Poverty, illbeing and wellbeing -- The development environment -- Stakeholders in community -- The principles of community development -- The features and outcome of community development -- The community as main actor in community development -- The place and role of community development workers -- Community development workers and their organisations -- Participatory decision-making problem-solving and management -- Communication skills -- Group facilitation and leadership development -- Conflict resolution, mediation and negotiation -- Mobilisation and motivation -- Operational writing -- Meetings -- Public speaking -- Contact-making -- Participatory research methodology -- The start of a project -- Planning and implementation -- Evaluation and control -- The training dialogue -- Planning and presenting a training workshop.