Purpose: so that people can take individual and collective action to bring about change.

Context: CLD practice is built on critical analysis of internal and external factors that influence individual and community priorities and has a distinctive role in working with people to take action to identify and influence decisions that impact on the quality of individual and community life.

As a competent practitioner able to facilitate and promote community empowerment you will be able to demonstrate that you can support individuals, groups and communities to:

• analyse and understand power dynamics and decision-making processes;
• use community action as a means to achieve change;
• be inclusive and involve the wider community;
• interact within and across communities;
• participate in decision-making structures and processes;
• campaign for change;
• identify and manage community assets.