion of the leadership at grassroots level
Reason
for the development of the resource center
With regular training program workshop with
the grassroots organizations and meeting with different
groups we note the following things;
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Many organization organized program but remain fail due to
technical education
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There is need of leadership at grassroots level
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Local groups and grassroots organization need to build their
capacity
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The resources center will work among organization as bridges
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Organization need such place from where they can get their
required information
