Objectives

i. Education

The scope of our operation will zero in activities designed to improve the performance of teachers and strengthen parents' and children's participation in the whole lecturing system, to enhance good results and quality students who will fit into the job market without prejudice or a feeling of inadequacy.

ii. Agriculture\Food Security

To ensure food security in rural communities, we are emphasizing and lobbying for sustainable agriculture programs and policy reforms, which include resettlement of peasant farmers on arable and irrigable land. There is need to invest heavily in the agriculture sector to meaningfully reduce poverty in rural settings and the country as a whole.

iii. HIV/AIDS

The organisations' thrust is to slow down the rate of new infections (in youths whom we "assume" to be HIV \AIDS free ) and to support both materially, and emotionally to those that are already infected and affected by the pandemic which is posing a serious development crisis to the nation.

iv. Children's Rights

The focus is on upholding the rights of vulnerable children particularly those affected by HIV \AIDS through provision of legal advisory services. Areas of support are:
• Health &Nutrition
• Child Learning and Life Skills
• HIVAIDS
• Child Protection

v. Women's Empowerment

In Zimbabwe women are the majority hence the need to develop their eskills in finance, marketing, and management. And to improve levels of education and provide a window for them to access economic support and acceptance in the society.

vi. Micro and Small Business Development

The organization seeks to promote micro and small scale enterprises to create employment for youths, women and school
leavers, in order to help communities generate and sustain their own income.

vii. Emergency Food Relief

Southern Africa and Zimbabwe in particular are prone to droughts and severe food shortages, with the rural communities being the worst affected. We have positioned ourselves to engage and partner with other organizations to assist with food during difficult times of famine.

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Observations

Rural Mutoko is hard to define and there is no single definition, boundary or demographic profile that captures the diversity and complexity of rural communities. We believe political boundaries are artificial, so our strategy is to understand rural ' communities' as shared attachments to available
resources, places and values.

Concepts of 'rural' and community differ depending on context. While certain sectors have dense villages, other sectors have widely scattered homes on large acreages while both are 'rural', and as such their transport needs, for example, differ greatly.

Rural and Urban Mutoko share many social and physical characteristics e.g. poor education, food shortages, decaying infrastructures and declining population due to HIV \AIDS, decline in moral values and no significant economic development since independence.

Both urban and rural Mutoko leadership lack the capacity for strong land use and community planning. There is generally lack of strong leadership in rural communities, hence the need to build capacity so as to shift from the narrow kind of agendas and entrenched bureaucracies towards
vision and open minded approaches.

Rural communities are not using new information technology because they lag behind in the information revolution. They are missing on benefits of technology, information exchange and real development,

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Strategies

In order to meet the real needs of the communities, has adopted a participatory, transparent and responsive approach. The approach is basically demand driven with emphasis on needs assessments, projects ownership by the community and complimentarity by ourselves and other organizations to enhance sustainability. Relevant workshops will be organized and run to build capacity in different areas of interventions, through information dissemination, technical skills training, and carry out outreach programs to enhance visibility some of the programs material will be in vernacular. Resources to start up projects / programs will be made available to the community.

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Monitoring and Evaluating

All community programs will be monitored by head office to ensure that set targets achieve the expected results. There will be regular supervision of field officers by Head Office personnel. Donor partners will monitor and evaluate performance of projects and programs including financial supervision.

The organisation will design and apply suitable performance assessment and monitoring indicators to facilitate the monitoring and evaluation processes.