This course offers a comprehensive exploration of the Human Development Approach and the Human Rights-based Approach, focusing on methodologies that prioritize people-centered strategies for community development. Participants will delve into the nuances of basic need fulfillment, need analysis, and the balance between needs versus capacities and assets. The course further examines enhancing human capabilities, community capacity-building, asset development, uncovering potential leaders, and ethnodevelopment within the Human Development Approach. Additionally, it covers the application of the Human Rights-based Approach in community engagement, consultation, mobilization, and effective facilitation strategies. Through a blend of theoretical understanding and practical application, this course aims to equip participants with the knowledge and skills to implement development strategies that are both effective and aligned with human rights principles.
Course
Learning Outcomes:
1.Understand
People-Centered and Human Development Approaches: To provide participants with
a deep understanding of people-centered approaches, focusing on fulfilling
basic needs, analyzing community needs, and leveraging community capacities and
assets.
2.Explore
Human Rights-based Approaches to Community Engagement: Equip participants with
knowledge and skills to apply human rights-based approaches in community
engagement, consultation, and mobilization efforts, ensuring that these
strategies are inclusive and participatory.
3.
Develop Skills in Capacity-Building and Facilitation: Foster participants'
ability to build community capacities, uncover and develop potential leaders,
and employ effective facilitation strategies in diverse community settings.
