Special Self-Help Programs: Project Priorities
Projects selected for SSH funding are those which:
- Improve basic economic or social conditions at the local community or village level by funding development projects that involve the construction of schools, health clinics, and water wells;
- Produce employment and marketable skills, such as village craft centers and agricultural cooperatives;
- Aid the HIV/AIDS-inflicted;
- Address global issues such as women's empowerment and the environment;
- Provide a firm foundation for democratic processes to take root;
- Support high-impact, quick-implementation activities which benefit a large number of people within one year without requiring further SSH assistance;
- Involve a significant local contribution in cash, labor, or material, and are within the ability of the local community to operate and maintain; and
- Are in direct response to the initiative and aspirations of the local community (the local sponsors of the project, who will also be its prime beneficiaries).
