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Training modules contain basic texts, model forms, short handouts for workshops, and notes for trainers. Each module has a single topic, with different documents in it for different actors or purposes.

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Introductory Modular Training Sets:

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. Getting Prepared: ... Getting Prepared, 13k, what you need to be a mobilizer, preparation for mobilizers; Know Your Goals, 16k what is it that mobilizers wish to achieve; Know Your Target Community, 15k, social research; how the community functions; Know the Skills You Need, 17k, what you need to know how to do; Know the Basic Concepts, 18k what principles and reasoning need to be understood; Outside Resources, 13k, balancing resources from inside and outside the community. and Preparing the Mobiliser, 18k, guidance for the trainer. ... Getting Started: ... Getting Started, preparing the community for action, combining action and training; 16k The Mobilization Cycle, the process of strengthening a community; 15k Clearing the Pathway, getting clearance from the authorities; 18k Raising Awareness, without raising expectations; 17k Unity Organizing, bringing the whole community together; 15k Public Dialogue, how to conduct a public meeting; 16k Challenging the Community, resistance produces strength; 16k Community Chooses Action, community choice means community participation; 16k Organizing for Strength, better organization means more strength; 16kand Starting the Mobiliser, guidance for the trainer. ... Organising the Community: ... Organising the Community, preparing it for action, combining action and training; 14k Action Training, pushing the envelope past the usual purposes of training; 15k Forming the Executive (CIC), the community selects its managers; 16k Assessing Conditions, the community makes an appraisal; 17k Preparing a Community Action Plan (CAP), the community decides its future; 17k Project Design, proposals, outside resources; balancing self reliance with help; 21k Monitoring Arrangements, how well are we doing? 18k Organizing for Action, getting the community set up to do something. 15kand Creating the Organisers, guidance for trainers. ... Into Action: ... Into Action, the community moves, module introduction; 13k Implementing the Community Plan, action for empowerment; 13k Monitoring, watching where we are going; 13k Community Generated Needs, not agency determined needs; 15k Needed Skills, what the CIC will likely identify; 14k Communication Between Committee and Public, pro-active transparency; 15k and Celebrations, completion and a new beginning. 15k ... Sustaining the Intervention: ... Sustaining the Intervention, beyond a single mobilizer, module introduction; 14k Sustaining the Cycle, one community project is only the beginning; 14k Community Leadership & Internal Mobilization, sustaining by auto mobilization; 16k and  Lessons Learned and Awareness of Possibilities, to carry on. 13k ... ......

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Intermediate Modular Training Sets:

