Training for Transformation (IV): A handbook for community workers Book 4 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853394610 ISBN 13: 9781853394614

Publisher: Practical Action Publishing, 1999

Synopsis

A practical workbook for community development workers. It recognizes that the only changes which effectively transform the lives of poor people are those in which they have been active participants and the book provides ways of getting this process started. This fourth book focuses on five issues which have become increasingly prominent in the concerns of communities throughout the world: the environment; gender and development; ethnic and racial conflict; intercultural understanding; and building participatory governance. Each section contains a selection of relevant material designed to stimulate interest and debate, including simulations, real life stories, telling statistics, news articles, and poetry and drama from local communities. The authors have drawn on their direct experience of working on community development programmes in South Africa and the USA, as well as feedback from many other countries where the "Training for Transformation" approach has been adopted. The book is divided into modules which can be covered in sequence or in any order. All the exercises have been tested in the field and used with groups in many different countries.

About this title

About the Author

Anne Hope was born in South Africa, from where she was exiled during the apartheid regime. During this time she worked in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria, India and Zimbabwe.

Edition details

• Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1853394610
• ISBN 13: 9781853394614
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Hope Anne, Timmel Sally