Community Driven Development: Building Effective Local Services through Community Empowerment and Local Leadership

Overview:
Governments should openly respond to, engage with and support the needs and capabilities of the whole population they serve. Citizens need to believe that they themselves can influence local decisions and participate in developing their community and country.

National schemes, led by every shade of government and backed by multilateral donors and other trans-national agencies, are seeking to facilitate greater civic participation and political involvement at the local level.

This highly practical and work-focused programme offers key insights into contemporary initiatives here in the UK. There will be facilitated development sessions, speakers looking at the theory and practice of engagement, and visits to projects and initiatives with representatives of local authorities, community groups and local agencies. Participants will be encouraged to develop their own enquiry, during the workshop, into greater civic participation and community empowerment and to work on their own practical projects.