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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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