Community Initiative for Change and Development (CIFCAD)
CIFCAD has empowered humanity to live dignified lives in different ways, from the tea sector players to the flower sector and communities. The impact and transformation grow beyond the limits and are evident throughout the feedback stories. We have been keen on empowering our people with knowledge for Gender Mainstreaming through assessing the needs and mitigating the risks; how to collaborate with others for impact, dealing with mental wellness and effective communication and financial literacy for economic empowerment.
Drawing the Line [DTL]
DTL is a pre-training assessment tool that we have developed and adopted to assess the needs and risks that the workers go through. This follows a play-based participatory approach and invites the participants to take an active role in sharing their experiences and what is important to them. Through this, we ensure that the voices of the workers are captured on the most important topic they need to be trained on. This practice has led to tremendous outcomes in the delivery of the pieces of training since the participants get exactly what they have been looking for.
Women Economic Empowerment (CIFCAD)
CIFCAD is committed to improving women’s financial literacy as part of addressing GBV issues. Our program encourages workers in the tea sector to increase their open communication among spouses regarding finances. Tea farmers are advised to include their spouses in decision-making on savings, investments, and spending.
Projects
I have been a casual labor in this village for over 10 years, there is no organization that has ever called me to participate in a training to see how I can become economically resilient. I feel valued…I will go back and practice what we have learnt.
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We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.
We train to build capacity and develop transformational leaders
Featured Programs
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Education
Though talents and brilliance exist everywhere, opportunities do not. We believe that education is the best way to break cycle of poverty. CIFCAD provides literacy and language skills training, educational, vocational, and entrepreneurial programs.
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Transformative Leadership
Among many initiatives on Gender equality and transformative leadership, CIFCAD works towards achieving gender equality and transformative leadership through.
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Economic Empowerment
CIFCAD seeks to empower women economically and socially though agriculture, formation of village savings and loaning associations that enable them to save and borrow loans at an agreed period of time as well as interest.
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Family Issues
Globally, nations cannot achieve the sustainable development goal of ending climate change without addressing the way families cook. Energy plays a key role in eco-system but if governments do not think about energy generation, then the environment will always be negatively impacted.