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... Community Empowerment Principles: ... Community Empowerment Principles, reasons behind fighting communal poverty; 17k Community Empowerment, making neighbourhoods stronger; 95k Factors of Poverty; The Big Five, attack causes, not symptoms; 52k People Development, Not Hardware, human scale, not technology; handout; 14k Revealing Hidden Resources, sustainable development, avoiding charity; 57k Twelve Lessons, learned by the community development programme of Habitat; 13k Culture and Social Animation, a taste of social science theory for the field worker; 42k Politics and Mobilization Training, roles of politics in community empowerment; 36k and Go to the People. poem by Lao Tsu. 12k Other Related Documents: PAPA by Kamal Phuyal; Gaining Community Ownership by Benjamine Fleming.  .... Mobilization Module: ... The Mobilization Intervention, moving a community to act, mobilizer skills; 20k A Mobilization Cycle, the overall process; workshop handout; 18k The Mobilization Cycle Explicated, explained step-by-step; 57k The Mobilization Cycle Illustrations, to illustrate your training material; 26k To be a Mobilizer, what does it take? training handout; 19k Unity Organizing, purpose and means to unify a community; 20k and Training As Mobilizing, the methodology of using training to mobilize. 21k ... Armenian Javanese.KikuyuLuganda . . Participatory Appraisal: ... Participation in Appraisal, 15k, guiding and encouraging participants to assess and appraise; Participatory Appraisal, PRA, PAR and community inventory; 41k Map and Inventory, notes for community members; 22k Facilitating Participation in Appraisal, notes for facilitators; 22k Defending the Methodology, notes on advocacy for managers; 26k and Training Facilitators in Appraisal, notes for trainers and coordinators. 28k Other Related Documents: Participation, by Ben Fleming; 19k Benefits of PAR, by Doreen Boyd; 18k and Sharing PRA, by Kamal Phuyal. 27k ... Management Training: ... Introduction to MT, training as a method of reorganizing for effectiveness, management training methodology; 15k The Four Key Questions, the essential core of MT for empowerment, 35k Management Training, a workshop handout for participants, 33k Management Tips, eight tips to improve management; 19k MT, Notes for the Trainer, for facilitators in training, 45k and Organizing by Training, a specific kind of training.  63k ... Brainstorm: ... Introduction to the Brainstorm, a training process for obtaining group decisions; 12k Brainstorming Principles and Procedures, overall sketch; can be used as a handout; 39k A Visit with the Brainstorm; Notes for the Facilitator, aimed at trainers in training; 59k and The Brainstorm Session; Notes for the Participant, should be read prior to a session. 22k ... Participatory Management: ... Participatory Management, running an NGO, a project, or a firm, introduction; 16k Participatory Management, methods to encourage staff in decision making; 82k The Participatory Management of People, more than economic resources; 27k Participatory Management and Positive Attitude, we all make mistakes; 20k Using Job Descriptions, enhancing participatory management; 26k Participatory Management Meetings, removing the groans; 62k Annual Review, a tool of participatory management; 72k Preparing a Work Plan, a key tool for participatory management; 61k Techniques of Encouragement, converting criticism to guidance; 17k and Tips for Managers and Mobilizers, parallels in participation. 30k ... Gender: ... Introduction to Gender, strategies to raise awareness and promote balance; 11k  Gender, raising awareness and promoting balance; notes for the mobilizer; 79k and  Gender Issues, awareness and balance; workshop handout. 17k ... Community Project Design: ... Community Project Design, participatory methods to design a community project; 16k Project Design, how to plan a community project; 45k SMART, characteristics of good objectives; 15k Dependency Syndrome, depending too much on outside resources; 15k and Internal Resources Checklist, workshop handout. 13k ... Community Resources Module: ... Community Resources, how to identify and release sometimes hidden resources to fund activities; 14k Resource Acquisition, methods for communities seeking resources; 63k Fund Raising, methods for NGOs and CBOs to obtain finance. 48k Proposals, for NGOs and CBOs seeking approval or money; 119k Proposals Chapters Handout, proposal drafting workshop handout; 14k Proposal Check List Handout, proposal writing workshop handout; 14kand See: Organizing the Grant Writing Process, guest paper by Michelle K. Carter. 22k ...

