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About the Course

Details

BEGINS: 2024-05-10

DURATION: 4 week

INVESTMENT: 250

LANGUAGE: English

TEAMS: 15% GROUP DISCOUNT (3 OR MORE PEOPLE.)

Total time commitment: 15 hours

Welcome to the Principles of Good Local Development course!

This course is for anyone wanting to learn the fundamental principles of doing good local development. It is a practical course, breaking down the core principles, strategies, tools and mindset to help you improve your work and local impact.

Throughout the 4 weeks, you will be taken step-by-step through a structured program, building your skills in supporting locally-led aid and development in a manner that is effective and legitimate.

IS THE COURSE FOR ME?

This course is designed for all levels.

If you're new to development work, the course will take you step-by-step through the concepts and tools to give you a solid grounding in the basics.

If you're more experienced, the course will allow you to reflect on and reframe your work to date, linking your technical and sectoral expertise with practical tools and strategies to improve results on the ground.

Course Outline

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BONUS MASTERCLASSES:

Using the Power-Sharing Spectrum
Using the Bridging Peoples Framework for Localisation
Community Organising
Hybrid & Customary Governance

Bonus trainings are recorded sessions with network members from
Africa, SE Asia and Middle East, to demonstrate how they put the ideas and tools
shared in this course into practice in their work

Course Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

Analyse the top-down and bottom-up elements to your, and other organisations', work - and trace the factors leading to this situation.

Recognise charity-based versus justice-based approaches in your sector, and develop strategies to working in greater solidarity with community members.

Understand the real contributing factors to the problem of community dependency, how this intersects with the saviour complex, and how to address these issues in your own work.

Measure the extent to which you and your organisation share power with community members, and develop a strategy to open up your project to greater community involvement.

Understand the importance of customary/traditional law & religious and cultural norms, and engage effectively with these systems as part of your basic operating environment.

Deborah Cummins

Deborah Cummins is the Director of Bridging Peoples. She has a PhD on local governance and democratisation, and has been working as a local governance and community engagement specialist since 2005.

During this time, she has worked in numerous countries, leading teams to provide research, monitoring & evaluation, policy analysis and program development support on a range of issues.

She has published widely on issues of decentralisation, community engagement, local governance, livelihoods and markets, justice delivery and gender issues.

FAQs

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SATISFACTION GUARANTEE

We want you to be really happy with your investment in Principles of Good Local Development. We're confident that with all of the knowledge, goodness, and practical wisdom that is packed into this course, you will be happy.

But if you're not: all you need to do is email us at academy@bridgingpeoples.com within seven days of your course commencing, and we'll refund your money, minus 5% of the full price to cover admin costs. You will need to complete and provide your first two reflection sheets as proof that you have been engaging with the materials.

We're sure you won't need to use this guarantee. But we're offering it because we want you to feel really confident in investing in this course

Principles of Good Local Development