Community Empowerment/Resources

Introductory Modules (short handouts)
 * Getting Prepared, what you need to be a mobilizer;
 * Getting Started
 * Organizing the Community, combining action and training
 * Into Action, community movement
 * Sustaining the Intervention, beyond a single mobilizer

Intermediate Modules
 * Principles of Community Empowerment, reasons behind fighting communal poverty
 * Mobilization
 * Participatory Appraisal, stimulating the community to assess itself
 * Management Training, training as a method of (re)organizing for effectiveness
 * The Brainstorm, a training process for obtaining group decisions
 * Participatory Management, running an NGO, a project, or a firm
 * Gender, strategies for awareness raising and gender balance
 * Community Project Design, participatory methods to design a community project
 * Community Resources, identify and release sometimes hidden resources
 * Principles of Income Generation, what lies behind a programme to fight poverty
 * Building a Credit Organization, a community organization for channelling credit
 * Micro Enterprise Training, skills needed by small scale business people
 * Measuring the Strengthening of Communities, how to monitor capacity development
 * Monitoring and Evaluation, observing and analysing progress
 * Report Writing, how, why, for whom, to write reports
 * Poetry, inspiration and insight for mobilisers
 * Training Methods, using the material

Further Modules
 * a Mobilization Programme, issues related to the peculiar characteristics of the process;
 * Community Research, social variables of the community, obtaining valuable information to empower a community;
 * Water and the Mobilizer, when the community chooses clean drinking water;
 * Non Material Development when the community chooses advocacy, civil society, social work, female genital mutilation, HIV AIDS;
 * Functional Literacy, learning how to write and read through unorthodox methods; design a functional, practical, useful and relevant programme;
 * Capacity Development, how to strengthen an organization; using the empowerment approach on an NGO, company or agency;
 * Enabling Environment, encouraging communities to be more self reliant; the political and administrative situation affects their empowerment;
 * From Disaster to Development, transforming charity to empowerment how to convert your programme from relief when the disaster ends.

Sociological Modules:
 * Beginners' Sociology, some of the science that spawned the empowerment methodology of this site;
 * Readings
 * Discussions
 * Perspectives
 * Classical Sociologists
 * Cultural Dimensions
 * Inequality
 * Community
 * Family
 * Socialization and Education
 * Crime and Deviance
 * Religion
 * Change
 * Demography
 * Miscellaneous
 * Sociological Research
 * References

Under Construction
 * Reading
 * Urban Gardening
 * Stay Happy and Healthy
 * Leadership

Other Documents
 * An Aural Method to Learn an Oral language
 * The CMP Strategy
 * Three Handbooks
 * What is Community?
 * Writing Errors
 * Training for Strength
 * ISS Research
 * Working Bibliography
 * Extra Illustrations
 * We Need a Volunteer
 * Utility Documents (including contributor profiles)
 * Ghana Income Generation Report
 * Individual Guidance