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... Income Generation Principles: ... Introduction, income generation principles; 19k IG, Poverty & Wealth, trainers' notes on principles of wealth creation;58k Income Generation Illustrations, graphic images for downloading; 23k and Grants, Credit and Poverty Reduction, notes for the mobilizer. 46k ... Organizing for Credit: ... Introduction to Organizing for Credit, building a community credit organization; 24k Micro Enterprise Scheme, overall description of a set-up for channelling credit; 97k Building a Credit Organization, workshop handout; 21k Group Formation and Development, tips on organizing credit groups; 63k Forming Trust Groups, notes about trust groups for participants;  31k Savings Mobilization, encouraging the group to save for building credit; 31k and Some Forms, models for making your own forms. 151k ... See also the Report on the Ghana Micro Enterprise Scheme. ... Micro Enterprise Training: ... Introduction to Micro Enterprise Training, what skills are needed by traders? 17k Micro Enterprise Training, skills needed by small scale business people, participants' notes; 29k Micro Enterprise Training, skills needed, facilitator's notes, 21k Choosing a Micro-Enterprise, notes for the facilitator; 69k Choosing a Micro-Enterprise, how to choose a viable micro enterprise; 66k Planning a Micro-Enterprise, planning methods for running a micro enterprise; 59k Financial Training, a check list of topics in financial recording and reporting; 29k Business Records, the why and how of keeping cash records; 32k and Marketing, a quick course in marketing for mobilizers and micro entrepreneurs. 54k ... Measuring Capacity: ... Measuring the Strengthening of Communities, how much has capacity increased?29k The Sixteen Elements of Community Empowerment, brief descriptions; 97k A General Form, multi-use form for participatory appraisal or measurement; Participatory Methods of Measuring Empowerment, a measurement method; 71k Sixteen Elements of Empowerment, participants' handout; 20k Participants' Notes to Measuring Increased Capacity, how to monitor capacity development, workshop handout; 16k and Forms for Measuring Change in Strength, to hand out in a workshop. 24k ... Monitoring: ... Monitoring and Evaluation, watching progress, observing and analysing; 13k Principles and Purpose, the nature of monitoring; 10k Planning and Implementation, integrating monitoring at all phases; 37k Evaluation, making value judgements after monitoring; 12k Management Information, handling information generated by monitoring; 14k Participation in Monitoring, who should monitor; 16k Levels of Monitoring, community, district, national and donor; 52k Monitoring and Reporting, forwarding the observations and analysis; 21k and Monitoring Forms, use these to design your own. 16k ... Reporting Module: ... Writing Reports, progress must be seen; 18k Report Writing Guidelines, core document;  why, how, for whom, tips; 40k Report Writing for Coordinators, ditto; 36k Why Write Reports? reasons for reporting; 31k Who should Receive Reports? benefits to authors and recipients; 30k How to Write Reports, different types of reports and what they should include; 63k Writing Better Reports, tips on writing better reports –– reports that will be read; 40k A Model for Writing Reports, one page handout; report outline. 16k and Monitoring and Reporting Illustrations, download for local training material. 23k ... Poetry: ... Poetry; Insight and Inspiration for mobilisers' Go to the People, Lao Tzu (estimated to have been written 3,000 years ago). Lines of Motivation, Vaidehi Krishnan; Entrepreneur Women,  translated from Hindi by Vaidehi Krishnan; Poem for Enterpreneurs;  Vaidehi Krishnan; Management – Nature’s Model, Vaidehi Krishnan; Interpersonal Relationships, Vaidehi Krishnan; Business Concepts – the poetic way, Vaidehi Krishnan. Tears of Oil, Allison Miller ... Training Methods: ... Training Methods; how to use the material; 13k How to Use The Material, trainers' reference; 44k Community Management Training Curriculum Framework, planning your training; 99k Preparing a Workshop, design a training workshop as you would a project; 41k Ice Breakers, to relax participants in a work shop; 10k Role Playing and Simulation Games, a training technique; 54k Playing a Role, notes for participants; 13k Telling Stories, practical communication tools; not just entertainment; 13k Two Boys, a wood carving tells a story; 8k  and Slogans & Proverbs. more practical communication tools for community work. 19k ...........

