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June 13-July 7, 2008 |
June 11 , 2008 |
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Political Empowerment and Community Development
GSLL 1509
2 CEUs - $345
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Description:
This course will look at some of the political aspects to bottom-up approaches and village-based development initiatives. Specifically, we will look at the concept of political empowerment of community-based organizations (CBOs) in development. How do communities interact with local, regional, and national governments? It is important to note that in this course we take a rather broad look at political empowerment, not only studying community relations with government entities, but we include relations with other "governance organizations," which may consist of large development practitioner organizations, international donor organizations, and other entities that may play an important role in linking communities to resources. Because we believe it is impossible to create one model that will give communities all the answers to issues of political empowerment, we will take a case-study approach, in which we will look at different examples of how communities have been both successful and unsuccessful in their dealings with governance organizations. We will also look at some of the important theoretical concepts that provide a framework for better understanding how communities become politically empowered.
Upon completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Understand important concepts and theories that relate to political empowerment
- Compare different cases and evaluate their strategies and effectiveness
- Design a strategy (strategies) for their specific community that will help them deal with "governance organizations"
- Understand governmental structures and their relevance in Community-based development
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| Summer Session I online courses begin June 13, 2008. Registration ends June 11, 2008 at 11:59PM MST. Register Today! |
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Above: Community leaders in the Amazon were politically empowered to hold their own "indigenous congress" in which they elected a Board of Directors to form their own development organization in the region using many of the principles learned from Village Earth - IISD workshops. |
In this course we take a rather broad look at political empowerment, not only studying community relations with government entities, but we include relations with other "governance organizations," which may consist of large development practitioner organizations, international donor organizations, and other entities that may play an important role in linking communities to resources.
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