Location: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Co. USA
Tuition: $1450.00

Development practitioners and community leaders need practical skills they can use when working with communities on a day-to-day basis. This course explores both the theory and practice of community-based development, focusing on practical tools and skills for cultivating indigenous leadership, mobilizing communities for collective action, accessing resources, and developing long-enduring community-based institutions.

Through dialogue, workshops, case studies, and other exercises, participants will learn how to work with community members to identify their vision for the future and create the relationships, insitutions, and appropriate technologies to move towards it. The techniques taught in this course are based on a participatory, bottom-up approach to development proven effective throughout the world by Village Earth.

Some of the topics covered in this section:

• Comparison of Development Approaches
• Basic Principles of Community-based Development
• Community Empowerment and Mobilization
• Creating Resource Access Structures
• Bottom-up Strategies for Regional Development
• Community and Resource Mapping and Clustering
• Participatory Learning and Action
• Community Organization and Capacity Building
• Participatory Strategic Planning
• Appropriate Technology Generation
• Participatory Assessment, Monitoring and Evaluation
  

For help Please contact Nancy Murray (nancy@villageearth.org)
Ph. 970-491-5754