TRAINING MODULES

The first five modules contain short handouts to be used in an introductory workshop. Except for trainers' notes, all are included in one document, Mobilisers' Handbook.

• Getting Prepared, what you need to be a mobilizer;
• Getting Started, preparing the community for action;
• Organizing the Community, combining action and training;
• Into Action, community movement;
• Sustaining the Intervention, beyond a single mobilizer;

• Principles of Community Empowerment, reasons behind fighting communal poverty;
• Mobilization, skills in moving and organizing a community to act;
• 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.

• Managing 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.

• 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;
• Research;
• References.

• Reading;
• Urban Gardening;
• Stay Happy and Healthy;
• Leadership;

• 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.

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Complementary Modules : Participatory Appraisal, Community Research, Sociological Research

Complementary Modules: Non Material Development, Functional Literacy, Gender Balance

Complementary Modules: Community Project Design, Project Resource Acquisition

Complementary Modules: Empowerment Principles, Capacity Development, Measuring Strength

Complementary Modules: Participatory Management, Management Training, Managing Mobilization

Complementary Modules: Income Generation, Credit Organization, Micro Enterprise Training

Complementary Modules: Monitoring and Evaluation, Handbook on Monitoring, Report Writing