The Sundays River Valley Collaborative (SRVC) is a response to problems and challenges that have been experienced in the Sunday’s River Valley (SRV) over the last number of years. Among these are:

• Excessive socio-economic and economic inequalities
• Limited capacity of local government
• Limited productive inclusion and participation of locals in the local economy
• Under-utilization of local human resources
• The effects of the seasonal nature of the Citrus Industry
• The dependency of the SRV on one industry, being the Citrus Industry
• Under-utilization of local assets and opportunities for local economic development and
• Rapid expansion of the sector economy that brought wanted and unwanted consequences

In response to these challenges the SRVC provides a multi-sector platform for collaboration among all relevant stakeholders to pursue an improved quality of life for all in the SRV on an inclusive basis.

• Bring people together to dialogue, learn to solve problems jointly and to collaborate
• To facilitate collaboration that includes communities, civil society, government, and the business sector
• To encourage and facilitate a multi-sector co-responsible and collaborative approach to local development
• Solve the problem of exclusion and development failure in a constructive non-confrontational way
• To be a flexible, changeable, response to a changing context