Sectors

NCONGO is concerned with sustainable social & economic development on issues of Health,HIV/AIDS and Covid-19, Conservation & Livelihood, Gender & Disability, Orphans & Vulnerable Children and Youth & Arts

Conservation & Livelihood Sector

This sector exists to build a Ngamiland society that is eco-sensitive, guarantees equitable access to wealth creation opportunities, develop a culture that places premium on the protection of the environment and indigenous knowledge as well as focusing attention of both public and private sector on issues that promotes sustainable use of natural resources in the development process.

Its general purpose is to advise and assist the NCONGO Board in ensuring that NCONGO is aware of, and it is appropriately responding to systematic institutional and societal trends and their impact on the environment.

The role of Conservation and Livelihoods sector is:

Advocacy and lobbying
Promote joint design and implementation of projects that identify and address environmental trends, issues and concerns
Promote environmental mainstreaming across all NCONGO committees
Build awareness, understanding and commitment to climate change adaptation and mitigation
Facilitate communication and networking for improved lessons learnt and best practice dissemination
Strengthen organizational capacity (government, planning and management)

Terms of Reference (TOR)

The detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) for this sector includes amongst others;

Developing sector advocacy and lobbying strategies
Resource mobilization for sector activities
Developing concept notes around cross cutting trends and issues
Conduct a baseline district survey of knowledge/attitudes about conservation and climate change
Develop and implement knowledge based and demand driven awareness campaigns on conservation and climate change issues
Identify cultures and indigenous knowledge for preservation

NCONGO Member Organization for Conservation & Livelihood Sector:

Health, HIV/AIDS & Covid-19 Sector

This sector brings together an array of CSOs that are either direct health service providers or form a support system for the services provided. It enhances the national efforts and interventions on combating HIV/AIDS and other health issues. The sector has also been recently been introduced to Covid-19 and organizations across the health sectors have incorporated on to their daily operations.
The purpose of the HIV/AIDS & Covid-19 sector is to bring together and
coordinate efforts of the health and HIV/AIDS service providers as well as to
come up with innovative partnerships between CSOs and strategic partners that will work to improve the health delivery services in the district.

The role of the Health, HIV/AIDS and Covid-19 Sector is:

Advocacy (rights of the clients)
Funding (resource mobilization)
Promotion of health in the district
Coordinating member activities
Sharing of resources
Communicating and networking
Programming
Sharing lessons learnt
Information dissemination
Monitoring and Evaluation
Empowerment of membership
i.e. Trainings
Collaboration
Government of Botswana
Development partners
Provide technical advice to NCONGO secretariat

The detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) for this sector includes amongst others;

Ensure coordination, harmonization and implementation of the national response on HIV/AIDS and other health issues
Advocate for the development/reviews of policies, legislation and guidelines on health and HIV/AIDS
Provide technical advice and guidance to NCONGO secretariat, DMSAC and NCONGO membership
Mobilize and leverage resources for the implementation of the health and HIV/AIDS district response
Ensure monitoring and evaluation of sector plans and activities
Regularly deliberate on emerging issues on health and HIV/AIDS and make recommendations to relevant stakeholders

NCONGO Member Organization for Health, HIV/AIDS & Covid-19 Sector:

Orphans & Vulnerable Sector

The NCONGO OVC Sector is charged with the responsibility of handling CSO response to all matters relating to the total wellbeing and development of children of Ngamiland. It is also charged with giving advice
to formulating policies, carrying out programs and projects towards the realization of the rights of children to survival, proper development, protection and participation.
An orphan in this context refers to a child below 18 years who has lost one (single parent) or (married couple) biological/adoptive parents.

A vulnerable child is a person below 18 years who is in any situation or
circumstance which is or likely to adversely affect his/her physical,
emotional, psychological or general well being which prevents the enjoyment of his or her rights and who is in need of protection.

Purpose:

To serve as the district vehicle to build an Ngamiland Society devoid of discrimination, that guarantees equal access to opportunities, develop a culture that places premium on the protection of the OVC, and focuses attention of both public and private sector on issues that promote full participation of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC), gender & disability in the national developments.

