Bachelor of Community Services Project: NT Homeless Youth (17-25)

This project proposal outlines a community development initiative focused on addressing homelessness among young people aged 17-25 in the Northern Territory. The project, seeking $20,000 USD in funding over 10 months, aims to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals by improving the life expectancy and living conditions of homeless youth. It addresses the issue by identifying needs, implementing strategies, and engaging stakeholders. The project's approach includes identifying homeless individuals, establishing a project timeline, and outlining stakeholder roles, including government and international partners. The proposal also details risk analysis, mitigation measures, and sustainability strategies, ensuring the project's long-term impact. The project's implementation involves various methods of data collection and monitoring to ensure that the project is effectively combating the issue of homelessness. Annexes provide detailed information on results frameworks, project timelines, and risk analysis. The project seeks to empower stakeholders and beneficiaries through awareness, education, and access to essential services, ultimately improving the lives of vulnerable youth and contributing to a more sustainable community.

Running head: HOMELESS PEOPLE IN THE NORTH TERRITORY BETWEEN THE
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Homeless People in The North Territory Between The Age Group Of 17 25 Years

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1. Project information
Project title Homeless people in the Northern territory between the age group of 17 years to 25
years.
Duration in months: 10 months
Total funding
requested
20,000 USD
Donor/Funding
Source
Action Aid
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Rationale and background
2.2 Sustainable Development
Goals
The project regarding the Homeless people in the northern territory
will be a major area that will help the government of Australia and
again contribute to the 2030 Agenda and SDGs since it will be the
guideline for the two sides to make improvements in their respective
areas. Being a guideline too on the area of improvement the life
expectancy of the people in the category of 17-25 years will be high.
Improvement of amenities like housing will increase the life
expectancy of the people in the mentioned category. This is because
homelessness has its roots from the ill health of the people in the
society.
2.3 Overall purpose and
relevance
(including needs, issues, and
baselines)
The project is imperative since it is going to assist the SDGs in making
informed decisions that will improve the life expectancy of the young
people in the category of 17-25 years. This project will focus and address
the homelessness by making the urban centres safe and secure for young
people. This project will assist in identification of the initiatives and the
social impacts that may have contributed to homelessness of people in the
northern territory. This will in return lead to the achievement of a
sustainable economy. Through the coverage of this project, the less
fortunate people in the society who form part of the population of homeless
youth in the north territory may get informed on the available opportunities
to improve their lives (Baranovichi, 2013).
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The project will focus on both male and female and identify the common
factor of the two genders.
2.4 Impact The project may bring other interested donors who may at the
forefront in ensuring that the socially disadvantaged people in the
society get the best from their investment and bring about new
opportunities that people can engage to and earn their living. When
people are actively involved in projects that help them earn a living,
cases of drug abuse and alcohol reduce in a greater margin. This is
because the people involved on a daily basis may not get time to
involve themselves in unproductive acts. This project also
contributes to the changing of people’s lives as cases of even theft
and criminal decreases. The other area that changes the lives of
people is through the provision of essential services like schools that
will be highly embraced.
Approach
2.5 Implementation
One of the implementation strategies that will be key in the selection and
in the identification of the outcome indicators that at the end to
showcase the impact that occurs. The approach will involve the
identification of homeless people and their key outcomes. There can be
also a shared framework to review the outcomes of the project. The
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project outcome is fruitful through engagement with the stakeholders so
that appropriateness can be there. This project will also ensure that there
are a shared means of communication and people understand both
indicators outcomes across the sector (Dempsey, 2014). In addition, the
development of effective and inclusive organization structures that are
decentralized will improve the community response thus positive
collaboration. Another way is the implementation of facilities that are
self-identified and that consider gender preference. The other key
approach is through the improvement of the homeless people receipt of
benefits. This is in regard to their access to mainstream services.
2.6 Project timeline The duration of the project will be around 10 months.
2.7 Stakeholders:
Beneficiaries and
partners
The direct beneficiaries will be the poor as they may get decent
opportunities to earn their living. The key partners in this project would
be the cities that involved and most affected by homelessness. The
government will also collaborate to provide reliable data that which for
reference in combating the issue of homelessness. The government is a
key partner also provides programs that get support from external and
foreign grants. The other partners include the volunteers who may work
even in prevention of homelessness (Fuchsia, 2008).
The problem of homelessness affects the government even being key
stakeholders as people are not actively involved in the growth of the
country but instead young people find themselves in unproductive acts.
The stakeholder will come up with ways of identifying better channels of
preventing homelessness and in designing ways to assist the already
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homeless population (Ansari, 2016). The stakeholders and partners should
raise awareness on the training on the staff who offer the homeless with
the services. This will help in the sustainability of the project.
The key stakeholders ensure that the direct beneficiaries have all the
know-how and knowledge that educate them on their rights even as
