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Our vision is to see rural Eastern Cape communities participating in robust redistributive economies that fully meet their livelihoods needs.
Mission
Transkei Land Services Organisation advocates for and facilitates equal, secured access to land and other natural resources to promote land rights and sustainable livelihoods for resource poor rural communities in the Eastern Cape.
Objectives
- Advocate and support the implementation of fair redistribution of agricultural land and resources (i.e. prudent application of agrarian reform)
- Provide intellectual and technical capabilities to rural communities and their institutions engaged in agrarian reform
- Explore and advance appropriate and innovative organisational forms and knowledge-based systems in rural development
- Implement and demonstrate innovative models of sustainable rural livelihoods and land use practices
- Support and promote local economic development of rural communities
Our Goals as an Organisation
- To ensure sound governance including, good corporate practice, effective leadership and management, prudent resource management and seamless programme management
- Broaden and deepen local democracy through local structures, cooperatives and cluster forums
- Building TRALSO as a centre of excellence for rural development practice
- Ensure accountability through participatory and continuous learning and reporting processes
- Enabling a culture of development that is both ‘people centred’ and ‘people driven’
- Effective bilateral and multilateral collaboration.
Core Values
Since its inception in 1991, the organization has projected itself as a progressive left force aligned with the mass democratic movement. In this tradition, having learnt lessons of the post-1994 context, TRALSO believes that genuine rural development in South Africa will only arise once the rural people are empowered to pursue diverse activities of social production and reproduction.
As an institution involved in transactional relationships with strategic partners and its clientele base, tralso aspires to live and be bound by the following values:
a) Diligence (self-driven management team, commitment to serving the people, assertive in representing the interests of the poor)
b) Promptness (responding to matters of public and citizens interests within reasonable time including acknowledging and keeping people informed of processes)
c) Integrity (transparency, honesty, good democratic ethics, impartial of matters of public good and interest and building an NGO that transcends political and social boundaries)
d) Accountability (responsible, taking ownership, discipline efficient and implanting a culture of a demand driven development paradigm)
e) Participative (building a reciprocal relationship between management and all internal stakeholders, between the board and administration, between TRALSO and her constituencies)
f) Responsive (building a service friendly organisational environment, ensuring a proactive, flexible, creative and quality conscious development paradigm)
g) Considerate (implanting a culture of compassionate, caring and emotional intelligent organisational environment that prioritizes its employees and local level beneficiaries)
h) Listening (building and implementing a culture of creative listening and implementation of the views of the rural people in policy and development that affects them.
Towards Success
TRALSO is a matured, tested, organisation that has gone through various cycles of growth. TRALSO aspires to be a modern, effective, learning organisation that demonstrates value to all its stakeholders.
TRALSO proposes to become a mutually respectful environment that attracts, develops and works with empowered, energetic professionals serving at its core. Coupled with this, TRALSO will develop a circle of ‘associates’ in consulting, academia and the broader social milieu who share its values and desire a means to make a contribution in helping us to meet our vision. .
In order to maintain the confidence of all stakeholders TRALSO will build systems to:
- Ensure proper oversight by its board of directors
- Build a culture of performance and accountability
- Anticipate, manage and mitigate risk in all aspects of its operation
- Maintain a good record of judicious management of resources
- Ensure institutional sustainability and
- Advance the questions surrounding the plight of our environment and mother earth
