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COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT - How do we assist communities to become stronger?

• http://www.scn.org/cmp/modules/emp-inks.htm - not translated

• Definition of Community
• Community Empowerment, making neighbourhoods stronger
• Factors of Poverty; The Big Five, attack causes, not symptoms
• People Development, Not Hardware, human scale, not technology;
• Revealing Hidden Resources, sustainable development, avoiding charity
• Twelve Lessons, learned by Community Development of Habitat;
• Culture and Social Animation, a taste of social science theory for the field worker;
• Preserving Culture, No. Strengthen it instead; http://www.scn.org/cmp/modules/emp-prks.htm
• Politics and Mobilization Training, roles of politics in community empowerment;
• Know when to fold 'em, sometimes it is necessary to walk away;
• Eight Elements of The Empowerment Methodology;
• Kindness Kills help can be unfortunate;
• Human factor and community empowerment ;
• Go to the People, poem by Lao Tsu. http://www.scn.org/cmp/modules/emp-gok.htm

Guest Papers

• Gaining Community Ownership, by Ben Flemming;
• PAPA, by Kamal Phuyal.