The role of the Orphans and Vulnerable Sector is:

Identify training needs
Develop a flaagship program – Highlight OVC needs/ anything OVC related
Coordinate membership efforts
Partnerships
Networking and Communication

The detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) for this sector includes amongst others;

Ensure coordination, harmonization and implementation of the North West District and national response on orphans and vulnerable children in Ngamiland.
Develop an annual sector workplan with timelines
Advocate for the development / review of policies, legislations and guideline for district and national OVC’s intervention.
Define a district care and support package for OVC in Ngamiland.
Ensure monitoring and evaluation of the sector response at all levels.
Resource mobilisation for the sector annual workplan
Provide or co-opt the relevant technical expertise needed for the successful implementation of the district OVC response.
Ensure effective multi-dimensional and multisectoral district OVC’s response
Regularly deliberate on emerging issues on OVC and make recommendations to the S&CD and other stakeholders.

NCONGO Member Organization for Orphans & Vulnerable Sector:

Gender & Disability Sector

To build a Ngamiland society devoid of gender based or disability based discrimination, that guarantees equal access to wealth creation opportunities, develop a culture that places premium on the protection of the all members of the community, and focuses attention of both public and private sector on issues that promote full participation of men and women regardless of their disabilities in the national development process. And also to serve as the district vehicle to bring about speedy and healthy development of the Ngamiland men and women and people with main stream of the district and national development process.

The Role of the Gender and Disability Sector

Welfare, upliftment and economic empowerment and survival of men and women including equalization of opportunities for people living with disabilities
Coordinate the efforts of the committee membership
Promotion of human rights for men, women and people living disabilities.
Developing appropriate response action plan to gender and disability issues
Ensuring effective implementation, coordination and evaluation of programmes
Promote Advocacy and Lobbying at community, district and national level for the development/review of policies and legislators
Ensure effective communication and joint planning amongst committee members and relevant stakeholder.

The detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) for this sector includes amongst others;

Ensure coordination, harmonization and implementation of the North West District and national response on Gender and Disability
Evolve a timeframe for the development and implementation of district strategic plan on
Gender and Disability and ensure the mainstreaming of Gender and Disability into macro-economic strategies.
Give guidance and advice the relevant district committees on Gender equality and Disability and direct the technical working groups on all issues relating to the coordination, harmonization and implementation of district response on Gender equality and Disability
Ensure the development/review of policies, legislations and guideline for district and national Gender equality and Disability’s interventions.
Define a district care and support package for Gender equality and Disability in Ngamiland.
Ensure monitoring and the implementation of the district response at all levels.
Mobilize and leverage resources for the implementation of the Gender equality and Disability’s district response.
Provide or co-opt the relevant technical expertise needed for the successful implementation of the national Gender equality and Disability responses.
Ensure effective multi-dimensional and multi-sectoral district Gender and Disability and Disability responses
Regularly deliberate on emerging issues on Gender equality and Disability and make recommendations to the local authorities.

NCONGO Member Organization for Gender & Disability Sector:

Youth & Arts Sector

This sector will form part of a broader youth participation strategy in which a range of various mechanisms will be established to facilitate greater input and involvement by young people in the area. The participation mechanisms that will compliment this sector may include local neighborhood youth forums and committees.

The youth sector aims to provide a platform for youth oriented organizations to advocate to a diverse range of young people who are reflective of the community they represent.

The role of the Youth and Arts sector is:

Ensuring the active involvement of young people in development and decision making processes at both district and national level
To ensure that work undertaken and decisions made at the district links with the work undertaken by the network of youth organizations at national level.
To build confidence and skills of the members of the committee by resourcing them to be competent spokespeople on behalf of their needs, issues and interests of the diverse population of Ngamiland youth.

The detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) for this sector includes amongst others;

To ensure that the information used to make decisions is representative of the diversity of young people that make up the youth population in Ngamiland.
To actively involve young people through their organizations in developing and implementing strategies that addresses the issues affecting young people in Ngamiland.
To create opportunities for local young people through their representative organizations to input into Ngamiland decision making process.
Ensure the development/review of policies, legislations and guidelines for district and national youth interventions.
Mobilize and leverage resources for the implementation of the youth district response

NCONGO Member Organization for Youth & Arts Sector:

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