Using local voluntary organizations

Description

Using local voluntary organizations involves mobilizing community-based groups to address specific social, economic, or environmental problems. This strategy leverages local knowledge, resources, and networks to implement targeted interventions, deliver essential services, and foster community participation. By empowering volunteers and coordinating grassroots efforts, it remedies gaps in government or institutional support, enhances resilience, and ensures that solutions are tailored to local needs, thereby increasing the effectiveness and sustainability of problem-solving initiatives.

Context

Local community groups and NGOs strengths may include their ability to reach the rural poor in remote areas and to promote local participation, their effective use of low-cost technologies, and their innovativeness.