Providing sustainable economic solutions to our beneficiary’ communities is at the heart of Baywood Foundation. Our goals are to build capacity in at-risk communities, and find innovative ways they can add value. As part of meeting those objectives, we participate in construction of critical infrastructures that have economic potentials, provide visibility to the community, and ensure access.
Advocacy
We partner with stakeholders to push activities on access to employment opportunities, small business financing, and capacity building. In most communities these issues are neither understood, nor actively considered as most likely roadmap out of extreme poverty. Therefore the objective is to develop enough community support, and goodwill to deliver interventions along those concerns. However we constantly recognize that intervention objectives must be determined in partnership with intended beneficiaries.
Capacity Building
We believe that meaningful capacity building includes multiple stakeholders, an agreed goal, and long-term approach. to accomplish those, we partner strategically on education, leadership training, community-based business opportunity assessment, skills development and proposal writing. to ensure sustainability of our capacity building interventions, we encourage community groups, ngos, and local community volunteers to participate. Baywood foundation believes in paradigm shifting solutions, but in certain communities (given available data) the focus is basically around low hanging fruits. this allows such communities time to improve enough for ‘next phase interventions’.
Infrastructural Development
At Baywood Foundation we assist in the construction of critical infrastructures in at-risk communities. We do not engage in provision of public goods. However we target critical community infrastructures that have potentials to access external markets, attract state or national investments, as well as improve visibility of host communities. We partner with stakeholders to identify these infrastructures, and secure government approval for actual construction or reconstruction.