Environmental policy and administrative management

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.

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