Building Local Capacity

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"If you teach a person to fish..."

Empowering communities to create lasting mechanisms of empathic care and support through play and laughter. 

Clowns Without Borders has local capacity building projects in KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland and Lesotho. We focus on developing community based organisations (CBOs) ability to empower communities to support themselves providing psychosocial support to vulnerable children and their guardians through the Njabulo HIV/AIDS Residency Programme. 

Our capacity building strategy has a 7 stage approach:

1. Introduction - CWBSA performs for schools and centres in community based organisation's area of focus introducing the clowns to the children and community members.

2. Observation - CWBSA staff implement 10-day Njabulo HIV/AIDS Residency Programme with CBO staff observing. Followed by a 5-day training for staff.

3. Assistance - CBO staff assist CWBSA in a residency followed by an additional 5-day staff training.

4. Mentorship - CBO staff implement Njabulo Residency with CWBSA staff assisting and mentoring during the process. Followed by a 5-day training.

5. Independence - CBO staff implement 10-week Njabulo Residency independently.

6. Assessment - CWBSA staff assess capacity of CBO's ability to implement sessions.

7. Enhancement - CWBSA provides additional training to CBO for follow-up sessions and support group creation.

We are currently creating a facilitator's manual to aid NGOs and CBOs in sustainable implementation and expansion of our intervention methods. 

For more information, please contact us!