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Three
Community Worker Handbooks
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are three hand books for community field workers involved in reducing poverty
and strengthening low income communities. |
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are aimed at community animators in the least wealthy countries. |
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are designed to be translated into local languages, and adapted to rural
and urban communities. |
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The
illustrations are made in Uganda, but can be downloaded and used in local
training material in other countries. |
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While
the material is provided free here, we request that you identify where
you obtained them, give us feedback on how you have used the material,
and engage in email dialogue about the principles and techniques used in
them. Click on the Yahoo Groups icon on the home page, and join our discussion.
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Here
are the three hand books in pdf (Acrobat):
Links
to HTML (web pages) below. |
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| Here
are the summaries of these three handbooks for mobilizers. |
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| Handbook
for Mobilizers (Summary): |
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| ISBN:
92-1-131401-1 -- UN: HS/543/98 |
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| Community
participation must be stimulated and encouraged. This is a "how-to"
book,
intended for community mobilizers. 1. Getting Prepared: know your goals,
your target community, the skills you need, the basic concepts. Avoiding
dependency. 2. Getting Started: sensitizing authorities, getting
permissions. Mobilization cycle. Community chooses its action. 3.
Organizing the community: action training. Forming the executive. Assessing
conditions: problems, resources, constraints, Community action plan.
4. Into action: monitoring is essential. |
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Transparency.
Records, reports. Community generated needs. Training: communication: meetings,
reports, inspections. Celebrations: key turning points, completion.
5. Sustainability: Community leadership and internal mobilization.
6. Appendices: Glossary of Key Terms. To Be a Mobilizer. What is a Community?
Elements of Strength. Mobilization Cycle. Unity Organizing. Training
as Mobilization. Brainstorming. Management Training. Telling Stories. Slogans
& Proverbs. Project Design. Preparing a Workshop. Resource Acquisition.
Measuring Progress. Initials and Acronyms. |
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| Handbook
to Generate Wealth (Summary): |
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| ISBN:
92-1-1314 03-8 -- UN: HS/544/98 |
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| A
"how-to"
book for community workers to help eradicate poverty. Analysis of poverty
and its causes. Using credit and training to promote entrepreneurship.
1. Definitions, goals, methods. Attacking causes not results of poverty
(apathy, ignorance, disease, dishonesty, dependency, isolation).
2. Credit. Wealth must be created, not merely transferred. Sizes of loans.
Market rate of interest. |
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3.
Organizing groups: trust, umbrella, training. 4. Skills needed: management,
resource mobilization, accounting, finance, records, reports, marketing,
credit skills, technical skills. 5. Successful enterprise: viability,
integrity, goodwill. 6. Appendices: Forms. Group formation. Micro-enterprise.
Business records. Financial training. Marketing. Savings. Planning. Managing
an enterprise. Definitions. |
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| Handbook
of Monitoring (Summary): |
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| ISBN:
92-1-131401-6 -- UN: HS/545/98 |
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handbook focuses on monitoring and evaluation of community strengthening.
1. Principles. 2. Integrated into all stages of project cycle; executed
by all stake holders. Monitoring indicators. 3. Evaluation.
4. Management information: determining information needed, collecting,
analysing, storing, assessing, disseminating. |
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5.
Advantages and challenges of participation in monitoring. 6. Issues
and procedures at community, district, national and donor level.
7. Pros and cons of verbal and written reports. Appendices:
Forms. Mobilizer's Reports. Model. |
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| Subsequent
to the publishing of the three handbooks, this site has created and developed
several training modules to supplement
the training material in the handbooks. Training modules contain basic
texts, model forms, short handouts for workshops, and notes for trainers. |
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