Training
Programs in Community-Based Development
For more than 15 years Village Earth has trained and consulted with organizations from around the world. Hundreds of project directors, community leaders, grassroots activists, funders, students, volunteers, and field workers from community-based organizations to large intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations have participated in our wide array of training opportunities.
Village Earth uses as its basis, a framework of rights-based development and the Village Earth Approach. This multi-sectoral, participatory approach focuses on the empowerment of people as both the ends and means of a genuine sustainable development process.
In-person Short Courses
Our Community Mobilization Intensive Workshop, a 4-day course designed to meet the need of busy professionals, focuses on the role of Community Mobilization in the broader development framework, providing the theory and tools necessary to develop strategies for understanding power dynamics in community development, increase trust and communication, and enhance participation in the initial phases of development initiatives.
Our Participatory Practices for Sustainable Development course was the first course to be developed and offered by Village Earth. This course explores both the theory and practice of community-based development, focusing on practical tools and skills for cultivating indigenous leadership, mobilizing communities for collective action, accessing resources, and developing long-enduring community-based institutions. Through dialogue, activities, case studies, and other exercises, participants will learn how to work with community members to identify their vision for the future and create the relationships, institutions, and appropriate technologies to move towards it. The techniques taught in this course are based on best practices in participatory, bottom-up approaches to development proven effective throughout the world by Village Earth and our partner organizations.
Online Courses
Village Earth in partnership with the International Institute for Sustainable Development provide innovative online training courses through Colorado State University's Department of Continuing Education to provide students with practical tools to meet today’s challenges. Students can enroll in just one course or complete four courses to receive a Colorado State University certificate in Community-based Development. Admission to Colorado State University is NOT required, making this unique program easily available to all who would like to participate.
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Specialized Training and Consultation Services
We also offer a wide array of specialized training and consultation services. Our NEW "Preparing for Service" training was developed for service learning organizations to better ready their participants for overseas experiences. We also offer a specialized short course for chapters of Engineers Without Borders.
Whatever your trainings need, Village Earth can develop tailored training programs and curriculum for your project managers, field staff, or community leaders on a range of topics. We can deliver the trainings at our facilities at Colorado State University or in the field anywhere around the globe. Village Earth can offer one or two-week courses or more intensive short courses to fit the needs of your organization both online and in-person. Village Earth can also provide consultation, evaluation and networking services to individuals, communities, non governmental organizations (NGOs), governments, and academic institutions. We can work with your group to develop a tailored and affordable package of services to help enhance the effectiveness of your programs in the field. We offer trainings in our community empowerment approach, mobilization and participation techniques, appropriate technology, participatory monitoring and evaluation, organizational capacity building, community-based mapping, participatory GIS, regional and cluster development programs, survey and evaluation research (qualitative & quantitative) and participatory video production.
Who should take these trainings? Our courses are ideally suited for organizations and individuals working in multi-sector, regional/cluster, integrated, and intermediate development projects where communities are free to determine their own development priorities. For individuals and organizations working on single-sector projects, our training programs can give you tools to determine the appropriateness of your development intervention based on community-determined priorities.
Village Earth's training programs will benefit development practitioners, project directors, and volunteers working with local or international NGOs. Government officials, funding agencies, community leaders, extension workers, and relief workers making the transition to development (or post disaster reconstruction), students, and academics will also find these courses useful for their work and studies.
The following are just some of the organizations to which we have provided training and/or consulting services: CARE in Bosnia, Mercy Corps in Azerbaijan, CHF in Azerbaijan, IRC in Azerbaijan, Armenia Round Table, USDA, The Government of Sri Lanka, The Government of Cameroon, The Government of South Africa, Nigeria Youth Service Corps, Engineers Without Borders, and Trisakti University-Indonesia.
To receive a free consultation about your group's training needs today, contact Jamie Way at jamie@villageearth.org or call us today at +1-970-491-5754.
También se habla español - para información en español póngase en contacto con Jamie Way, jamie@villageearth.org, o por teléfono al +1-970-491-5754.
Above: Participants in a Village Earth-IISD seminar at
Colorado State University discuss a group project.
**Village Earth encourages participants with no funding to seek sponsorship in their respective countries, as we are currently unable to provide sponsorship for our training services. Many times development banks and international aid agencies have funding available for international training opportunities.
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