KAPINZAL - At a Glance & Its Governance Brief

Kapinzal's Operating State 

Kapinzal Social Foundation was formerly known as Kapinzal Club, which was formed in the year 1998 in South District of Sikkim and after gaining a couple of years of up and downs experiences in development field, it had been registered formally in the year 2000 under Societies Registration Act 1860. With an enormous motive to work for millennium development goal, during the year 2013 – 14 the Governing body with its all the members of General body has decided to change its name formally as Kapinzal Social Foundation. The foundation is dedicated to develop an optimal mechanism for rural society, mainly the disadvantaged sections. It has been founded and managed by a team of young professionals with commitment to improve the quality of life by sustainable development with socioeconomic changes. It aims to achieve the goal through effective implementation of the rural development programs utilizing the local resources with people centric approach.

      

Foreign Researchers in Kapinzal's Field

Kapinzal Social Foundation is a facilitator platform developed by young educated spirits of Sikkim playing a decisive role in mainstream social issues across the state. It is able to achieve the milestones with the help of devoted and expert team. By casting local communities with its team, its efforts are now successful and reflected in the visible positive changes.The NGO plays role of a catalyst in institutional development, which strategies are focused and well planned to achieve the desired objectives. Implementation process has been executed through a series of meeting and awareness campaigns etc. involving the target community to render better results. Now the team is in process to discover new horizons to achieve our ultimate goal that is to bring the deprived classes in the mainstream by improving the socio – economic condition of rural community basically. It strives for innovative solutions to combat social issues. The problems faced by rural unprivileged classes are the inspiration of its endeavor.

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Governance cum Management

There is an Executive Committee comprising nine members with exceptional key developmental quality background specifically in promotion and development of backward / disadvantage society. The Committee with 1/3^rd of female members used to finalizes by the General body of the organization for a period of three years. Other than the Executive Committee, there is a team with enthusiastic quality, educated and qualified, spirited as development practitioners looking after the managerial cum administrative section professionally as well as another group of full timers working with zeal in general, who are taking care of and carrying out all the works with participatory action in field systematically as transparently. Kapinzal Social Foundation is more accountable with its system and vision somehow. All its activities are maintaining professionally as distinctly as transparently through proper Management Information System and advance book keeping and accounting method. 

Vision

To make Sikkim a Healthy and Prosperous State. 

Responding and to fulfill the vision statement of the organization, the Foundation has strategically expected to be developed and promoted the following wings near future, by which its positive effort can be brought forward to the society in development sustainable with systematic approach. 

A state level resource center for Water & Sanitation, Zero Waste Management  

A resource center for training and capacity building especially in Natural Resource Management together with other related activities for field functionaries of GO's/NGO's/Cooperatives.

Agriculture and allied research laboratory

Design and implement rural livelihoods program for enhancing Rural Economy

A systematic community lending institution trough promotion and introducing micro finance movement.

Good contacts, liaison and working relationship with NGOs/GOs, banks and other leading institutions working for the cause of socio economic development.

As a resource center will offer consultancy and training and capacity building support to government and other NGOs in the participatory technology development. 

Mission

Is to develop an optimal mechanism for rural society, especially disadvantaged sections, with commitment for sustainable livelihood and improved quality of life, which is achieved through different developmental key income generating activities and effective application of local resources in association with the community we serve. The following basic indicators guiding us with loyalty:-

Educate the peoples about dangerous diseases, disasters and environment.

Provide skill development training and knowledge for poor people.

Help poor people to develop their source of income.

Support poor people to create need based low cost assets.

Work to create Sikkim as a Complete Sanitation State.

Work  for the women to uplift their status and empowerment.

Work for the children to make a good citizen in their future.

Create awareness on environment for savior of environment.

Objectives

Kapinzal Social Foundation works for the cause and care of deprived rural societies and improve their quality of life professionally. It is integrating its programs and services, and consciously moving from welfare towards development and long term sustainability for rural communities as because the community's active involvement and support in rural development action makes the program sustainable as well as the platform by which they are availing facilitation.

Its objectives involve

To improve the socioeconomic condition of the small and marginalized section of the community particularly poorest of the poor, youth and women through various integrated rural development initiatives and innovations.

To develop and implement poverty focus participatory approach in agriculture & allied, livestock, watershed development, community mobilization and build them professionally, which is sustainable and can be re-applicable to other areas of its interest.

To establish village base institutions such as society, saving and thrift credit group, SHGs etc for strengthening the process of participatory development.

To setup knowledge center for the rural peoples in the areas of agriculture/allied and watershed development also other aspects of natural resource base livelihoods.

To promote organic production and their marketing in the area of agriculture.

To build up the capacity of community for self-reliant so that they can be able to identify their problems and self develop the solution through team spirit.

We advocate firm social changes by adopting well planned strategies and need based approaches. 

Identifying the target areas and working for them systematically is our major goal.

Strategy & Approaches

Promoting village institutions.

Bottom up planning process.

We believe in doing ourselves.

Using Participatory community based management approach.

Innovation and knowledge building in natural resource management.

Develop liaison and Linkages with Government/donor/PRIs, etc.

Capacity building of community and development practitioners.

Strength

Its strength is its devotion, enthusiasm and our zeal.

Its team posses professionals hailing from various fields.

A decade of successful experience in working.

It has a team of young professionals with multidisciplinary specialization.

Emphasis on grass root level mobilization and village institutions, it has excellent working relationship with government departments achieving good end results.

Good working network.

Infrastructure, faculty and other facilities available for training on various developmental issues.

Recognized for high quality work and timely achievement of stipulated activity.

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