Eligible Projects

Projects considered for funding by JSIF can comprise a mix of supporting components from the list below, or other project type as agreed with funding agencies.

 

Infrastructure

Includes the rehabilitation, expansion, construction or equipping of:

  • Early childhood development centres, primary and all age schools

  • Small road in agricultural areas, bridge approaches, small bridges, foot bridges, retaining walls, drains

  • Urban access roads

  • Gullies

  • Small scale water schemes

  • Sanitation

  • Health centres

  • Community resource centres

  • Skills training centres

  • Facilities for tourism product enhancement

  • Play and recreation areas

  • Sports facilities

  • Community markets

Social Services

  • Vocational skills training, market awareness, entrepreneur skills

  • Job separation counselling, employment profiling, personal development, job preparation skills

  • Literacy

  • Personal money management

  • Conflict resolution, anger management

  • Parenting skills, adolescent/adult life skills

  • Trauma and bereavement counselling

  • Health and hygiene behaviour change

  • Construction site skills

  • Substance abuse counselling

Capacity Building

  • Organizational development

  • Planning and management

  • Communication skills and basic conflict resolution

  • Fund raising and financial management

  • Governance

  • Disaster preparedness

  • Maintenance

Special Projects

  • Projects for special/vulnerable groups, for example, homes and shelters, training for persons with disabilities, the elderly, abandoned children, street people.

  • Projects of an innovative nature, which may yield new, replicable approaches to poverty alleviation.

  • Projects that promote best practices through awareness and capacity building.