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COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 3. Developing community members’ economic and employment potential through leadership

training and empowerment tools, especially through initiatives for women, refugees, and young
Rotary supports investments in people and communities to alleviate poverty, creating measurable and
enduring economic improvements in poor and underserved areas. adults
4. Supporting small-business, cooperative, or social-enterprise development and income-generating

Area of Focus Statement of Purpose and Goals activities for the poor, including organizing area-wide businesses that provide employment
5. Furthering agricultural development for subsistence and small farmers, including building
TRF enables Rotarians to alleviate poverty by:
capacity and facilitating access to financial markets and capital
1. Building the capacity of local leaders, organizations, and networks to support economic 6. Organizing community-led and -coordinated adopt-a-village initiatives, or comprehensive
development in poor communities
community development activities
2. Developing opportunities for productive work and improving access to sustainable livelihoods
7. Supporting equal and effective economic opportunities for women, refugees, and other
3. Empowering marginalized communities by providing access to economic opportunities and marginalized populations
services
8. Providing access to renewable, clean, and efficient energy through sustainable, locally purchased,
4. Building the capacity of entrepreneurs, social businesses, and locally supported business and innovative technology, as well as substantial training directly connected to economic
innovators outcomes

5. Addressing gender or class disparities that prevent populations from obtaining productive work 9. Training communities in conservation and resource management to help them preserve, protect,
and accessing markets and financial services and sustainably use natural resources for their economic benefit and growth

6. Increasing access to renewable energy and energy-efficiency measures to create more sustainable 10. Improving communities’ ability to adapt to environmental and climatic changes through capacity-
and economically resilient communities building, and developing sustainable economic activities

7. Empowering communities to develop environmental and natural resource conservation skills for 11. Providing training and basic resources to support basic emergency preparedness initiatives and
economic gain enhance communities’ economic resilience, including fire prevention and natural disaster
8. Strengthening communities’ economic resilience and adaptive capacity in response to preparedness
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environmental and climate-related hazards and natural disasters

9. Developing and supporting community-based basic emergency preparedness services to improve TRF considers the following activities to be outside the scope of the community economic development
economic resilience area of focus and not eligible for global grant funding:

10. Funding graduate scholarships for career-minded professionals related to community economic 1. Community infrastructure or equipment projects without direct economic results, or without
development operational and maintenance plans

2. Community beautification projects such as parks and playgrounds
Parameters for Eligibility 3. Projects to rehabilitate community centers
TRF considers the following activities to be within the scope of the community economic development
area of focus:
Elements of Successful Humanitarian Projects and Vocational Training Teams
1. Providing poor communities with access to financial services, including microcredit, mobile
Community economic development global grants are:
banking, savings, and insurance
1. Sustainable — Communities can address their economic development needs after the Rotary club
2. Offering training related to community economic development, including entrepreneurship,
or district completes its work.
community leadership, vocational skills, and financial literacy
2. Measurable — Sponsors need to set targets and identify measurements to track project outcomes.
Standard measures are listed in the Global Grant Monitoring and Evaluation Plan Supplement.

5 Adaptive capacities refer to the social and technical skills of individuals and groups that allow them to respond 3. Community driven — Projects meet the needs identified by the host community.
effectively to environmental and socioeconomic changes.

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