A Success Story: The Etafeni Trust Fit for - SAfAIDS

• Secure funding for day to day expenses, and base your lobbying to the
donor on the needs and commitment ascertained in the above step
• Set up criteria for entry into the programme, and include considerations for
special groups e.g. young women or other disadvantaged groups as per the
needs identified in your community
• Ensure that the space for training is ample and in a clean, friendly and
spacious place, conducive to learning and sharing
• Ensure that adequate , well-trained, good facilitators, are available for the
set training calendar
• Set dates for a ‘training-calendar’, which will suit the community
• Adapt the curriculum
to suit the needs of your community and be creative and innovative
in integrating issues beyond just economic empowerment, and SRH.
Explore other areas of economic empowerment, which best suit your
community needs, it may, for instance, not be an advantage to have a
driver’s license in your community, it may be better to have IT skills or
accounting skills
to speak to issues beyond formal employment, but also ‘how to survive
on your own’ – looking at entrepreneurial pursuits and non-formal
employment. In the advent of the graduate being unable to secure a
job post-training immediately, they will then not become demoralised
and can pursue other innovative avenues of making a decent living
Phase 4: Once the basics are set-up you can begin to implement, by:
• Sending out a call for applicants, after designing an advert which shares the
criteria and qualifications needed from the applying candidates
• Set dates for the training, and ensure they fall within time periods that are
best suited for community members, for instance not over long holidays
or farming/harvest periods as your potential candidates may be otherwise
engaged
• Host the trainings using an approved curriculum
• Host a formal graduation, making it a big community event and inviting
parents/guardians, community leaders, service providers, donors, service
providers (health, agriculture, youth), government representatives. Utilise
this platform as a marketing event and also to showcase the good work
being done by the intervention. Make it a fun day.
• Offer post-production support in various ways
Link with employment agencies
Offer suitable positions in the implementing organisation as interns or
volunteers
Guide with moral and group support
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