Empowering communities

This free course, Empowering communities, discusses the most common forms of community empowerment, and explores the barriers to community empowerment and ways that these can be overcome. It will conclude by looking at crime and criminality: a particular challenge that can arise if communities are not sufficiently empowered and supported.This course was produced by The Open University in association with the Police Service of Northern Ireland. 

• Introduction
• 1 Empowering communities to help themselves
• 1 Empowering communities to help themselves
• 1.1 The principles and rights of community empowerment
• 1.2 Key elements of community empowerment
• 2 Third Sector involvement
• 2 Third Sector involvement
• 2.1 Examples of the Third Sector in practice
• 2.2 Barriers and incentives to community empowerment
• 3 Active citizenship and stakeholder engagement
• 3 Active citizenship and stakeholder engagement
• 3.1 Volunteering
• 4 Participatory budgeting
• 4 Participatory budgeting
• 4.1 Participatory budgeting in action
• 5 Empowering communities to deal more effectively with crime and criminality
• 5 Empowering communities to deal more effectively with crime and criminality
• 5.1 The role of government and communities
• 6 Conclusion
• 6 Conclusion
• References
• Acknowledgements