Community Mobilization Leadership and Empowerment

About the Book

The book, with its four chapters, addresses three important processes in the development sphere: namely mobilization, leadership, and empowerment. The book explores the relation and the link of the three processes, explaining their action implementation at the community level. The book advocates the use a human inclusion approach to development. Relevant literature are critically reviewed from published International and national books, articles and reports. Chapter 1 of the book introduces some related concepts that usually assist of the explanation of three processes. Chapter 2 gives an understanding of the community mobilization process: its methods of action planning and implementation. Chapter 3 explains the different perspectives of community leadership. Community empowerment as a new concept emerged recently in development is cortically explained, its understanding related to different community groups. The book is recommended for development and community-work students, researchers, and workers who are using bottom-up and human-development approaches of development.

About the Author

Dr. Nagwa Babiker Abdalla Yousif is an assistant professor in the Sociology Department, College of Humanities and Sciences, Ajman University (AU). She taught a diverse number of courses in the fields of sociology and social work. Before joining AU, she was an assistant professor at Ahfad University, teaching various courses in the fields of psychology, community development, social work, research methodology, and preschool education. Also, she worked with the British organization HelpAge International, in the position of National Programme Coordinator–Sudan, and as UN Expert in the fields of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation of Social Projects (in Yemen and Bangladesh), Planning Manager Advisor for Decentralization Policy (in Malawi), and Gender Trainer and Community Development Specialist (in Jordan) with the United Nations Organizations. She also worked with GTZ as programme manager consultant in Yemen’s Integrated Development Project. She did her PhD in development studies at the University of South Africa; her master’s degree and postgraduate diploma in social development at Reading University, United Kingdom; and her graduate diploma in psychology and preschool education at Ahfad University for Women, Sudan. She is a faculty of Sociology and Social Work disciplines. Her research interest lies in the areas of multidisciplinary researches, assessments of social work and social development programmes and projects, women’s socioeconomic empowerment, gender issues, youth, elder people, early childhood education, and people with special needs. Dr. Shadia A. M. Daoud is a professor in rural social development for the School of Rural Extension Education and Development (REED), Ahfad University for Women, in Omdurman, Sudan. She has taught a diverse number of courses on research methodology, rural development, rural extension, cultural and social aspects of food and nutrition, nonformal education, peace education, and community development. In addition, Shadia has more than twenty-five years’ worth of national and international working experiences and research in community development, social exclusion, gender equality and women’s empowerment, socioeconomic impact of development projects, and management of natural resources. Shadia Daoud has conducted more than twenty short assignments as advisor-consultant for international and national organizations—for example, WHO, FAO, IFAD, World Bank, Dutch Consortium for Rehabilitation, Red Cross and Red Crescent, GIZ, UNICEF, Concern, IGAD, UNIIFPA, Tufts University, SMEC International, Aslo University, Cape Town University, and Plan–Sudan. Shadia Daoud has worked for six years as a gender trainer and community development specialist in Pakistan, Zanzibar, and the Maldives Islands. She has work contributions to local communities and participated in mobilizing and organizing more than one hundred community-based organizations in different parts of Sudan. She has also published four books and ten training manuals at national level in community development and rural development.