Social Facilitation at Edenhoogte Primary School - #ASIDI

Community Engagement at Edenhoogte Primary School

Community Participation in the selection of school colours: Luckhoff Combined School building project

Luckhoff Combined school Deputy Principal, teaching staff, non-teaching staff and community members participated in the selection and choosing of school colours for the new school building that is under construction as part of the National Department of Basic Education's Accelerated Schools Infrastructure Delivery Initiative (ASIDI) programme.

Social Facilitation: Diamanthoogte Combined School

Social Facilitation: Diamanthoogte school building project (ASIDI)

Key Social Facilitation Deliverables

As an experienced Social Facilitator, Joshua Mahlangu delivers services and advice in the following key performance areas:

l  Develop Community Engagement Plans (CEP’s), Communication Plans and Implementation Plan Matrix.

l  Conduct community research and Participatory Rapid Appraisals (PRA’s).

l  Develop Stakeholder Power Maps, Social Asset Analysis, Problem Tree Analysis and assessment reports based on local Integrated Development Plans (IDP’s).

l  Compile community profiles and community visioning.

l  Identify and define interested and affected parties and mobilise community input.

l  Establish community stakeholder committees and develop schedules of community meetings.

l  Conduct regular consultative meetings to secure buy-in and mutuality; and to ensure maximum community participation and sustainable partnerships.

l  Facilitate for the design and implementation to consider the concerns of community stakeholders.

l  Identify and analyse social issues and risks to the project.

l  Coordinate activities of Community Liaison Officers (CLO’s).

l  Assist to build sustainable municipal-corporate-community partnerships.

l  Co-ordinate the recruitment of project beneficiaries and provide beneficiary data for capturing onto the Beneficiary Information Management Systems (BIMS) and also compile monthly status reports and Post Implementation Reviews (PIR).

Community Involvement in Decision Making: Construction of PT Sanders Combined School - Trompsburg

Cosmo City Residents Ordered to Stay Away from School Building Project

http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/residents-ordered-to-stay-away-from-school-1.1492847#.UYGLh6JTCO0

Through Social Facilitation, we assist to avoid and mitigate in challenges such as the one in the above link. Community engagement and social facilitation is a key resource in any community project.