The main work of CDOs concentrates on ASM’s organizational development, including bench marking, short and long term planning, record keeping system, self monitoring methods, committee-sub committees formation and mobilization plan, cooperative formation, project-partners sharing and planning method development and preparation of immediately needed organizational policies for ASM NGOs. Bottom-up participatory planning, implementation, facilitation, documentation is introduced and applied all the time. Please download: brief introduction.

In order to achieve the project objective of community development and streghtening of institutional strucrure, the SAM project invited an international expert in community development, Mr. Birkha Chhetry, Community Development Consultant, MinErgy Pvt. Ltd, Nepal. Main objective of his mission was to further develop and strengthen the capacities of SAM and its staffs including the mandated NGOs, and to develop elements for a comprehensive foundation for SAM’s community development activities and their integration into the overall project activities. The major tasks of the mission were to support on coaching, planning, implementation, monitoring and documentation of the ASM NGOs and Component activities relating it to the capacity building of CD Team. From these tasks, it was expected the finalization of draft YOP 2009, Action Plan of all project sites, a clear direction for the future CD activities. The duration of this mission was six months, starting from 1st December 2008 to 31st May 2009. Please find detailed mission report.

How to effectively manage artisanal miners' NGO meetings: please find A Guideline for managing Miners' NGO Meeting.

SOME USEFUL PLANNING AND MONITORING FORMATS for ARTISANAL SMALL-SCALE MINERS' ASSOCIATION/NGOs and SAM PROJECT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OFFICERS (CDOs): These formats are developed for establishing systematic planning in ASM NGO as well as to develop the capacity of Project Community Development Officers’ (CDO) on facilitating systematic planning. These formats are mainly designed for self planning and monitoring purpose for the organizations and staff who are newly established and mobilized. Formats are developed based on the experience of field needs and existing capacity level.