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The Reconciliation Method of Development
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Economic Development, for Jhai Foundation, means helping poor villagers
- develop a 10 year vision and
- implement their own six-month workplans
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We help our partners in villages build on assets identified by people in villages.
In each case we facilitate planning and are a junior partner in the implementation phase. We wait for villagers, especially women, to make their voices heard.
Almost invariably their priorities have been better health and education for their children and more income for their family. In most regards they want their traditional life to continue.
It works for them. We try to work with them within these boundaries so that the work products produced are most likely to be sustainable by them. Our input is technical and sometimes financial.
We help. We don't direct. And we write contracts where every "t" is crossed and every "i" is dotted.
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We are less concerned with the pristine nature of our model, than with how empowered people feel in the villages and how many get what they want by using what they have - and what we can bring to the table - to get what they need.
People move towards their self-defined futures. We help by building on our nine years of successful effort in very poor rural villages. With villagers and local partners we build:
- Community buy-in training modules and tools
- Sustainable business development and training modules and tools that include the making of visions and rigorous work plans, cooperative resource development, accounting training, and ways for
continuous quality control
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