• Overview of poverty in SA and specifically in area of residence.
• Identification of development projects.
• Identify needs of community
• Viability of projects
• Sourcing of additional funding
• Implementation
Community Development Training Courses
Farm Committee Training
Community Development
Project Planning (Including: Scheduling & Organising)
- Vision (Path out of poverty)
- Types of plans
- Elements of planning
- Planning tips
- SWOT-analysis
Goal Setting & Reaching of Goals
- What are goals?
- Types of goals
- Feedback
- Acknowledgements
- SMART Goals
Committee Training
- Purpose
- Compile Constitution/ Code of Conduct
- Roles/Responsibilities
- Chair person
- Secretary
- Treasurer
Decision Making
• Definition
• Process
• Difference between cause and symptom
• Types of problems
Meetings
- Planning for meetings
- Agenda
- Minutes
- Meeting schedule
- Time Management
- Record keeping
Leadership & Management
- Definition
- Difference between leaders and managers
- Leadership styles
- Skills of:
- Leaders
- Managers
Motivation
- Definition
- Motivation theories
- Maslow
- Herzberg
- Performance management
Communication
- Definition
- Process
- Filters
- Listening skills
- Non-verbal communication
Diversity
- Types of diversity (as indicated in Constitution)
- Diversity blockages
Conflict Resolution
• Definition
• Types of conflict
• Conflict handling styles
• Tips for the resolution of conflict
• How to defuse conflict situations
• Reaching of consensus (Negotiation)
Negotiation/Community Participation
• How to reach consensus through negotiation
Farm Committee Training: Refresher
Personal Assessment
• Overview of poverty in SA and specifically in area of residence.
• Identification of development projects.
• Identify needs of community
• Viability of projects
• Sourcing of additional funding
• Implementation
Review of Community Development Projects
- SWOT analysis
- Identify the need for a project
- Choose a project
- Identify a Project Leader
- Assign tasks to project team
- Plan the actual project according to time schedules, roll players, costs and money needed
- Implementation of a project
- Manage the project
- Evaluate the project with focus on planning-, implementing- and evaluation phases.
- Closure procedures of project
- Examples of community projects
Leadership of a Team
- Leadership a necessity on every level of a person’s life:- personal, relationships, groups & teams, organizations & communities.
- Seven steps to take when leading your team:
- Purpose – why are we doing this?
- Values and behaviors – how will the team members treat each other?
- Is there a shared vision? – Where is there?
- The strategy – how will we make the project happen?
- Roles and responsibilities – Which does what in the team?
- Processes – How will the team work together?
- Support and development – How do we grow each other?
- Practical, brainstorming and role play sessions
- Community participation in community projects:
- What is community participation?
- Taking ownership of projects
- Information about and knowledge of projects
- Determination of community’s skills, experience and ability to make a contribution to identified projects
- Blockages that can potentially harm community projects
- Review on the steps to be taken when developing a community project. (Practical session)-Completion of farm profile
- Completion of community profile
- Completion of community members’ skills and knowledge profile
Funding a Community Development Project
• What is a “financial” poverty mindset?
• What is good and bad financial management?
• What are your dreams (financially)?
• We can do more together than on our own. How can we help each other to become better off financially?
• Saving for life – understanding sound personal saving methods, teach us to implement sound saving methods in community projects
• Setting financial goals
• Personal budgeting
• Project budgeting
• Practical session: compiling of a personal budget
• Funding strategies – how to convince potential funders of need to fund, how not to waste funds allocated
• Fund raising methods
• Explain funding formula – A.I.D.A.
• Practical session: compiling of community development project budget
• Evaluation/assessment of budgets
Implement and Lead a Community Development Project
How to lead a Project. Combine knowledge to implement a community development project in practice by using the following steps:
• What is the why? – a passionate purpose for your project
• Where is here? – Start with the current realities (what resources do we already have in hand?)
• Where is there? – What is our shared vision for our project?
• What will I focus on? – Focus on the key areas
• Who are my partners? – Build relationships with people who can help achieving our goals
• What are the steps from here to there? – Do a step by step plan for every day of the project
• Keep a tight grip on the project’s finances.
• How to keep time – Time management
• Manage conflict
• Role plays and brainstorming sessions
• Practical: Compile final joint social Community Development Project
• Final evaluation of project
• Reporting back
• Completion of “tick” list for social community development projects’ activities.