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.... Managing a Mobilization Programme: ... Managing Mobilization, Introduction; Managing a Mobilization Programme, issues related to the peculiarities of the process; Mobilizer Job Description; and Choosing a Community. ... Community Research: ... Community Research, module introduction; Community Research, the social organization of communities; Social Research for Mobilizers, practical, applied, useful; Mobilizer Research Methods, getting preliminary data; Research Questions, what the mobilizer should ask; Keeping Records, managing Information; Survey of Internal Community Resources, what is available to use? and Survey of External Resources, what can the community get from outside? ... Community Water Supply: ... Water and the Mobilizer, when the community chooses clean drinking water; 18k Considering Water, issues for the community mobilizer; 11k Water, Health and the Empowerment of Communities, PHC principles for strength; 47k Water as a Community Investment, clean water and a decrease in poverty; 27k Sources of Drinking Water, alternatives for community decision making; 31k Water Technology for the Mobilizer, getting water to the people; 55k The Rope Pump, local materials, local control. 93k Repair and Maintenance, water management for communities; 28k and Cost Recovery, obtaining resources to manage a water supply. 30k ... Mobilization and Non Material Development: ... Mobilization for Advocacy; when the community chooses civil action; 13k Mobilizing for Civil Society, when the community chooses non physical goals; 41k HIV-AIDS and Empowerment Mobilization, when the community chooses to fight this scourge. 108k Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) , eradication. 25k ... Functional Literacy: ... Functional Literacy, design a  functional, practical, useful and relevant programme; 13k Why Participatory Literacy?reasons for designing a custom programme for each community; 25k Literacy and Empowerment, in stronger communities, members write and read; 20k Literacy Principles, design your own programme; 92k and Workshop Handouts, links to the eighteen principles. 19k 1. Do not copy orthodox and traditional methods and content (Lit-01); 11k 2. Develop your own methods and content based on principles (Lit-02); 10k 3. Adults are not children –– different approaches are needed (Lit-03); 11k 4. Models for teaching should not be taken from schools for children (Lit-04); 15k 5. Respect is very important (Lit-05); 9k 6. Learning by doing is more effective than by watching or listening (Lit-06); 10k 7. Do not aim for high levels of literacy (Lit-07); 11k 8. Seek practical communication –– do not strive for perfection (Lit-08); 10k 9. Emphasize languages and alphabets most commonly used (Lit-09); 10k 10. Combine written words with simple pictures (Lit-10); 9k 11. Include elementary numeracy early in your teaching plan (Lit-11); 8k 12. What is learned must be practical, immediate, and useful (Lit-12); 9k 13. Learn and use what is useful and interesting in each community (Lit-13); 8k 14. Avoid curricula (content) from orthodox schooling – make your own (Lit-14); 8k 15.  Avoid traditional, orthodox, useless topics (Lit-15); 9k 16. Praise; do not criticize (Lit-16); 12k 17. Give opportunities to participants to teach what they learn (Lit-17); 9k and 18. Guide participants into the awe and enjoyment of discovery (Lit-18). 10k ... Capacity Development: ... Developing Capacity of Organizations, how to strengthen an organization; 20k Capacity Development, techniques for increasing organizational strength; 70k Measuring the Strengthening of Organizations, an extrapolation;29k Sixteen Elements of Capacity, participants' handout; 100k Participants' Forms, for promoting capacity development. 35k ... Enabling Environment: ... Enabling Environment, strong communities need the right atmosphere; 16k Enabling Community Empowerment, no community exists in a vacuum; 87k and Preparing a Community Development Policy Paper, guidelines. 39k ... Transforming Disaster to Development: ... From Disaster to Development, charity to empowerment –– transformation; 20k Disaster's End. transforming a programme of charity to empowerment; 124k SWOT, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats; using the process; 37kand Disaster Illustrations. downloadable for making local training material. 16k ...

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Sociology; The Science Behind Empowerment:

