This project was a pilot to expand the successful EBB model and apply it to community development. Working as a consultant, Mr. Kelly worked with community leaders and stakeholders in the Oromia Region to facilitate and train in effective visioning, goal setting and action planning processes.
Though teacher development and empowerment projects may be the catalyst and foundation to community development, there will often be other issues that must be addressed and that is why it is important to develop and implement a model that encompasses a holistic approach to community development and does not just look at one aspect.
Though it is preferable to partner with one or two stakeholders initially when starting a development project, if it is to be sustained beyond the initiating organisation’s presence, then multiple stakeholders need to be involved in the designing, implementation and evaluation of the project.
