Leadership in Community Development

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leadership in community

development
BY: DELAL & DELIYA ALI
Key Concepts

 Community must play a key role in defining


 Skills, energies and resources exist within the
community
 Coordination will increase impact
 New alliances will continue after the project itself
has ended
Goals of Leadership
Development
 Enhance neighborhood organizing and leadership skills of
residents

 Assure that organization has capacity to lead and continue


the work

 Develop skills that encourage participation, facilitate


consensus building, share responsibility, identify new
leaders and enable groups to work together to achieve their
goals

 Connect people with others inside the neighborhood


around issues that they care about and that they think will
improve the quality of life there
Our work
 Organizing citizen involvement
 Outreach
 Develop coalition
 Develop community plans
Strategies Used
 Workshops
 Dialogues
 Training
 Working with groups
The four elements of leadership
The leader recognizes that:
1. Action is necessary
2. Action is possible
3. S/he personally must act
4. The leader mobilizes others
to believe that:
 Action is necessary
 Action is possible
 They personally must act
The rest is:
Analysis
Planning
Management
What leadership is not
Recognizing there is a problem
Raising awareness about the problem
Complaining that no one is doing anything
about the problem
Community Leadership
Development
A program that:
1. Brings together potential leaders from business,
civil society, and (sometimes) government
2. Helps them to recognize the need to act by
educating them about the community’s needs
3. Helps them to recognize that action is possible
by showing them models for action
4. Builds skills needed for them to act
5. Creates a network for future collective action
The Community Development
Triad
Mobilizes business to
promote economic
development
Community
Business
Partnership
Channels
Builds skills
donor
and
Community funds to
connections Community
Leadership local needs
Foundation
Group
THANK YOU!

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