2012-2013 Academic Catalog

May 12, 2024

2012-2013 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

IDCE 30259 - Facilitating Community Associations

Local community based associations play an increasingly important role in defining and shaping development initiatives. The focus of the course is on identifying, investigating, and facilitating community based associations in non-western societies (including informal work and economic groups, women and youth groups, savings and credit societies, mutual support societies, farmers’ associations and local natural resource management groups). The course focuses on building ties of local community associations with local government authorities, NGOs and development projects, formal microfinance institutions. Students learn how to work with local experts and community members, facilitate income generating, financing and marketing activities, participate in local discourses on human rights and public health, and build ties of these groups with the formal sector and external development actors.