PAPADEV - Partners in Participatory Development

PAPADEV is committed to a unique, community-driven development process that was designed by the organization’s founders. This community development process is grounded in a concept of development in which community-level change grows out of community members’ own identification of their development needs and their active participation in initiatives to address those needs. Within this conceptual framework, change occurs as community members become empowered to recognize in themselves, the responsibility to initiate development processes and the power to take advantage of opportunities to improve their living standards and well-being. This process of community empowerment, mobilization and action is catalyzed and facilitated by an external facilitator.

PAPADEV’s exists to inspire local communities to take advantage of opportunities in their environment and seek alternatives to improve their living standards. PAPADEV pursues this mission by facilitating local community members’ access to, and demand for, basic social services.

Our core values include the following: Partnership, Equity, Accountability and Resourcefulness.