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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Open College Network Northern Ireland has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Open College Network Northern Ireland awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Open College Network Northern Ireland.
This qualification introduces learners to the principles and practices of community development. It enables individuals to understand and engage with communities, as well as appreciate the purpose and values underpinning community development work. It is relevant for those involved in direct learning support roles.
These are the units Open College Network Northern Ireland registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Open College Network Northern Ireland. It does the teaching and the mapping. Open College Network Northern Ireland sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Community Development Practice Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand and engage with communities, recognising their diverse characteristics and needs
- Understand the purpose and values of community development practice, including its ethical principles and goals
- Understand group work and collective action, recognising the dynamics and benefits of collaborative efforts
- Understand collaborative and cross-sectoral working, appreciating the importance of partnerships and shared resources
- Be aware of governance and organisational development, recognising the structures and processes that support community organisations
- Know why community learning for social change is important, understanding its role in empowering individuals and communities
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
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Encourage and support public bodies to build effective relationships with communities
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Encourage and support public bodies to build relationships with communities
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Facilitate Community Leadership
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Facilitate community leadership
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Facilitate community learning for social and political development
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Get to know a community
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Get to know a community
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Integrate and use the values and process of community development
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Manage internal organisational development and external relationships
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Promote and support effective relationships between communities and public bodies and other agencies
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Promote and support effective relationships between communities and public bodies and other agencies
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Promote opportunities for community development learning
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Promote opportunities for community development learning
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Relate to Different Communities
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Relate to Different Communities
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Strategically Co-ordinate Networks and Partnerships
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Strengthen the Organisational Development of Groups
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Strengthen the organisational development of groups
Showing 18 of 21 standards these units map to.
The credits, and who awards them
Level 1 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Open College Network Northern Ireland rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Community Development Practice
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
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“Community Development Practice” is taught against the work in front of you rather than a worked example. You bring what you are doing this week and it becomes the practice.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Encourage and support public bodies to build effective relationships with communities
- Encourage and support public bodies to build relationships with communities
- Facilitate Community Leadership
- Facilitate community learning for social and political development
- Get to know a community
- Integrate and use the values and process of community development
- Manage internal organisational development and external relationships
- Promote and support effective relationships between communities and public bodies and other agencies
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Community Development Practice, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your own work
This unit provides learners with an understanding of community development practice, including its purpose, values, and ethical principles. Learners will explore group work dynamics, collective action, collabourative partnerships, and governance within community settings.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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