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Northern Province NGO Coalition
- The Limpopo Province NGO Coalition, which
is the wing of the South African National NGO Coalition
was established in April 1995. It is a non
- governmental organisation that works towards
creating an enabling environment for member organisations,
in an effective, accessible, legitimate and representative
way in order to strengthen their ability to better serve
their communities.
- NONGOCO, with a membership of over hundred and fifty NGOs
that cover various thematic areas like rural development,
land reform, adult education, human rights, environment,
advocacy, gender and arts & culture among others
- this coalition strategically located to respond appropriately
to the needs of the nonprofit sector.
- Since inception, NONGOCO has carried out ground
- breaking campaigns such as the Poverty Hearings, the Rural
Development Initiative, RDP/GEAR Hearings and has managed
to influence policy, notably the promulgation of the NPO
Act, tax reform process and the NDA Act.
- Through the Media and Documentation programme, NONGOCO
produces the only Limpopo Province quarterly 8-page civic
- based newspaper,the Community Gazette. Our plans for next
year is to publish Khomelela, a development journal that
will feature various papers presented
- during our monthly political seminars. The journal will
cover themes ranging from land reform, racism, the role
of civil society formaions and challenges of change and
transformation. Our other programme, also rooted in fighting
rural poverty is Advocacy & Capacity Building.
- Through this programme, we have managed to established
one of the leading social movements in Limpopo Province,
Movement for Delivery,launched on 30 November 2000 at Westernburg
Community Hall. Our last programme is Membership Services.
This programme saw theinitiative of the sector development
process. Through this programme we provide institutions
with relevant information about the non-profit sector.
- Now
NONGOCO is fully functional with the Provincial Executive
Committee, the Council and Secretariat. NONGOCO remains
one of the leading provincial coalitions in South Africa.NONGOCO
is chaired by Cde. Lucas Mufamadi, who is from Nkuzi Development
Association.
Before
the end of the year, we shall be carrying out the following
activities.
1.
Provincial NGO Week. Dates: 1-3 November 2001.
Where? We shall tell you! Interested organisations must
contact :
Sophy Kgatle, NONGOCO administrator on (015) 295 3528 or Fax
(015) 295 3541
2. National NGO Week.
Dates: 12-16 November 2001.
Where? Rustenburg in North West. For registration, please
Contact:
Tebogo
Matoane or Thami of SANGOCO on (011) 403 7746. The
theme for this year is Grassroots Action for Poverty Eradication.
For more information contact:
NONGOCO at:52 Landross
Mare Street, Pioneer Building, Offices 306-309, Polokwane
Telephone: (015) 295
3542/28
Fax: (015) 295 3541
E-mail: nongoco@freemail.absa.co.za
or vonan@freemail.absa.co.za
Tsogang
Water and Sanitation
Tsogang
works in the Limpopo Province and Mpumalanga, and has 7 years
extensive rural experience. Tsogang support the development
struggle of rural people through assisting them, to develop
and expand their inherent abilities and run ‘their own’
projects. We have a multi skilled staff whose services to
communities ensure the sustainability of projects. We use
different methodologies, languages, training and techniques
to suit our ‘clients’ needs the best.
Tsogang
provides the following services:
- Community water and sanitation
design, operations and maintenance
- Community bookkeeping,
organization and building
- Health and hygiene awareness/education,
dramas
- Rural and peri-urban engineering
- Project management - social,
technical, disaster
- Feasibility studies, environmental
impact assessments, proposal writing
- Research, conflict resolution,
mentoring
Our contact details:
Tel: 015–307 2673 / fax: 015–307
5299 / e-mail: tsogang@pixie.co.za
Tlhavhama
Training Initiative
Tlhavhama
Training Initiative is a non-governmental development organisation,
based in Polokwane in South Africa’s Limpopo Province,
which seeks to:
- Develop and promote practical
and participatory methodologies
- Enhance the ability of
development organisations to render effective services;
and
- Maximise the use of existing
human and organisational resources
For people-driven development
in the Limpopo Province.
