Schools / School of Community Development and Participatory Engagement
School of Community Development and Participatory Engagement
Empowering communities through collective action
Equipping practitioners to mobilise communities, strengthen local participation, build sustainable partnerships, and drive inclusive, community-led social development.
Log in or sign up to enroll in this school.
Courses in this school
Concepts and Principles of Community Development
Module One establishes the conceptual foundation for the entire CDP training. Learners are introduced to community development as a participatory process through which community members collectively identify needs, set priorities, and take action to improve their own wellbeing, deliberately distingu
View courseParticipatory Needs Assessment
Module Overview Module Three trains learners in the first substantive stage of the community development process: conducting a genuinely participatory needs assessment that identifies a community's own priorities, not an outside actor's assumptions about what a community needs. Learners are trained
View courseSetting Goals and Priorities
Module Five trains learners to translate the needs assessment findings from Module Three, informed by the stakeholder understanding built in Module Four, into clear, prioritised, actionable goals. Learners are trained in structured prioritisation technique, addressing the common, documented challeng
View courseResource Mobilisation and Partnerships
Module Seven trains learners to identify and mobilise the financial, human, and material resources required to implement a community action plan, drawing first on local and community-based resources before seeking external support, and to build genuine, durable partnerships rather than purely transa
View courseMonitoring, Evaluation and Learning
Module Nine trains learners in monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) practice for community development initiatives, equipping them to design simple, practical indicators, track implementation progress, and assess whether an initiative is achieving its intended outcomes, directly building on th
View course