TYPES OF PROJECTS

A number of principles have been developed to guide the nature of projects to be undertaken:
  1. Projects to introduce an uplifted baseline standard for the neediest communities through resettlement.

  2. Settlements to have basic infrastructure established for, but not limited to, energy delivery, connectivity, communication, food management, community governance, religious accommodation, recreation, shared facilities, security, disaster recovery, hospitality, education and investment.

  3. Development of foundational infrastructure for tourism with hotels, guest-houses, festival venues, investment properties, restaurants, nature reserves, amusement parks, motorsports & eSports facilities, digital entertainment hubs, rehabilitation (mental and physical), supermarkets, museums, activity based experiences and recreational districts.

  4. The unique arts, culture and history of each community to be incorporated into the design of the community on every level.

  5. Low cost, high quality, scaleable solutions to be adopted as a baseline principle.

  6. Reliance on locally grown talent, skilled & unskilled labour, and solutions from own educational institutions as the development feeders across design, culture, music, art, hospitality, construction, technology, etc.

  7. Projects are to be delivered at no cost to the communities however these will require support and commitment to a role of governance and especially stewardship by the traditional head (or equivalent) of each area within which the development is to be undertaken.

  8. Expenditure will be tracked on a unit cost basis and calculated on a multiplier model. As a simplistic illustration, if one house is estimated to cost $5k, then 10 houses should cost $50k.

  9. Training programs will be established for niche skillsets to create a human resource of highly capable, skilled teams to deliver the unique needs of the projects and to train others with the continental level capacity building in mind.

  10. Some projects will have a profit-making component which will return profits to; the community through jobs created, to a maintenance fund and to the local establishment of traditional leadership.

Presently, the only hope for underprivileged communities to achieve development rests in the hands of the governments, aid organisations, religious organisations and multinational organisations, to name a few. Africa Assemble aims to pick up some of the slack.