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About FCR

FCR contributes to both community and civil society participation through the promotion of participatory processes that address the priority needs of marginalized and impoverished communities.

FCR strives to support and build capacities of such communities and civil society leadership and structures to undertake any form of local development they decide upon.

Organisational Renewal

2009 heralds 20 years that FCR has formally been in existence.

A key factor for the continued existence of the organisation has been that its development approach and strategy continues to evolve to respond to the current development context. During 2009 FCR again embarked on an important strategic review process to critically reappraise the organisation's development approach and strategy given the significant impact of the changing socio-political landscape and the economic recession on the communities we work with.

"In hindsight, we have learned once again, like so many other agents of development before, we cannot give people development through giving them products, but that we should focus on action that will take away the impediments to their own development in terms of their needs"

Prof. J Burger
FCR Chairperson

As a result of this strategic review process, FCR has introduced the single integrated programme, the Community Leadership and Civil Society Capacity Building Programme. This programme uses an intervention process model where learning, action and research are all integrated within the process.

FCR will focus on capacity building as its main prerogative because of the great value achievable through these initiatives.