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. Introduction to Sociology: ... Sociology Home Page; Notes and Notices; Sociology Readings;   Family and Community (Sociology 160 outline); Web References for Family and Community; A Free Introductory Sociology Course of Studies; Discussions; Characteristics of Communities; Textbook: The Sociology of Communities; An Introduction; Internet References for the Textbook; A Plea for Sponteneity;  Akan Studies;  Applied Sociology Pages on this site; Send an E-mail.  . Classical Sociologists: ...... Documents Included in the Classical Sociologists Module Three Classical Sociologists  Dialectical Materialism  Durkheim and Weber  Emile Durkheim  Karl Marx   Marx and Weber  Max Weber  Weber on Change  .. Perspectives: .... Documents Included in the Perspectives Module Sociological Perspectives Everyday Things; Sociological Perspective  Eye of the Beholder; Sociological Perspective Is Culture Inside Us or Outside Us? The Meaning of Culture  Nacirema (Have you heard of them before?) Poker Game, a metaphor for sociological perspective Sociological Perspective Strange Fish; key word this site  Superorganic; another view of culture Web References Introductory Sociology .. Dimensions: .... Documents Included in this Dimensions Module Dimensions of Culture Change and the Dimensions  Culture, Symbols and Dimensions  Dimensions of Culture  The Economic Dimension of society  The Institutional Dimension   The Political Dimension  The Technological Dimension   The Values Dimension   The Worldview Dimension (beliefs)  .. Socialization: .... Documents Included in the Socialization Module Education and Socialization  An Aural Method to learn an oral language  Education  Gender and Language  Sapir and Whorf; language and perception of reality  Social Promotion; failing grades, passing students  Socialization, Chickens and Eggs  Student Discussion (Reality TV)  Student Discussion (Socialization)  Student Discussion (Secondary Socialization)  Who Should Pay to Raise Children? .. Family: .... Documents Included in the Family Module Family and Kinship  Akan Case Study; lecture notes on matriliny  Akan Covert Gynocracy, hidden status of women  Divorce. Discussion  Families in First Nations, Visible Minorities and Immigrants  Family Politics  Home vs Work Conflict  Homosexuality  Incest Taboo  Love and Marriage  Marriage Terminology  Nuclear Family; discussion  Seven Biases in Family Literature  Web References  Sociology of Family and Community Preliminary Family Data Social Indicators of Family; Ethnography  Thesaurus, Family Using the Six Dimensions in Family Research .. Community: .... Documents Included in the Community Module Sociology of Communities  Family and Community (outline)  Community    Community Based Social Work in Refugee Camps  Community Characteristics  Elements of Strength    Preliminary Community Data  Questions on Community Based Social Work  Sociology of Communities; an introduction  Thesaurus, Community  Web References  Textbook  Web References for Family and Community  What is Community?    .. Inequality: .... Documents Included in the Inequality Module Inequality, Age, Race, Sex  Age, Race and Sex; socio-bio interface  Elders  Factors of Poverty; The Big Five  Gender Division of Labour among the Akan  Gender for the Community Mobiliser  Glass Ceiling; Glass  Elevator  Global Stratification  Inequality  Power of Suns in the Sixties  Racial Categories and Biology  Vertical Mosaic  .. Religion (Beliefs and Social Organization): .... Documents Included in the Religion Module The Sociology of Religion  Akan Religion pre Christian gods and ancestors  Notes on Religion (beliefs and social organization)  .. Change: .... Documents Included in the Change Module Culture Change and Social Change  Cities and Urbanization  From Cult to Religion  Cultural Evolution   Culture and Social Animation  Mosaic or Melting Pot?  Neo Gemeinschaft  So You Want to Preserve Your Culture?  Social Change  .. Crime and Deviance: .... Documents Included in the Crime and Deviance Module Crime and Deviance  Criminal Sentence Purposes  Deviance  Female Genital Mutilation  Good Guys versus Bad Guys  Law as a Tool of Oppression  Restorative Justice  So What About Corporations?  Techniques of Neutralization  .. Demography (Counting People): .. Documents Included in the Demography Module Demography and Sociology Age Pyramid and the Dependency Ratio  Demography  .......... Sociology Research: ... Documents Included in the Community Research Module Community Research  Measuring Strength    Methods of Participatory Appraisal  Preliminary Family and Community Data  Six Plus Two  Sixteen Elements of Strength; (Family, Organization or Community)  Sixteen Elements explicated  Social Indicators of Family or Community; Ethnography  Social Research for Mobilisers  and Using the Six Dimensions in Family Research .. Documents Included in the Social Research Module Sociological Research  Applied Research Methods  Kinds of Research Methods  Knowing   Measuring Strength or Capacity  Participant Observation  Problems of Prediction and Cause  Techniques of Sampling  Unobtrusive Measures; and  Why Obo? (Choosing a research subject)  .. Miscellaneous: .... Miscellaneous Miscellaneous Sociological topics Eating with Friends  and Rites of Passage ...... 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Under Construction: .... . Urban Gardening; Methods of Teaching Reading Skills; (by Jac Slik) Large to Small; Learning to read using whole language  Repeated Reading;  Language Experience;  Stay Happy and Healthy and Leadership. . Other Training Material: ... Key Words, a reference or alternative approach to learning about the methods; 24k An Aural Method to Learn an Oral Language, in a community with another language? 73k What is Community? a sociological perspective; 95k Common Errors in Writing, not comprehensive; mainly pet peeves; 27k Time, a clock that follows your cursor; 16k and Extra Illustrations, to download and use in making local training material. 21k ... Reference: ... Working Bibliography, references in the literature used in the field; 66k Acronyms and Abbreviations, shortcuts to the profession; 20k ––»«––

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.... Guest Papers: ... ... Kamal Phuyal is one of the foremost PRA trainers in Nepal. He asks the question "Why PRA?" noting that most material about PRA is about "How (to do PRA)." To Kamal, the answer is related to the syntheses of Buddhist and Hindu values of his home country, Nepal. See: Sharing PRA. 23k. His later contribution is Participatory Appreciative Planning Approach [PAPA]. ... Benjamin Fleming, community specialist in Australia, writes an article that opens with the provocative statement, "Participation does not always lead to empowerment."  See: Participation 14k.  See his later contribution, Gaining Community Ownership , where he discusses our role in this process. ... See Comments and Further Thoughts 13k by Doreen Boyd, UNDP, Barbados and ... For advice on writing grant proposals, see Michelle Carter's guest paper: