EFFECTIVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND EMPOWERMENT SKILLS SEMINAR

Course Aim : To equip the participants with professional skills, knowledge and positive attitude vital for community development duties.

Course Content : 
Overview and the concept of community development

• Meaning of community development
• Characteristics of a community
• Factors influencing development

Community and economic development

• Factors to consider when initiating community development
  
• Importance of community development
• Participation of people in community activities

Theories of social change and community development

• Meaning of social change
• Causes of social change
• Best strategies for social change

Approaches to community development

• Community development approaches
• Principles of community development
  

Community development work

• Community development work as a change agent
  
• Methods employed by community development workers
  
• The social change models
  
• Factors influencing performance of development workers
  

Community leadership

• The concept of leadership
  
• Power and leadership
  
• Types of leaders and styles
  
• Techniques of identifying community leaders
  
• Community organizations
  

Community capacity building

• Effective community capacity building
  
• Asset and capacity assessment
  
• The impact of building the capacity on community development
  

Indicators of community development

• Community diversity - advantages
  
• Community participation
  
• Assessing community readiness in development
  
• Community development catalysts
  

Resource mobilization

• Principles and process of resource mobilization
  
• Tools for resource mobilization
  
• Engaging stakeholders support for resource mobilization
  
• Selecting resource mobilization vehicle
  

Community empowerment techniques

• Community ownership and action for social change
  
• The external agent as catalyst
  
• The right policy in empowerment
  

• Principles and practices of management
  
• Effective communication in community development
  
• Monitoring and evaluation
  

Target Group : All staff involved in community development. Others supporting community development, resource mobilization and empowerment can attend and will benefit immensely from the seminar. All staff involved in planning process can also attend.

Course Venue : ROSA MYSTICA CONFERENCE CENTRE, Nairobi, Kenya.

Teaching Methods : Highly participative incorporating short introductory lectures, discussions, case studies, syndicate work and experiential approaches.

Course Date: Open Dates. *

Course Fee : US$ 3000.00 **