Governments allocate funds for community development projects through decentralized policies and strategies. Bolivia, Sri Lanka and Zambia. Nigeria, Guatemala, Venezuela, Gambia, Sierra Leone and Tanzania. Community Development Programme is mostly working within National Poverty and Decentralization Programmes in the countries of operation. Beating of wives and children, gang rivalry and sexual abuse against minors is the order of the day in the settlement which has few, if any, services or places to breathe or relax.
Violence is the solution to many people faced with poverty, drugs and exclusion from the society.
The death of Jonathan opened the way for a dialogue with 200 gang-members and the people from the settlement. Project staff sensitized residents to organize themselves towards the development of a society with services and amenities, to start a process of integration into the mainstream society and ultimately to find a way out of poverty. Project staff today coordinate an inter-institutional team that works with the communities to rehabilitate the physical infrastructure and create a social space for living in dignity and safety. The Project has worked to strengthen existing institutional and community capacity for democratic and effective community development. The inter-institutional team today works together with community leaders to design and implement integrated area plans for the eight sectors of the settlement.