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Community Organising (CO) Perspective & Facilitation Skills among, urban poor sector, rural peasants, indigenous peoples, community women & youth.
- community organising frame

- team work and effective communications
- approaching the people
- mobilising & collective action
- facilitation skills
- use and production of creative media
- support services & organisational management
- networking and linkages
- sustainability & funding


Audio-visual Training for Community-Based Organizations
and support service NGOs for grassroots in the area of video & creative media productions.
- documentary & docu-drama productions
- radio cassette drama and productions
- community video shooting, editing and production


Strategic Planning & Organisational Development
Training & Monitoring for grassroots groups & NGO.
- review and evaluation of organisations

- development of strategic approaches and activities
- formulation of vision, mission & goals
- community approach to developing grassroots organisations
- collective monitoring approaches


Land & Sea Mapping to help support the protection, conservation and management of traditional community-based resources, recognition of territorial boundaries in the ancestral lands.
- protection, defense and management of natural resources
- community mapping, documentation and usage
- revival of indigenous practises, knowledge and cultural wisdom


Organic Farming Skills & Perspective for sustainability of grassroots communities and as tools for community organising.
- perspective and practises of organic farming
- management and sustainability of organic practises
- skills and practises in organic farming
- empowering indigenous knowledge and collective practices
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Women Empowerment
through training workshop, supporting and developing women leaders and community organizers, gender awareness within the Community Organising framework.
- gender awareness and mainstreaming in community organising practises
- women participation and leadership
- developing women leaders and organisers on community level
- empowerment of women in socio-economic practises and community actions
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Micro-Enterprises & Socio-Economic Projects for Community Economic Development; micro and small business, micro lending, community based financial institutions such as credit union and cooperatives.
- developing grassroots initiatives towards income generation
- community based resource management
- relating socio-economic projects to overall community empowerment
- developing community level support systems and financial accountability
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Hosting and Organizing Grassroots People to People Exchanges, internships and exposure visits.
- hosting of exposure. internship and study tours
- reflection and comparative experiences
- focuses development on specific themes through hands on experiences
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Organizing & Hosting Regional & Local Workshop, conferences, seminars, and consultations.
- hosting & organising regional/conferences, workshops, seminars and other events
- logistical & technical support (venue, transport, equipment, and others)
- documentation by print, video or photographs
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Effective & Creative Facilitation Skills for NGOs, companies, individuals.
- facilitation skills and perspectives
- use of creative and appropriate media tools
- production of selected media tools such as video, photo, newsletter, pamphlets, etc
- simulation or field work practises
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Advocacy Capacity Bulding for Grassroots Leaders.
- perspective and understanding of grassroots advocacy, national advocacy & international advocacy
- understanding the advocacy environment
- tactics and strategies towards advocacy
- skills and resoruces needed for advocacy
- developing a strategic plan of advocacy on different levels
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Production of Locally Relevant Resource Materials for community education, awareness building and campaigns such as sound slides, photos-essays, Visual aid cards, simple community bulletin, video documentaries, and others.
- production of different creative media tools.
- usage of such media materials
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Popular Communication & Education Skills such as creative games, energisers, action songs, community theatre, art & drawing, folk art, print media and others.
- use of popular communications skills & approaches for community organising and education.
- production of such materials and preparations for session
- creating and developing appropriate module.


Community Housing Skills & Processes to enhance the capacity for local people to build or rebuild their communities.
- collective approach to developing people's housing
- organisational preparedness towards community housing
- use of funds and financial management
- use of housing as entry point for organising and developing local leaders & organisers
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Designing & Building Community Training Center & Hall according to local designs, traditions, cultural values, emblems, symbols, and community needs.
- help in developing community training center and hall
- study of local environment and maximising local resources
- set up systems of management and maintenance
- community participation and involvement
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Traditional & Herbal Medicine Treatment & Practise to maximise the natural & environmentally conscious ways to treatment of diseases and sickness in the communities.
- use of traditional and indigenous resources for medicines.
- sustaining & expanding the natural medicines and
- community protection, participation and management of traditional medicines
- popularisation and  income generation.


Conflict & Crisis Management pertaining to organizing emergency relief and rehabilitation operations, and human and natural disaster crisis organizing and coordination.
- identification of needs, resources and sources of support
- formulation of appropriate tactics and strategies
- mounting a strategy for emergency relief, reconstruction and rehabilitation
- socio-psychological support based on local systems and culture.


* Note: The are many areas of expertise which is not mentioned in the above listing. These are just highlights to present some examples of the vast coverage of expertise being offered by SEAPCP.