What is the Empowering Community?
The Empowering Community is a collaborative ecosystem consisting of individuals, groups and organizations/institutions that work together actively and sustainably in raising, distributing, managing and interpreting public resources to support humanitarian work and environmental conservation.
Principles of the Empowering Community
Members of the Empowering Community work based on the principles of volunteerism, integrity, solidarity, equality, openness, and diversity.
Roles of the Empowering Community
As an ecosystem, members of the Empowering Community fulfil the following roles:
STEERING COMMITTEE
Members of the Empowering Community are responsible for developing the strategic direction of Pundi Programs. The steering committee includes representatives from the Pundi strategic partners, learning partners (Rukun Bestari), experts and/or activists as well as IKa staff that work together to ensure IKa’s relevance and focus as a resource organization committed to social justice.
RESOURCES RAISER
The members of the Empowering Community identify, assemble, harness and mobilise the four Catur Daya (resource elements) – knowledge, networks, volunteerism and funding. The richer the diversity of the members of the Empowering Community, the richer, more innovative and diverse the potential resources that can be harnessed and deployed by IKa. Resource-raising activities are driven by the Empowering Community members that have access to funding, knowledge, networks, and volunteering principles to support humanitarian and environmental protection activities.
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
Our Community Partners include all those communities, organizations, and individuals who adopt the Catur Daya (resource elements) approach for their humanitarian work and environmental protection activities. Community Partners work with the support of Catur Daya resource elements and are committed to developing community capacity so that they can in turn identify and contribute Catur Daya resource elements to other organizations, communities, and individuals.
PEMAKNAAN (MEANING GENERATION)
A network of local knowledge bearers is selected through a consultative process by the Empowering Community to both contextualise (geographically and-or thematically) and reflect on the work of the Community Partners. These knowledge bearers are locally rooted individuals who use their local knowledge and experience to give meaning to and provide a more holistic and relevant evaluation of our Community Partner activities and impact of the Catur Daya (resource elements) support in the context of specific local conditions and struggles.
MANAGEMENT
Indonesia for Humanity (IKa) as the resource organization that initiated the Empowering Community takes responsibility for ensuring the efficacy and sustainability of the Empowering Community’s work by:
- Facilitating the Steering Committee in formulating the strategic direction and development of IKa’s activities.
- Developing and expanding the membership, diversity and roles of the Empowering Community in order to encourage optimal and sustainable resource raising.
- Distribute resources to the Community Partners through a collaborative selection process that includes relevant expert partners. Provide assistance in distributing resources in a targeted manner and promoting the achievements and lessons learnt from the projects supported by these resources.
- Facilitate the participation of the knowledge bearers who are located in the areas where the Catur Daya Partners Communities work.