Civic Action Team

Productivity is a way of life

NPCC has a national mandate to serve all sectors of Mauritian life. Everybody, be it children at home and at school, women at home and in the workplace, youth at school and in the community or trade unionists, etc. can do something to enhance productivity. The driving force behind productivity movement is the CATs (Civic Action Teams).

CAT- a specific productivity tool

It is an innovative adaptation of Quality Circles for problem solving in gembas other than the workplace

• Different strata of the society starting with the family, the school, and the workplace can use it.
• It is extendable at community level
• It is a learning by doing approach
• It is action and results oriented
• It is a proven tool and brings results

Thinking & Acting Together for a Better Living

A CAT(Civic Action Team) is a group of persons (3 to 15) who voluntarily come together to identify a problem in their everyday life, analyse it, come up with solutions, refine the solutions, shoulder the responsibility of implementing them and have fun doing it.

How CATs work towards Better Living for the Nation?

CAT Trainings available:

1. CATs facilitators to:

• Assist CATs in their projects
• Assist the emergence of CATs

2. QC techniques for identifying, reducing and eliminating muda

CATs Convention

• For sharing of experiences
• For exporting solutions from one region or sector to another

Learn from CATs achievements

Who is concerned? Everybody.

Schools
Women
Out-of-school youth
Social Welfare officers
Trade unionists
Families

How to start a CAT:

The NPCC can act as your coach, giving a helping hand with sensitization and training

Requirement:

“When there is a will, there is a way”