Resources

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• Resources constraints
• Session 15
• Global Youth Network Workshop Needs Assessment
  Programme Planning

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What are resources constraints?

• Very simply, resource is something you can use to
  help you achieve your aim. But in order for
  anything to be a resource you must first have a
  good idea about the methods you are going to use.
• Likewise a constraint is something that prevents
  you from achieving your aim through the means you
  have chosen.

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What resources do we need?

• Of course, this will depend largely on the kind
  of tasks you set yourself, but broadly speaking
  you may look at three categories
• Material resources
• Human resources
• Financial resources

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Material resources

• This includes things, for example books,
  costumes, awareness material, a place to meet,
  food for volunteers, etc.
• In many ways material resources are the easiest
  to come by but only if you have a good
  relationship with the community you are working
  in.

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Material resources

• You can try and secure material resources from
• Within the community
• Local businesses
• Families

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Human resources

• This is probably the most valuable resource you
  have because it is the most flexible and because
  this is the one resource that you can develop
  yourself
• Human resources include all the volunteer, paid
  staff, if any and community collaborators

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Human resources

• Volunteering is unpaid conscious, free will
  activity for the benefit of others
• You will find various kinds of volunteers in
  almost every community but volunteerism does not
  grow of its own accord, it must be encouraged.
• Ochman and Jordan (1997), Volunteers A
  Valuable Resource, Institute for Policy Studies,
  John Hopkins University

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Human resources

• One way to encourage participation is involving
  the community and target group in the whole
  process of planning and implementing an
  intervention
• Of course, other methods like recruitment drives,
  making presentations to schools and other
  captive audiences are also available

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Human resources

• Things to keep in mind when working with
  volunteers
• Be sure to have a definite job in mind before you
  start looking for volunteers
• Describe the job well and in such a way that it
  emphasizes the benefits that the volunteer will
  also get by working with you

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Human resources

• Make sure you match the interests of the
  volunteer as far as possible to the kind of work
  he or she does with you
• Prepare an adequate training/ orientation
  schedule for the volunteer
• Programme managers must have regular feedback
  sessions with the volunteer
• Reward volunteers for good work done

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Financial resources

• Some issues to keep in mind
• You are not out to find money, you are out to
  find people who will give you money
• Money is usually given to an individual, not an
  organisation one person gives money to another
  person

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Funding pyramid
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Some methods of fundraising

• Small fundraising events like bake sales, garage
  sales, book sales, etc.
• Small but ongoing fundraising activity like
  running a lending library, etc.
• One off fundraising activity like a phone
  campaign
• Making presentations to donors