Tlhavhama is a network of training and development organisations,
which joined hands in order to increase their capacity for
developmental programme delivery and to forge links between
organisations. The organisation achieves its goals through
a multi-pronged strategy of training for community development
workers; organisational development interventions and support
for development organisations; and active networking provincially,
nationally and internationally.
Tlhavhama provides Organisational Support and Training services
to its +/- 60 member organisations, and others service organisations,
based primarily in the Northern Province. In support of
this service.
Tlhavhama’s core processes
are:
- Learner-centred Adult Education
techniques;
- PRA/PLA Tools and Techniques
- Visualisation Tools and
Techniques;
- Analytical Tools and Techniques
drawn from a variety of methods;and
- Objectives Oriented Planning
Tools and Techniques.
New Areas of Focus (2001 –
2004)
- Developing, Promoting and
Using Household Livelihood Security (Sustainable Livelihoods)
Approaches for assessing community and household needs,
designing interventions and monitoring and evaluating impact.
For the last 2 years, Tlhavhama has worked with CARE International,
CARE South Africa and Oxfam GB in the development of learning
and planning materials to enable organisations of different
sizes, sectors and scopes to undertake livelihood assessments
using participatory tools. Tlhavhama is a key contributor
to a training guide which will be published by Oxfam Publishing
in mid-2001, and has undertaken several orientation, training
and livelihood assessment exercises in order to develop
and test the materials.
- Developing, Promoting and
Using a Rights-Based Approach to development planning, coupled
with the livelihoods approach indicated above. Sustainable
livelihoods imply that all people are able to access, interpret
and exercise their human rights. Through exploring and adopting
a rights-based approach to development thinking, consciously
engaging organisations and communities on issues of gender,
generation, HIV/AIDS status and other rights issues, Tlhavhama
hopes to make an impact on how human development is conceptualised
and actioned in the Northern Province to the benefit, again,
of those who are most vulnerable.
- Actively Promoting and
Facilitating Developmental Partnerships between civil society
organisations, civil society and government, and other targeted
role players. As an organisation, Tlhavhama has consciously
sought to work in collaboration with like-minded organisations,
and now feels the need to work with our members on developing
partnerships of substance, based not on money, but on values
and shared goals. Tlhavhama worked with Olive OD & T
and the Eastern Cape NGO Coalition to design and implement
a Partnership Development Programme in 2000, and has written
the first of two practical guides on this topic (to be published
by Olive OD & T). We are now in a position to work more
closely with our members and other interested parties on
the development, maintenance and evaluation of partnerships.
For more details
about the Organisation please contact:
The Programme Administrator
Tel : 015 291 3312
Fax: 015 291 3323
E-mail: tlhavham@mweb.co.za
Limpopo
Province Landless People's Movement
In 1999 and 2000 Nkuzi organized provincial land rights conferences
which were attended by representatives from over 150 different
communities and groups involved in land reform. The discussions
in these conferences and with various communities across the
province led to the establishment of land reform forums in five
different districts of the Province and the launching in the
year 2000 of the Land Rights Coalition. The Coalition is comprised
of the different district forums, the South African Council
of Churches, Limpopo Province NGO Coalition, Land Access Movement
of South Africa and Nkuzi. A number of different campaigns and
activities have been undertaken by these structures.
Among
the activities of the Land Rights Coalition over the past
two years have been a picket at the Union Buildings, meeting
with the Director General (Departmental Head) of the Department
of Land Affairs, Picketing at and attending the Minister of
Land Affairs Indaba, meeting with the Minister of Land Affairs
and attending the conference.
The
major challenge now is to build awareness and organisational
skills within these emerging structures so that they are able
to develop into a fully independent and effective movement
that will assist to deepen democracy.
The Land Rights Coalition can be contacted through Nkuzi which
performs a secretariat function for the Coalition.
Contact:
Jerida
Letsoalo.
Tel: 015-297 6972.
Fax: 015-297 6975.
E-mail: jerida@nkuzi.org.za
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