"How to make your partnerships and forums more successful and empower more effective participation of marginalised groups"

Voluntary sector is about involvement, participation and empowerment. Yet many government programmes open to or targeting the voluntary sector fail to achieve genuine representation and participation of the groups whose interests and needs are directly affected by the programmes. On the other hand, most of the partnerships, forums, and consortia set up by infrastructure organisations and networks often fail to produce genuine sustainable and meaningful involvement and participation of the targeted groups. What is participation? What is representation? What is empowerment? What are the theoretical and practical problems which affect strategies and processes of participation? What are the obstacles and challenges? How can the challenges be identified and dealt with? How can we ensure the success and sustainability of our partnerships and forums?

These are some of the questions which will effectively be answered in this one-day training course. We guarantee that by the end of the day you will have identified at least five main challenges relevant to your own area of work and/or forum and have been provided with at least five effective conceptual practical tools to ensure a successful implementation of an empowerment strategy that will help you to work more confidently and insightfully with, in particular, marginalised and disadvantaged groups.

The training is an exclusive original programme developed by MODA’s Director, based on 15 years of working with disadvantaged groups and academic study of the voluntary sector, initially in response to the need of refugee and migrant forums to enable them to ensure genuine representation and participation of their targeted communities. But the content has been developed to tackle the issues and mechanisms of representation, participation and empowerment in relation to all organisational strategies aiming at extending and empowering the scope of involvement of beneficiary minority groups. Thus the training is relevant and definitely useful to government bodies with strategies and projects for voluntary and community sector participation, third-tier and second tier organisations acting as umbrella groups, community networks, councils of voluntary service and various community forums, consortium s and partnerships.

Fees - £50 for voluntary and community sector forums and organisations; £75 for second-tier and large organisations; £150 for public organisations. Maximum number for each training day is 21 people.

Evaluation and guarantee of refund - There will be a participatory and formal evaluation of the training. If any participant feels he or she has not benefited from the course she can express this on the formal evaluation form and claim the refund of the fees paid. We will gladly do this without any further ado.

How to book - You can book this training to be provided in-house specifically for your forum, network, consortium, etc. In this case fees will be negotiable.

For further information and booking - please email: info@moda.org.uk

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