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The Social Partnership Project: The Story of Ufadhili in the Coast
Patrick Ochieng, Ujamaa Center
After working in the coast for about four years the best I could say was that there was so much to do yet so little had been done. We pondered over this state of hopelessness with Elkanah Odembo at the Mombasa Club in September of 2001 and agreed that something must be done only that something must be community led and must utilize local resources. That is how Ujamaa a very new NGO at the time began a conversation around partnerships for local development. Ufadhii was implementing Dfid co-funded project whose aim was mainly to develop a model of sustainable community development, which is community-led and based on local resource mobilisation and cross-sector alliances.ufadhili thus commissioned us to a task.
The task for which Ufadhili retained Ujamaa Center in the process was first about identifying various pilot location communities and facilitating and organizing community meetings with community leaders, social groups, churches CBOs, corporates, NGOs, and local administration. The Center was also supposed to provide logistical support to Ufadhili after selection of pilot initiative community and ensure that the community process of consensus building, prioritization and planning does indeed take place. The Center would also coordinate the preparation of community plans and strategies and work to ensure that the momentum of the project is sustained by establishing and assisting the community action plan coordination committee. Three years later what can we report home about?
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