Community Mobilisation & Environmental Awareness Strategy

This document forms the base of conceptual strategies to guide our work, but it is not an implementation plan, it does however provide a base from which the project actions and specifically the Framework for Community Operation & Maintenance of Infrastructure can be designed.

In the absence of a comparable existing strategy, this document was developed so as to stimulate consideration on the more general concepts of Community Mobilisation and Environmental Awareness for the Maldives. It is considered that whereas this document provides the bigger concepts the details are found through specific implementation of Live & Learn RDP2 activities. The document is kept broad so as to cater to a wider audience and start from where the learner is.

The CMEA Strategy will provide the building blocks and principles identifying an alternate way of delivering environmental actions in the Maldives that leads to change and community empowerment. The key aim for the Strategy is to outline how training benefits can be sustained in the long-term and where the training sits within the community structure and within the priorities of the government. The CMEA Strategy will show how the separate components of the project are joined together in a strategic manner through the approach and methodology. In particular the Strategy will draw on previous lessons learnt to adapt existing tools so as to be more effective. Specifically, adaptation in how the materials are implemented will also be considered. The adapted approach with emphasis on increased community involvement is an outcome from the early strategic considerations that are being considered.