Adequate staffing capacity will prove critical to FORGE's success at helping communities in southern DRC restablize after war. This initiative will allow us to place one new Site Manager (international staff) and one new Program Coordinator (local staff) in FORGE's Field Office in Moba, Democratic Republic of Congo. These key employees will provide the necessary capacity to facilitate the launch of six locally-designed and implemented community programs over the next two years.
FORGE's extensive baseline surveys and data collection has revealed a strong potential for FORGE's work to impact the post-conflict populations in southern DRC: there are currently no organizations using a participatory-planning model like FORGE's Collaborative Project Planning Process in the entire Katanga region. In order to adequately provide basic leadership development and social entrepreneurial education, FORGE must hire, train, and place at least two more staff members to facilitate its programming in 2010.
