Long-term thematic priorities
Our Programmes
Programme areas
Trainings
Training
Distance and Online learning
Today, FLD provides the most demanded modules here to download and for self-learning use.
In the past, several organizations expressed a demand for distance learning to provide access to skills/training to community/social workers in Cambodia and Thailand. FLD responded to it by designing learning modules in different areas (“communication skills”, “Financial Planning” etc). Later on, FLD developed an expertise in online delivery and mixed-mode delivery (combination of online/face-to-face approaches) of these modules and implemented projects in Myanmar and Cambodia, including the training of local online tutors. The modules were also updated, modified to be more user friendly (use of multimedia).
On Demand Training
FLD can also design and implement training “on demand”
Consultancy
FLD provides expert consultancy for Project Design and Management, Capacity Building, Situation analysis:
- Strategic analysis
- Project review and evaluation
- Organisational development and capacity-building
- Project design and formulation
- Project proposal preparation
- Project-reporting services
Small Projects in Thailand
After its inception, FLD began exploring some specific areas of future activity in Thailand in which a small foundation could make a difference. FLD has hosted staff groups from a a number of community development organisations to some of the very interesting and innovative demonstration sites and project easily accessible from Chiang Mai. Some of these are associated with Thailand’s Royal Projects, others with universities and NGOs. FLD has committed to starting a small scale project that addresses the problem of urban waste, in particular to recycle urban food waste to make a useful organic fertiliser.
Meanwhile, during 2011 FLD established a working partnership with “Philanthropy Connections Foundation’ (PCF) a foundation registered in the Netherlands. PCF supports NGOs and ‘grassroots projects’ in several countries in Asia, and during 2011 assisted FLD to respond to the needs of two small projects in Thailand — providing solar panels for a small community of people displaced from Myanmar and living in a temporary shelter in Thailand, and providing funds to help an orphanage on the outskirts of Chiang Mai badly hit by flooding.
Participatory Community Development
Village-level development
FLD provides expert project consultancy services for village-level development activities:
- Participatory research and appraisal
- Forming and supporting Self-Help Women’s Groups
- Establishing rice banks, pig banks etc
- Adoption of organic farming methods
- Affordable technology for improving village infrastructure
The FLD village development approach emphasises participatory processes to improve household-level income with a focus on empowering women of poor households through Self-Help Women’s Groups. It also focuses on affordable technology and small village infrastructure, e.g. water and sanitation facilities, and efforts to improve access to basic health and education services