Competence D: Facilitate and promote community empowerment

Purpose

So that people can take individual and collective action to bring about change.

Context

CLD practice is built on critical analysis of internal and external factors that influence individual and community priorities and has a distinctive role in working with people to take action to identify and influence decisions that impact on the quality of individual and community life.

As a competent practitioner able to facilitate and promote community empowerment you will be able to demonstrate that you can support individuals, groups and communities to:

• analyse and understand power dynamics and decision-making processes
• use community action as a means to achieve change
• be inclusive and involve the wider community
• interact within and across communities
• participate in decision-making structures and processes
• campaign for change
• identify and manage community assets