Hello & Welcome to
Development Support
International
DSI is a Private Voluntary Organisation (PVO), legally registered in Zimbabwe in 2020. Registration Number: PVO75/20. Our areas of interest are: Water Sanitation and Hygiene, Basic Education, Food Security and Livelihoods, and Disaster Risk Management.
We aim to support communities unlock their potential to achieve dignified lives through resilience building, by contributing to poverty alleviation and mitigating the impact of disasters, through provision of appropriate support to communities to meet their basic needs.
We are committed to supporting local institutions to achieve community development goals.
Our Objectives
- To provide support to communities in need to address their Public Health, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) needs.
- To strengthen food security and sustainable livelihoods mechanisms.
- To facilitate Disaster Risk Reduction and Disaster Risk Management.
- To offer consultancy services to private and public sector institutions, including donors, NGOs, government and local authorities.
Our Objectives
- To provide support to communities in need to address their Public Health, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) needs.
- To strengthen food security and sustainable livelihoods mechanisms.
- To facilitate Disaster Risk Reduction and Disaster Risk Management.
- To offer consultancy services to private and public sector institutions, including donors, NGOs, government and local authorities.
Our Approach
The PEOPLE are supported to address their sustainable development needs: DSI is a people focused organization, concerned with the HUMAN STORY beyond the numbers of our deliverables.
EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE
Using best available evidence to make programmatic decisions. We will also endeavor to support local processes for:
Acquiring Evidence: systematically searching for and retrieving the evidence.
Appraising Evidence: critically judging the trustworthiness and relevance of the evidence
Aggregating Evidence: weighing and pulling together the evidence
Applying Evidence: incorporating the evidence into the decision-making process
ENABLING ENVIRONMENT
Supporting local institutions and systems strengthening to achieve community development goals
DSI anchors its success on bringing communities, local, regional and national systems into full partnership; and optimize available resources for making progress towards strong systems and institutions, to achieve optimum development results for the people
DSI responds to community needs and issues, and engage with affected and vulnerable groups, support direct services and advocate for improved programming and policy environments.
SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Depending on available resources, in partnership with communities and through Private Public Sector Partnerships (PPPs) DSI will endeavor to support the construction and maintenance of facilities that support social services. Types of social infrastructure include healthcare facilities, education and vocational training centres, public recreational facilities, community housing and water supplies, sanitation, hygiene and market facilities for local economic and social development