Community Development Program
Contributing to regeneration of local communities through building human capital capable to lead for wellbeing.
Key pillars of our community-development approach are community empowerment, local government empowerment, accountability, transparency and learning by doing. With these pillars in place, CCE’s community interventions create sustainable and wide-ranging impacts by mobilizing communities and giving them tools to become agents of their own development.
Public Entities Support
Community Support
CCE Involvement
CCE supports the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) in the implementation of reforms aimed at enhancing its decision-making capabilities, through supporting the PNA in policy formulation, national strategic planning, and institutional development (financial resources management, human resources, and operational system development, monitoring and evaluation systems, procedure development, etc.).
CCE considers community development as a process of building the community’s social capital (leaders, organizations, and socially active groups), with an ultimate goal of enabling community members to take charge of the conditions and factors (internal and external) that influence their lives, and initiate and lead the process of positive changes in the community life. We believe that the community development process should focus primarily at enhancing living conditions for the most marginalized groups including women, elderly, farmers, people with special needs, poor families, children, and unemployed youth.
In our community development interventions, we work hand-by-hand with community leaders and marginalized people. We educate them on, and assist in identification of most critical issues hampering community well-being, planning for resolving those issues, and managing limited community developmental resources. Our implementation approach and methodology support participatory decision-making, local capacity building, community control of resources, and empowerment of marginalized groups such as women, youth, poor, and disabled people.
We Assist communities in assessing, planning for, and managing developmental resources. Our implementation approaches and methodologies support participatory decision making, local capacity building, community control of resources, and empowerment of marginalized groups such as women, youth, the poor, and people with disability.
We Build the capacities of local government units to lead the community development process and be pro-active in fundraising for their communities’ developmental needs. Our interventions aim at ensuring that local government is both strengthened and accountable, effective and efficient in-service delivery, and build the social capital.
- Classic community development based on a participatory planning
- Children Driven Community Development
- Development of national sectoral and ministerial strategic plans
- Development of operational systems
- Capacity-building of ministerial management and staff
- Operational systems and procedures
- Turning community into a green zone enjoying clean environment and sustainable production and consumption Participatory decision making
- Local capacity building
- Community control of resources
- Empowerment of marginalized groups such as women, youth, the poor, and people with disability
Interfacing the University with the Community: As an outreach arm of the University into the community, with extensive experience and networks with the local community, CCE acts as an interface linking students with community projects, be it community-based projects or business projects and start-ups