Siyakhula Trust: Community Facilitation Programme

Siyakhula Trust is a NGO that assists community leaders, CBOs, NPOs and government officials develop skills so that they can efficiently initiate and manage development and job creation projects to the benefit of the communities they serve. Siyakhula Trust is conducting its practical Community Facilitation Programme in two different centres in South Africa in the months to come.

The course is aimed at enabling managers and officers working in government departments, national agencies and NPOs who work with communities and projects, to effectively participate in initiating, supporting and managing those projects to ensure a successful outcome. This course can be held exclusively as an in-house option for your organisation.

Target Group:

• LED officers
• Liaison officers
• Extension officers
• Social workers
• Field workers
• Mayors
• Speakers
• Councilors
• Health workers
• Care givers
• Sport workers community development workers
• Officers in national, provincial and municipal spheres of government
• NPOs and CBOs

 Course Content 

• Understanding the dynamics of change and implications for community projects
• Analysing the community situation
• Problem solving and risk analysis
• Consulting with relevant community stakeholders
• Scoping the project
• Producing a project plan
• Selecting and using project tools
• Preparing a project budget
• Managing the project 
• Conducting community project meetings
• Establishing controls, monitoring and evaluation techniques
• Wrapping up the project
• Consulting with sponsors or agencies
• Evaluating the progress of the project
• Preparation and submission of project reports

This programme is accredited by the Services SETA has been aligned to the following Unit Standards.

U/S ID No: 120373
Title: Contributing to project initiation, scope definition and scope change control
Level: 4
Credit: 9

U/S ID No: 120385
Title: Apply a range of project management tools
Level: 4
Credit: 8

U/S ID No: 120375
Title: Participate in the estimation and preparation of cost budget for an element of work and monitor and control actual cost against budget
Level: 4
Credit: 6

This programme is also registered with the SA Council for Social Services Professionals and earns 25 PDP points

Date and Location:

• Johannesburg: 16 – 20 February 2009
• Bloemfontein: 25 – 29 May 2009

Contact Person: Mothusi Ndlovu, tel: 011 886 2647, fax: 011 789 1269, email: mothusin@siyakhula.org.za

For more information on Siyakhula Trust, click here.