OUR APPROACHES AND METHODOLOGY

CSLD’s believes in partnership and comparative approaches to Poverty Reduction and Local Economic Development (LED) and seeks to build a strong network of partners both locally and internationally who share the core value of supporting the processes of change and transformation in the most deprived part of Ghana.

CSLD is a learning and innovative organization with the firm believe that; (i) there is no one best way of doing things and (ii) with hind sight, there are always lots of things one would do differently. Consequently, we are please to blend our experience and knowledge of the local contexts with the methodology of our donors expertly to fit into the local specificities. In the past 3 years however, CSLD has used a five (5) step model involving;

1. Identifying hardcore poor (peasant farmers, food crop primary processors and marketers).
   
   
2. Priming them into Farmer Based Organizations (FBOs) and using the FBOs as vehicles for accessing credits, inputs and technology.
   
   
3. Building their capacity in;
   a. Organizational development to make them cohesive, well governed and sustainable.
   
   b. Technical capacity building in crop production, processing and marketing to make them competitive and
   
   c. Business development training to sharpen their business management and entrepreneurial skills.

4. Providing input and or credit support for business start-up and