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Creating Capacity for Community Developments
Creating Capacity for Community Developments MPH 589305 [20 Points]
Programme/s attached to: AK3805 Master of Public Health
Prescriptor
Students engage with a critical understanding of the theories and practices of capacity building in community developments. Locates community capacity building within the broader context of community development theory to provide a framework to evaluate contemporary models of community capacity building. Critical understanding of theories, models and practices of capacity building for a range of communities, situations and sectors focusing particularly on the community health sector.
Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of the concept of community development and the purpose of community development in the community health sector.
- Critique the concept of community capacity building for a range of situations and sectors including health.
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of the principles, processes and content of capacity building for a range of situations and sectors including health.
- Demonstrate critical understanding of the political and cultural contexts of capacity building.
- Critique models of capacity building for the community health sector.
- Demonstrate skills for critical evaluation of community capacity building initiatives in health promotion.
- Critically examine the relationships between models of appreciative inquiry, asset-based community development and community health outcomes.
- Evaluate capacity building programmes within the context of theories of social transformation.
Content
Understanding the context of Community Capacity Building
Theories of community capacity building
Community Capacity Building Processes
Public Policy and Community Capacity Building
Building community capacity through asset-based community development approaches
Monitoring and Evaluation of Community Capacity Building Programmes
Planned Meetings Schedule:
The three-day and two-day workshops have been scheduled as follows:
Block One from Tuesday October 06th –to-Thursday October 08th 2009
Block Two: Wednesday October 28th –to-Thursday 29th 2009
The final assignment must be submitted by November 16th but no later than 20th November 2009
Assessment Processes and Methods
There will be three assessments for this paper
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