Community conversations is one of the most successful approaches to enhancing community capacity. These scripts contain actual community conversations as recorded in East, Central and Southern African countries in the late Eighties. They are among the best anyone will see recorded. (The facilitators and documentors were among the top rated).
Following an introduction to community counselling, the reader is permitted to sit in a conversation with the team or community. The reader will be given a ... more »

Community conversations is one of the most successful approaches to enhancing community capacity. These scripts contain actual community conversations as recorded in East, Central and Southern African countries in the late Eighties. They are among the best anyone will see recorded. (The facilitators and documentors were among the top rated).
Following an introduction to community counselling, the reader is permitted to sit in a conversation with the team or community. The reader will be given a seat among the participants. The reader is encouraged to jot some notes and if necessary drop a line into the suggestion box at the end of the session.
Community conversations are a versatile tool that may be used in building community capacity for dealing with issues ranging from development programming to addressing HIV/AIDS, needs of orphans and vulnerable children and reversing gender inequalities.
A brief introduction is provided along with comments at the end of each conversation to shed some light on the content.  Less