ABOUT US

HICDEF APPROACH

Our approach focuses on individuals, groups, and networks that want or call to cooperate in order to achieve change at a local or community level. Adopting a community development approach means ensuring that the issues and priorities are identified and agreed by the communities themselves and that people are encouraged to work together towards a collective solution to a shared concern.

HICDEF’s development approach stand-in the following crucial aspects of community development:

  • Informal Education: We involve the communities through direct participation in conducting sensitization and awareness sessions to the community members to come up with lasting solutions to the challenges that may rise up in the community.
  • Collective Action: We promote uniting efforts, strengths, and determination; many people should act for their mutual benefit to protect the interests of the community members who are not able to stand up for themselves.
  • Organized Community Engagement. This approach focuses on facilitating understanding, exchange of information to build social capital and enhance social outcomes through a decision-making process. These further promote social transformation that involves social struggles that can be a means to generate collective power for the powerless people.
  • Self-help Groups for Community-driven development: We focus on the contribution of women, men, and youth in the community’s development. This is an economic community development approach that moves an emphasis from the activity of the central government to local communities. This is also an opportunity for adult education and social psychology development. It also aims at the increase of activity of the large groups of unemployed or semi-employed citizens, often with Lower Levels of Literacy (LLL). Through these groups, HICDEF finds a well-structured avenue to reach out to targeted beneficiaries in the specific community.
  • Community Capacity Building for Sustainable Development. HICDEF is apprehensive about helping communities in obtaining, strengthening, and maintaining the ability to set and achieve their own development goals. This is aimed at achieving, in a balanced way, economic community development and environmental protection outcomes.
  • Nonviolent direct action. This kind of action is aimed at revealing an existing problem, highlighting an alternative, and demonstrating a possible solution to an existing social problem. Community development is focused on the development of developing communities to increase the level of economic and social welfare of the community members.
  • Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an approach to the research that brings together the efforts of the community members and researchers in the research of the community life and problems. All the partners are expected to contribute the expertise, integrate, and share their knowledge to make the process of decision making easier and more effective.

WE BELIEVE

  • A 360-degree perspective is required to address complex human development needs.
  • Sustainability comes from building the capacity of individuals, communities, and countries to address their needs.
  • The key to improving lives is in generating, sharing, and applying knowledge.
  • Partnering with governments, individuals, civil society organizations, the private sector, and communities leads to success.

OUR PROGRAMMING

HICDEF programming aims to:

  • Improve the socioeconomic status of households by increasing financial resources, improving socioeconomic skills and facilitating market inclusion
  • Strengthen food security and nutrition by increasing household food production, improving food utilization and referring vulnerable households to agricultural, nutritional and health services
  • Increase access to and use of protection and legal services by increasing awareness of child protection concerns, improving referral mechanisms to relevant services and empowering families to use them
  • Enhance the capacity of households to access, acquire or provide critical services (such as health, education or legal) by raising awareness and ownership of critical services, reinforcing civil society support and care for vulnerable children and their households, and developing referral systems, including partnerships with the private sector
  • Assess individual household vulnerabilities and interests and design customized household development plans
  • Build the capacity of local communities to respond to the needs of each household.

HICDEF’s community development programs help women, youth and children create a sound gainful future for themselves and their households. Our work focuses on increasing productivity, service, and household incomes.

OUR VALUES

  • Innovation to meet the evolving needs of our beneficiaries, funders, and partners.
  • Mutual respect for diversity and cultural differences.
  • Passion is driven by a personal commitment to make a positive difference.
  • Accountability for our work, measuring, reporting, and continually improving all that we do.
  • Commitment to excellence assured by the highest ethical, quality, operational performance, and scientific standards.
  • Teamwork across disciplines and geographies, within the organization and with our partners.