Community Empowerment/Resources
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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
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