Jamii Bora Development Initiative (JBDI)
Organization Background
Jamii Bora Development Initiative (JBDI) is an organization which is non-governmental (NGO), non-political registered on the 10th August 2019 under the NCOs Act of 2002, amended in 2005 and 2019 section 24. JBDI bears a registration and TIN numbers 00NGO/R/0456 respectively; having its headquarters at Nyabange Mennonite Mission, located in Butiama District, Mara Region. JBDI therefore belongs to the Kanisa la Mennonite Tanzania, (KMT) whose headquarters is in Musoma Municipality. It is equally a non-profit-making organization with the dream of working to create a society where the community respects the basic values of nature as a fundamental model to community development by preserving and protecting the natural environment.
Mission Statement
JBDI aims to bridge knowledge and skills gap by building capacity and facilitating communities based projects geared toward enhancing access to basic needs, clean and safe environment and to overcome poverty.
Vission Statement
To see a community that is empowered and transformed to live self – reliant and to access sustainable holistic livelihoods.
Organization Objectives
To enhance community awareness on preventive and curative communicable and non – communicable diseases.
To facilitate access to social services to people living with disabilities, elders, children and women access to better ways of overcoming their situational challenges.
To support sustainable agricultural projects for production of farm products for household subsistence and economic generation.
To advocate for ecological land use management on improved production and natural environment protection.
To capacitate and strengthen small income generating groups on entrepreneurship and capital management.
To promote participatory community ownership and nurture sustainability of development efforts.
To promote gender equality and development, to increase women economic empowerment.
What We do
Agriculture Program
Currently JBDI is implementing a comprehensive project known as Integrated Community Mobilization Program (ICMP) which is funded by Bread for the World from Germany. The project is supporting smallholder farmers in 12 villages within Mara region, also the promote gender issues in 7 secondary school in Butiama and Tarime District Councils.
Advocacy
JBDI has advocated for gender equality to enhance equal participation of men and women in group activities, resource utilization, equity sharing and increased women’s equal access to resources and capacity building initiatives. JBDI has continued to encourage and ensure women are involved in all development activities including leadership posts and decision making in the groups.
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