This course provides a general orientation to the program planning issues of developing countries. The course will cover a number of management and policy issues surrounding the administration of community health and social service programs. It will explore a variety of models for carrying out community-based service programs. Discussion will center around the benefits and burdens of using cooperatives as a development tool. An important element of any community-based development initiative is the way families gain their livelihoods.
Women play a pivotal role in securing their families' livelihoods.
They must make decisions regarding family health, income, shelter, and education. All these decisions have financial implications. A viable community must assure that there are institutions in place to support women in these decisions. This course examines such institutions. This course will look at the characteristics of the informal sector businesses that crowd the lowest rung of the economic scale and examine ways of assisting these income-generating initiatives of the poor.