Community Based Environmental Education for Community Leaders
Winner of the World Environment Day Award for "101 Actions Pour L'Environnement": Special July Prize 2002.
The primary objective of this project is to develop and organise a comprehensive training course over six months for Community Leaders. The course aims at empowerment and integration of Community Leaders, so as to enable them to understand the fundamentals of community care and to make use of management tools to provide an efficient service at field level.
The course will be run in 12 modules which encompass the general principles of community services management, community based environmental education as well as project development and management.
This project is based on a successful pre-feasibility study funded partly by a planning grant under the GEF Small Grants Programme, under which a two-day seminar on ?Community Services Management for a Sustainable Community Development? was organised by CODEPA. One of the main findings highlighted is that there is a crucial lack of appropriate capacity building programmes for community leaders. Hence the development of this training course by CODEPA, aimed at community leaders, particularly those who have difficulty in accessing formal channels of training.
The primary objective of this project is to develop and organise a comprehensive training course over six months for Community Leaders. The course aims at empowerment and integration of Community Leaders, so as to enable them to understand the fundamentals of community care and to make use of management tools to provide an efficient service at field level.
The course will be run in 12 modules which encompass the general principles of community services management, community based environmental education as well as project development and management.
This project is based on a successful pre-feasibility study funded partly by a planning grant under the GEF Small Grants Programme, under which a two-day seminar on ?Community Services Management for a Sustainable Community Development? was organised by CODEPA. One of the main findings highlighted is that there is a crucial lack of appropriate capacity building programmes for community leaders. Hence the development of this training course by CODEPA, aimed at community leaders, particularly those who have difficulty in accessing formal channels of training.
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Project Snapshot
Grantee:
Community Development Programme Agency
Country:
Mauritius
Area Of Work:
Multifocal Area
Grant Amount:
US$ 24,863.00
Co-Financing Cash:
US$ 24,309.00
Co-Financing in-Kind:
Project Number:
MAR/02/05
Status:
Satisfactorily Completed
Project Characteristics and Results
Capacity - Building Component
Capacity-building project
Notable Community Participation
The training programme is based on the principle of ?Sustainable Community Driven Development (SCDD), which is an innovative concept combining training and community action. It is tailored for community leaders who need capacity building to identify, initiate and monitor community based environmental actions and related projects.
CODEPA intends to propose the training course for registration with the Mauritius Qualification Authority (MQA) in a second phase. This second phase would also include other modules which are driven by the Ministry Social Security. These would include:
§ Mediation skills
§ Gang hooliganism and community violence
§ Community policing
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SGP Country office contact
Mrs. Pamela Bapoo-Dundoo
Phone:
(230) 213 53 84
Fax:
(230) 212 14 11
Email:
Address
2nd Floor, Sugar Industry Pension Fund Building, 1 Remy Ollier Street
Port Louis, Mauritius
Port Louis, Mauritius
Country Website
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