homeless people, importance of education to access opportunities and
how to express their interests (Goetz et al., 2016).
2.8 Risk analysis and
mitigation
Risk analysis and mitigation measures are given in ANNEX C.
2.9 Sustainability and
exit strategy
Empowering the cities and other stakeholders on their responses to the people
affected by homelessness. The other way that is also paramount in the
sustainability of the benefits of the project is through monitoring the progress of
each department that reduces or in any other way prevent homelessness.
After the funding of the project, the government will take up the responsibility
for the continuation of the prevention measures of homelessness. In this way, the
government will come up with departments that will assign responsibilities at
different levels to ensure homelessness ends or reduces at all costs.
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3. Project Management
3.1 Project management
and implementation
The key stakeholders like the SDGs and National government in the northern
territory will be accountable for the output of the project activities. The other key
people who will be at the forefront are the partners especially the international
partners who do the grants (Perales, 2016).
N° Name or type of partner Role
1 Public partner-the government To ensure that there is the security of the
homeless and there is no misappropriation of
funds allocated to prevent homelessness.
+ Add Private international partners Bring expertise in combating of homeless and
advises even the government on the best ways to
reduce the rural to the urban influx of people
especially the youth.
3.2 Monitoring The government is the central point of all the operations of even those
activities that involve the partners will be mandated to measure and monitor
the project success. The key stakeholders can come up with ways of
monitoring the progress of the project through the establishment of criteria
that will define who is eligible for the services or not. This will in return
improve the capability and capacity of the programs that are in operation
(Dempsey, 2013).
Some of the data collection methods used include but not limited to indirect
estimations, doing the single contact census, surveys and gathering of the
secondary data. The key stakeholders and partners will collect and gather data
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so that they can be able to make informed decisions in matters of prevention
of homelessness. The partners will come up with their own ways of measuring
their involvement in the project that will determine if they will continue with
the funding or not. This is because if the partners find out that their security is
threatened, they may not be able to continue delivering to the people that
require their services and thus withdrawal. This means that the beneficiaries’
needs to be part and parcel of the whole process especially in monitoring and
providing information that may assist the government and other stakeholders
in delivering superb services for the good livelihood of the people (Goetz et
al., 2016).
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Annex A: Results Framework
Model Category Subcategory
a. People without houses/accommodation People spend night in streets and open spaces such as corridors and river banks
b. Part of population live in temporally houses the main thing in this situation is negotiation of spending night per day.
c. Unsecure accommodation by strangers. People spend night with strangers but with stress of being attacked.
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Annex B: Timeline (with examples)
Key Activities Months/or quarters
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Measurement of the homeless people in the north territory.
Measuring the homelessness globally this should be a future objective.
XX
X
XX
X
Use of stratified samples. This is to get the number of unsheltered people.
Identification of non accommodation services serving unsheltered people.
XX
X
XX
X
Correction of street enumerations.
Sourcing the funding of the project
XX
X
XX
X
XX
X
XX
X
XX
X
XX
X
XX
X
XX
X
XX
X
XX
X
Creation of awareness to the homeless on their rights.
Source of networking to access international grants.
XX
X
XX
X
XX
X
XX
X
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Key Activities Months/or quarters
Checking on the commonality of the homeless people on a global scale.
Looking for ways to curb homeless through research from other countries (Kalra et al.,
2016).
XX
X
XX
X
XX
X
Setting out moves to reduce homelessness. XX
X
XX
X
Development of conceptualization.
Estimate on a daily basis of the people affected by homelessness.
XX
X
Provision of healthcare for the homeless.
Instituting programs that bring knowledge to the homeless.
XX
X
Development of community recreation facilities.
Medical aid to the less fortunate in the society.
XX
X
Creation of awareness to reduce drug and substance abuse. XX XX XX XX XX
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Key Activities Months/or quarters
Assistance of needy families where possible X X X X X
…
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Annex C: Risk Analysis and Mitigation
Risk Likelihood:
Low, Medium,
High
Impact:
Low, Medium,
High
Mitigation Measure Risk Owner
Drug and substance abuse
High The economic
downturn and
no growth.
It causes the
dysfunction of
families.
Medium
Identify and engage the youths involved Government, the public,
and other Stakeholders.
Violence Medium High Increase income and employment
opportunities and building system capacity...
Homeless people and
Stakeholders.
Physical health Medium High Ensure there is a quick crisis response. Stakeholders.
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Explicit discrimination Medium High Creation of awareness that the homeless also
have an equal right with other people.
The government and
other stakeholders.
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Funding Proposal
budget USD 20,000 for
10 months
Item Rate
per
month
Total for
10 months
Personnel
costs
Senior Manager-To
manage staff
$
250.00
$
2,500.00
Senior accountant to
manage grants in future
$
250.00
$
2,500.00
Travel
local Mileage per driver-3
drivers
$
100.00
$
1,000.00
Accommodations $
150.00
$
1,500.00
International Facilitating international
partners
$
150.00
$
1,500.00
Equipment 3 Vehicles hiring $
200.00
$
2,000.00
Office equipment $
250.00
$
2,500.00
Periodicals, Magazines &
Books
$
100.00
$
1,000.00
Material
Vehicle maintenance
expenses-insurance and
licenses
$
210.00
$
2,100.00
Clerical services i.e.
Photocopying & printing
$
240.00
$
2,400.00
Miscellaneous $
100.00
$
1,000.00
General
total $20,000.00
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