So a common question that I am receiving is regarding the organization that I will be working with in Uganda. To best answer all of these questions I am posting the description as it is written in their orientation guide. It covers most everything and will save me time in typing out something new.
CLIDE Ministries and Work
Our Development Philosophy
CLIDE Consultancy and CVM seek to empower local peoples to accept responsibility for their own development. As we partner together with communities, we strive to work alongside them to encourage and promote the vision that they develop for their future. Often, it would be much easier for us as outsiders, to go ahead and do everything for the people, providing all of the funds, materials and energy for success of the program. This ultimately, is a degrading process however, which can lead to an unnecessary and unhealthy dependency syndrome within the community. Some preventative measures will help decrease the chance of this occurring:
¨ Sustainability of Inputs. All medications and equipment used in the community training should be the ones which are available in the host country such that the community members could purchase them in the future, when our ministry or training is completed.
¨ Financial Sustainability. Some fee for veterinary treatments may be charged in order to maintain reciprocity with the community. It can be subsidized a bit to encourage an adequate caseload for seminars. To avoid disappointment later, the community members should be made aware that the prices are not the normal ones, but have been reduced for the training period.
¨ Cultural Respect. Ethno-veterinary treatments are valuable as they help the community to be more self-reliant. Utilizing the local medicines also shows the community that we respect them as we acknowledge their traditional contributions to the animal health profession.
¨ Respecting Protocol. Local government and private veterinary personnel are usually invited to our seminars and given opportunity to share their viewpoints and interact with the members. Community members should be encouraged to utilize government services whenever necessary.
¨ Participatory Training. When we train community members, we always use techniques that can encourage the locals to contribute their ideas, as they often know things that we don’t even know! Some of these techniques include:
Role Plays followed by question and answer
Games with meaning
Reflection questions (See, Reflect, Apply)
Focus Group Discussions
¨ Develop the Capacity of the Communities. Teaching someone to do something is much more valuable than doing it ourselves. Visiting vets and students can encourage the community members to do animal health treatments or other activities together with them during their ministry time.
¨ Minimize Dependency in the Communities. Visitors should refrain from giving random gifts to community members and children (small toys, pens, money, etc. are NOT necessary for making friendships).
¨ Interdependent Relationships. We encourage relationships with the local people. Quality relationships are those that are reciprocal, not just one way. It is good to allow your local friends to assist you in various tasks, such that they feel valued and useful. Allow your needs to be made known, so that they can volunteer to help you as they are able. Some gift can be given to them at the end of the week, in appreciation for the friendship and hospitality. The field personnel should discuss which gifts would be most appropriate and all visitors should agree to a similar standard.
Our Mission
CLIDE Consultancy’s mission is “To Empower Community Groups, Churches and Organizations For Sustainable Socio – Economic Transformation and Wholistic Healing Through an Integrated Livestock Development Approach”.
This Mission has several Key Phrases which define us and indicate the purposes for which we have created this Organisation:
- Empowering Community Groups, Churches and Orgaisations – As Consultants, we see our ministry focused on others. We exist to empower them to be all that the Lord has for them. We agree with the idea of John the Baptist, we will decrease, that they may increase. As we assist them to stand stronger, by building their capacity, their resources and their confidence, we hope that they are then enabled to move to a new level of organizational growth and productivity. These groups and organizations can include Community Associations, CBOs, NGOs, churches, Christian Ministries, etc.
- For Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation - Working with the poor and vulnerable, we strive for sustainable impact in the lives of those we work with. We focus our efforts on helping others to overcome psychological dependency, poverty and lack of skills such that they can grow towards living sustainable livelihoods and producing sustainable results.
- Wholistic Healing. We believe in dealing with the whole person, not just looking at their physical needs, but also understanding their spiritual, psychological, educational, social and economic needs, as they are all inter-related. As an evangelistic Christ-Centred organization, we will also endeavor to point people to Christ through our ministries and personal lives. We believe that this can have the biggest impact in transforming lives of those in the Community Groups and Organisations we serve.
- Through an Integrated Livestock Development Approach – We have seen over time that livestock are a vital element in the lives of the rural poor, providing a source of food as well as income, social status, traction, hides and skins and transport. Because of this vital role, we seek to use livestock as the entry point for our development interventions.
Our Core Values:
As Believers in our Lord Jesus Christ, we feel drawn to express our faith in our actions and in how we work out our ministries. The following values that we follow, which are the core foundation to our Team:
- Long Term Relationships. We desire to encourage one another and stimulate one another to love and good works through our relationships with each other and our beneficiaries.
- Spiritual Values. As a Christian NGO, dedicated to serving our Lord Jesus, we strive to demonstrate lives of worship and love in our relationships with one another, as well as with the communities and various groups, NGOs and Government workers. Christ is the centre of our Team and the Bible is our guide in ministry.
- Poverty Reduction. We follow Biblical mandate to care for the poor and needy.
- Capacity Building. We believe that the poor and needy will benefit the most through capacity building to give them greater opportunities for life change. We also believe that in order to provide quality services, we ourselves must develop our capacities as well.
- Integrity and Accountability. We desire to demonstrate holiness and righteousness in the ways that we do our finances and accountability.
- Quality Work. In all of our staffing and ministries we desire to strive to maintain high professional standards while ensuring cost effectiveness and sustainability in the general running of the organisation.
- Veterinary Focus. We use our veterinary skills as a entry point to development
- Partnership. We are consultants who desire to build up our partners and collegues.
- Social Transformation. We understand that at the heart of development is the need for a transformational movement which creates new paradigms for life and living.
- Team Spirit. We consider ourselves one body and strive to honour, support and encourage each part.
- Indigenous Knowledge. We believe that all people have valuable and valid knowledge and wisdom which can be used as a strong foundation on which to build their future development.
Our Ministries:
Based on these Values, we have developed many different ministries as a Team.
- 1. Livestock Programmes
- Training of Livestock Keepers and CAHWs (Community Animal Health Workers)
- Provision of Livestock Revolving Loans to OVC (Orphans and Vulnerable Children) and other Vulnerable Families and Widows
- Networking with UCVM and Makerere University Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in continuing veterinary education programmes
- Training, Research and Development of Ethno-Veterinary Medicines
- Agro-Forestry for herbal veterinary medicines
- 2. Children’s Programmes
a.Sponsorships for School Children
- Semi-Annual Spiritual Retreats for Sponsored Children
- c. Bible Clubs in schools
- Agriculture and Livestock Clubs and Projects in Schools
- 3. Peace Programmes
- Peace Building between Warring Tribes
- Medical Ministries in Peace Villages
- Water Projects in Peace Villages
- Agricultural Projects in Peace Villages
- 4. Spiritual Programmes
- Evangelistic Outreaches
- Development of Discipleship materials
- Discipleship training and empowerment
- 5. HIV/AIDS Education Programmes
- Training in HIV/AIDS
- Support for HIV/AIDS effected families
- 6. Micro-Enterprise Development
- Crafts
- Leather tanning
- 7. Disaster Relief and Food for Work
We welcome visitors to assist with any of these ministries and have seen excellent outcomes from joining our hearts together in these outreaches
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