YEAR 1 MODULE 1
Hello everyone and welcome to an exciting course on social work. It consists of competencies that a person must achieve to enable him/her to be certified as a Social Worker. It involves Conducting community awareness training and sensitization, carrying out advocacy and lobbying activities, carrying out crisis and disaster management and manage community-based groups.
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This unit describes the competencies required to coordinate conflict resolution and management. It involves identifying target group, establishing conflict cause, developing conflict resolution measures, monitoring conflict resolution process, managing community conflicts and documenting conflict resolution and management activities.
This unit specifies the required to carry out risis and disaster management. It involves establishing crisis/disaster nature, initiating crisis and disaster partnerships, contacting crisis and disaster links, developing crisis and disaster preparedness, mobilizing response resources and carrying out crisis/disaster intervention measures. It also includes evaluating prevention and response implementation plan and documenting disaster/crisis management.
This unit specifies the competencies required to conduct community awareness training and sensitization. It involves identifying community awareness needs, determining community awareness programmes, developing community awareness plan, obtaining resources required, developing sensitization partnerships and linkages and carrying out awareness outreach campaigns. It also entails evaluating community awareness and sensitization programmes and documenting community awareness and sensitization programmes.
This unit describes the competencies required to carry out advocacy and lobbying activities. It involves identifying target groups, carrying out problem analysis, assessing advocacy resources, gathering advocacy resources, preparing advocacy campaign plan, building advocacy partnerships carrying out advocacy and lobbying activities and undertaking advocacy and lobbying follow up. It also includes documenting advocacy and lobbying activities.
