Its' primary focus is to improve the livelihood of residents in marginalized communities. KSAAF is a voluntary group that grew out of the UNDP supported Civic Dialogue initiative in November 2004. The Dialogue process facilitated the voices of and gave support to a variety of community development social activists that came together with the agenda for “better communities, better Jamaica”, with th
e support of partners. KSAAF is a unique group by virtue of our proven ability to provide a non-partisan community voice, and to bring together persons/communities of different political, social and economic persuasions and have earned the trust of our member communities. The group comprises is of persons from fifty-three (53) urban communities across the Kingston Metropolitan Region (KMR) and (recently) St. KSAAF is empowered by a workforce of employees, volunteers and its governance structure. The management structure comprises of the elected officer Core and other Board members. KSAAF facilitates leadership development through the training of leaders from local communities in conflict resolution and community development strategies. To date, KSAAF has coordinated the training for members in 35 communities, in numerous areas, such as youth leadership, capacity building, administration, facilitation, mediation, and career guidance. We reinforce the work of our employees and Board members by providing training for continued professional and personal development as such making them prepared to handle the challenges and become facilitators themselves in the communities they serve. KSAAF also focuses on planning of social development programmes and managing the work of our Zone Officers who are Community Development Practitioners in the communities. KSAAF also plans, organizes and participates in the activities designed for the communities. There are other programmes with specific focus which encourages and facilitates corporation and interaction from people in communities of various interests who might not have met on a mutual understanding otherwise. These programmes include the Peace Cup, Guns off the Street Campaign, Town Hall Meetings, High Grade, Summer Camps, Facilitating the training of persons with HEART Trust and Facilitating placement of National Youth Service Participants. The Business Center is the business arm of KSAAF which provides technology related services. These services include the design and sale of all forms of printed material such as clothes, calendar, badge, Ids, photocopy, documents, scanning, programmes and Cyber café among other options. The Business center is intended to raise funds to subsidize the salaries and other costs of the individuals employed to KSAAF.
