MISSION
Facilitating globally emerging social and economic environments by promoting sustainable people centered development.
VISION
Achieving universal peace and harmony through selfless service to others.
FOCAL AREAS
Capacity Building, Wealth Creation, Micro-Credit & Financing, Educational Development, Youth Engagement, Environmental Protection & Enhancement , Social Enterprise & Social Investments, Heritage Development, & Peace &Security.
KEY OBJECTIVES
To intervene, formulate, coordinate and facilitate initiatives with a view to impact poverty reduction, equity building and social mobility;
To ensure the fullest participation of communities and/or stakeholders in the design and implementation of projects for their own development through collective action;
To identify resources and influence the leveraging, harnessing and utilization of resources intrinsic to local communities, to stimulate community economic development;
To facilitate interventions to enable stakeholders to optimize their socio economic opportunities; and
To apply creative solutions and pathways to harness non-traditional resources to address challenges of life.
MAJOR/CURRENT ACHIEVEMENTS
Piloted initiatives which have become state programmes such as the National Entrepreneurship Development Company Limited ( NEDCO) and the Community-Based Environmental Protection and Enhancement Programme (CEPEP);
Developed fifty three (53) Community Development Plans including for high risk communities identified by the Ministry of National Security;
Facilitated the development of eleven (11) Heritage sites throughout Trinidad;
Partnered with the Citizen Security Programme to deliver crime -prevention services in some of the most at risk communities in Trinidad; and
Served for six (6) years on the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP ) Global Environment Facility National Steering Committee.
