RSCSD is acronym for “Roundtable Support for Community Self-Development”. It is a business and development solutions marketplace platform targeted at Nigeria’s Niger Delta rural communities. In 2008, the government of Rivers State adopted RSCSD and customized it on a Rivers State scale as the “Rivers State Stakeholders Conference for Sustainable Development”.
RSCSD was born out of a threatening urgency to grow local capacity for sustainable human-centered and ecologic-sensitive development among communities and stakeholders. RSCSD runs an annual 12-month cycle of business and development work inaugurated at an annual weeklong gathering. After the gathering comes real “conferencing”. After all stakeholders step out of the venue, a critical follow-up cycle of development work begins in our communities where the real work must be done, with outcomes reported back at the next year’s gathering. read more...