JSIF APPLICATIONS
Projects considered for funding by JSIF can comprise a mix of supporting components from the list below, or other project type as agreed with funding agencies.
Infrastructure
Includes the rehabilitation, expansion, construction or equipping of:
- Early childhood development centres, primary and all age schools
- Small road in agricultural areas, bridge approaches, small bridges, foot bridges, retaining walls, drains
- Urban access roads.
- Gullies
- Small scale water schemes
- Sanitation
- Health centres
- Community resource centres
- Skills training centres
- Facilities for tourism product enhancement
- Play and recreation areas
- Sports facilities
- Community markets
Social Services
- Vocational skills training, market awareness, entrepreneur skills
- Job separation counselling, employment profiling, personal development, job preparation skills
- Literacy
- Personal money management
- Conflict resolution, anger management
- Parenting skills, adolescent/adult life skills
- Trauma and bereavement counselling
- Health and hygiene behaviour change
- Construction site skills
- Substance abuse counselling
Capacity Building
- Organizational development
- Planning and management
- Communication skills and basic conflict resolution
- Fund raising and financial management
- Governance
- Disaster preparedness
- Maintenance
Special Projects
- Projects for special/vulnerable groups, for example, homes and shelters, training for persons with disabilities, the elderly, abandoned children, street people.
- Projects of an innovative nature, which may yield new, replicable approaches to poverty alleviation.
- Projects that promote best practices through awareness and capacity building.
JSIF has limited resources to fund community projects. In order to ensure that our interventions benefit the largest possible number of persons, highly accurate indicators have been developed. These help to identify communities where there is greatest need. A series of indicators are used. They include: the Poverty Map supported by the Social Development Commission’s (SDC) database of communities, the Planning Institute of Jamaica’s (PIOJ) annual Survey of Living Conditions and field visits by Social Development staff.
The following criteria makes a community project eligible for funding:
- The community must be poor
- The project must be on the list of eligible projects
- The project must respond to a priority development need supported by the majority of the community
- The project must be proposed by a community-based group, either on its own or in partnership with NGOs, service clubs, private sector or local government entities
- The community must be willing to provide a contribution to the total cost of the project in cash or kind
- The community must be committed to maintaining the facility/service
JSIF cannot fund:
- The purchase or lease of land or buildings
- Construction on private land without relevant land documents
- Recurrent costs such as salaries, maintenance, utilities
- Projects sponsored by an individual
- All relevant sections of the form are accurately completed.
- They include evidence that the decision on the community priority need was taken by the largest number of persons possible from the community.
- The Application form is signed and dated.