About the Course

Community development supports communities in utilizing their resources to improve the standard of living in their neighborhood. The purpose of community development is mainly to build communities based on human rights, justice, mutual respect, and equality. Community development is fundamentally grounded in the idea that everyone should have access to health, happiness, wealth, justice, and opportunity. It acknowledges that some individuals, organizations, and communities are marginalized and oppressed as a result of how society and its systems are set up.

This training on community development aims at equipping communities, community leaders, NGOs, CSOs, and other practitioners with relevant knowledge and skills for effective participation in socio-economic development.

Target Participants

This Training on community development is ideal for staff in development organizations, government institutions, and the private sector who are involved in community development activities.

What You Will Learn

By the end of this course the participants will be able to:

• Understand the key concepts and principles in community development
• Understand the importance of community participation in development.
• Develop the project life cycle of a community development project
• Determine how cross-cutting issues affect community development
• Implement strategies for mainstreaming cross-cutting issues in community development

Course Duration

 5 Days

Course Outline

Introduction to Community Development

• What is community development?
• Key concepts in community development
• Characteristics of healthy and unhealthy communities
• Principles and Challenges in community development
• Community Organizational Structure
• Leadership Patterns

Community Assessment and Needs Identification

• Methods for conducting community assessments
• Conducting Focus Groups
• Identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT analysis)
• Needs assessment techniques and tools
• Geographic Information System (GIS) Tools for Community Mapping

Participatory Methods for Community Development

• Participatory methods (PRA, PUA, RRA, ABCD)
• Participatory tools
• Participatory learning and action (PLA)

Inter Personal Skills for Community Development

• Communication skills
• Roleplay
• Presentations skills
• Facilitation skills

Principles of Advocacy

• Developing a Plan for Advocacy
• Using Social Media for Digital Advocacy
• Lobbying Decision Makers
• General Rules for Organizing Legislative Advocacy
• Seeking Funding for Community Projects

Project Planning and Management

• Project life cycle
• Characteristics of community development projects
• Types of community development projects
• Challenges in project management

Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation of Community Development Projects

• Importance of participatory monitoring and evaluation of community development projects
• Indicators in a community development project
• How to conduct participatory M&E
• Understanding participatory M&E tools

Collaboration and Partnership Building

• Identifying and engaging with stakeholders
• Developing partnerships with government agencies, NGOs, and other organizations
• Conflict resolution and consensus-building techniques
• Understanding Culture and Diversity

Resource Mobilization

• What is resource mobilization?
• Types of resources
• Sources of resources – internal and external
• Ways of mobilizing resources
• Tools for Resource Mobilization

Cross-Cutting Issues

• Gender Mainstreaming
• Disability Mainstreaming
• HIV/AIDS
• Vulnerable groups
• Drug and Substance abuse
• Environment /climate change
• Disaster awareness and preparedness response

Closure

Methodology
This instructor led training course is delivered using a blended learning approach and comprises of presentations, guided sessions of practical exercise, web based tutorials and group work. Our facilitators are seasoned industry experts with years of experience, working as professional and trainers in these fields.

All facilitation and course materials will be offered in English. The participants should be reasonably proficient in English.

Accreditation

Upon successful completion of this training, participants will be issued with a certificate of participation.

 Training venue

The training is residential and will be held at the Livecode Technologies Training Centre in Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya. The course fee covers the course tuition, training materials, two break refreshments, lunch, and study visits.

All participants will additionally cater for their, travel expenses, visa application, insurance, and other personal expenses.

 Accommodation

Accommodation is arranged upon request. For reservations contact the Training Officer.

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Training fee

The course fee is KES 70,000.00 or USD 1000.00 exclusive of VAT. The course fees covers the course tuition, training materials, two (2) break refreshments, lunch and study visits. Participants will cater for their travel and accommodation costs.

Payment

Payment should be transferred to Livecode Technologies account through bank on or before the course starting date.

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Tailor- Made

This scheduled course can also be tailored for your organization. To find out how our tailor-made training can help your organization, contact our team through This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Please Note: The program content shown here is for guidance purposes only. Our continuous course improvement process may lead to changes in topics and course structure.