Capacity Building
MODULE 1: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
• Project planning
• Defining typical projects
• Criteria to which a project must comply with in order to be successful
• The different phases of a typical project
• Leadership qualities
• Communication
• Time Management
• Interpersonal skills
MODULE 2: ORGANISATION BUILDING
- Different levels of authoritative institutions
- Procedures during the foundation of a society or organisation
- Meeting procedures
- Compiling of a constitution
- Compiling a logistic framework, work programme and prioritised activities
- Compiling a business plan for funding purposes
MODULE 3: ADMINISTRATION
- Handling of correspondence regarding official matters
- Writing of memo’s official letters, fax’s, reports, formal reports, memorandums and submissions
- Basic office administration and filing
- Telephone etiquette and techniques
MODULE 4: FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
- How to open a bank account
- How to use a bank cash card
- How to apply for a loan
- Basic bookkeeping
- Budgeting
- Calculating cost
- Determining needs
- Types of capital sources
- Calculating cost
- Interest
- Documentation used in a business
- Credit facilities
MODULE 5: GENERAL MANAGEMENT
- Planning
- Organising
- Leadership
- Control
Farm Together Cooperative Training
Module1: Getting Started
• Introducing Farm together
• Introducing the Simulation to the Participants
• Simulation 1 (SIM) Round 1: Planning a Farm
• Simulation 1 (SIM) Round 2: Dealing with limited resources
• Meet the Farm together Characters
• Introduction to Farm together Check up
• How well are we doing?
• The Check Up Chart
• Record Keeping: Cash Record
• Simulation 2: Managing Money Wisely
• Agreements Dilemma 1: Why Cooperate?
• Our Co-op Values: Why we are in a cooperative.
• Our Co-op Agreements
• Agreements Dilemma 2: Dealing with Conflict
• Farm Check up: Our Farm – Work card 1
• Planning a Wedding: The washing line Planning Methodology
• Our Farm Action plan
• Simulation 3: Running a farm for four seasons
• Working out yield per area: Group Discussion
• Simulation 3: Running A Farm For Four More Seasons
• Farm Check up: Resources – Work card 2
• Home Tasks
• Appendix Module 1: Related unit standards, specific outcomes and assessment criteria
Module 2: Setting Direction
• Community market size exercise
• Simulation 4: Dealing with changes in market prices
• Agreements Dilemma 3: Office bearers
• Farm Check-up Work card 3: Markets
• Write your own Contract
• How to evaluate a Market
• Simulation 5: Dealing with changes in market demand
• Agreements Dilemma 4: Decision making
• Home tasks
• Appendix Module 2: Related unit standards, specific outcomes and assessment criteria
Module 3: Making it Work
- Agreements Dilemma 5: Setting Goals
- Simulation 6: Dealing with Market Contracts
- Working out the change in the value of assets
- Farm Check up: Skills – Work card 4
- Division of Labour: Who does what?
- Agreements Dilemma 6: Joining
- Agreements Dilemma 7: Meetings
- Farm Check up: Management Systems – Work card 5
- Agreements Dilemma 8: Dividing Money
- Home tasks
- Appendix Module 3: Related unit standards, specific outcomes and assessment criteria
Module 4: Making it Sustainable
- Simulation 7: Investing in our Farm business
- Checking the value of our simulation assets
- Agreements Dilemma 9: Leaving
- Farm Check Up: Externals Work card 6
- Simulation 8: Dealing With the Unexpected
- Basic Budgets
- Agreement dilemma 10: Records
- Farmtogether review
- Record keeping review
Module 5: Making it Strong
- Simulation 9: Planning our own farm production
- Simulation 9: Planning our own farm production Year 2
- Putting it all together: Financial statements
- Adding Value and Product promotion
- Agreements Dilemma 11: Accountability
- Farm check up Work card 7: Support
- Review of Farm check up Work cards 1- 6
- Agreements Dilemma 12: Changing rules
- Talking about Cooperatives: Dept. of Trade and Industry Regulations for Cooperatives selected texts
- Role play: Cooperating with other Cooperative
- Farm Check up Work card 8: Our Farm together Vision
- Our Farm together Action plan
- Home tasks
- Appendix Module 5: Related unit standards, specific outcomes and assessment criteria
Module 6: Making it Ours
- Checking our agreements
- How well are we doing: Farm check up Chart 2
- Building a business plan: Managing income and expenditure
- Building a budget: Group budgeting exercise
- Understanding Financial statements
- Preparing Our Farm Business plans
- Group presentation
- Appendix Module 6: Dept. of trade and industry Regulations for Cooperatives and web addresses