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How we work

This section distils the most relevant and innovative of the strategies Ilkerin Loita Integral Development

The trigger impulse for ILIDP's institutional dynamism and good organizational health emerges from the recognition of the Loita Maasai community as the primary resource of the organization and the reason for its being.

 

ILIDP’s role, strategy and purpose have changed from implementing to building and developing the capacity of grassroots organizations to be implementers.

The empowerment approach puts change management and development processes into the hands of the people.

ILIDP understands that poverty is more than a lack of sufficient financial resources to access decent food, shelter and other basic amenities. Poverty is also about being voiceless and powerless, a consequence of power imbalance and exclusion from decision making structures and processes.

Programme (ILIDP) has used over the years into a set of best practices. The intention is to tease out the reasons why they have worked so well so that other organizations can see how to adapt them to local requirements. 

They can be grouped into seven categories: maintaining social relevance, incorporating the cultural imperatives of the beneficiaries, decentralizing operations, empowering communities, securing livelihoods, building alliances and letting go where necessary.

  • Standing the Test of Time: Sustaining Social Relevance and Organizational Dynamism
  • Constant Social Dialogue with Stakeholders Internal Organizational Dynamism
  • Role Change: From Implementation to Facilitation
  • Mentoring Process
  • Conflict and Criticism Management
  • Committing to an Ethno-Development Strategy
  • Respect for the Indigenous Spirituality of the Loita Maasai
  • Social-Cultural Resource Mobilization
  • Scaling Up by Decentralizing: Pastoralists Community Development Associations
  • Empowering the Community
  • Building and Enhancing a Secure Livelihood
  • Building Strategic Alliances and Networking
  • Letting Go When Initiatives Don’t Work