Positive Principle
By focusing on strengths and assets instead of only needs and deficiencies, communities can grow with hope, confidence, and self-belief.
Trainings
About the Trainings
COMMUNITY CENTERED DEVELOPMENT
As a partner with the 5&2 Network, we carry a shared mission: to activate leadership that transforms communities from the inside out. Through our trainings, we empower leaders to take action and create change where they are.
Wholeness Principle
When everyone is included in the community-building process, cooperation, trust, and resilience can grow more naturally.
Ownership Principle
When a community has the power to shape its own vision and use its own resources, success becomes more sustainable.
Organic Principle
Real community growth happens from within, using the strengths, people, and direction already present in the community itself.
Wonder Principle
When people have space to ask questions and imagine possibilities, they begin to discover what truly matters to their community.
Momentum Principle
Movement creates energy. When communities start acting toward shared goals, the process of change becomes visible and stronger.
Relational Principle
Strong and dynamic relationships between people are the building blocks of healthy communities and meaningful change.
Transformational Principle
Positive change happens when people move from weakness and dependency toward dignity, confidence, and a new way of seeing themselves.
Training Archive
Workshops across different communities In Iraq
Each training responded to a local context while staying rooted in participation, volunteerism, and sustainable community development.
Specialized training for civil activists and local actors
As part of Progress In Peace programmes to promote sustainable local development, we implemented a specialized training in Mosul on community-centered development.
The training brought together a distinguished group of civil activists and representatives from the Ministry of Youth and Sports. It formed part of a wider series of workshops designed to deepen community participation and strengthen the ability of individuals and local institutions to adopt solutions based on their own needs and resources.
We believe that change begins from within the community itself. Through this training, we continued building the capacity of young women and men in Iraq in ways that support peace and fair development.
Training a new volunteer team in effective community work
We organized an intensive one-day training for the Werithn team, a new active volunteer team in Hamdaniya (Qaraqosh), to strengthen their role in community service.
The training introduced core ideas of volunteer work and asset-based community development, with emphasis on building communities from the inside out and making better use of local possibilities and resources.
Interactive sessions and practical exercises helped participants develop the knowledge and skills needed to plan and carry out community initiatives in a more effective and sustainable way.
Strategic planning, capacity building, and youth empowerment
In partnership with Alqosh parish and the Shraga Volunteer Team, we conducted a one-day intensive training in Alqosh subdivision-district on community-centered development.
The programme featured interactive sessions and workshops on strategic planning, capacity building, youth empowerment, and the role of volunteer work in achieving sustainable community development.
At the end of the activity, certificates of appreciation were distributed to participants in recognition of their efforts and their valuable contribution to the success of the training.
Empowering local actors through local resources
Progress In Peace delivered a training in Sharya in cooperation with the Olive Branches Center for Peace on the principles of asset-based community development.
The training focused on empowering communities by investing in local resources and existing capacities, instead of looking only at challenges and shortages.
It targeted activists and community actors to strengthen their role in development and peacebuilding from within the community itself.
Volunteer skills, sustainability, and environmental awareness
Our team conducted a two-day training in collaboration with the Clean and Green volunteer team in Khanke.
The sessions focused on community-centered development, with activities designed to strengthen volunteer skills and support sustainable solutions that respond to the needs of the local community.
The training also included interactive workshops to raise environmental awareness and encourage eco-friendly practices as part of responsible community action.
Local activists mapping development pathways
In Sinjar, we held a training on community-centered development with a group of local activists.
The session explored the principles of community-based development and practical ways to map development pathways based on the needs and priorities of local communities.
Certificates of participation were awarded at the end of the training in recognition of the participants’ engagement and active contribution.
Building locally-driven solutions in camp communities
We conducted a two-day training in Chamishko IDP Camp on April 18–19, centered on community-centered development.
The sessions were designed to strengthen volunteerism skills and promote sustainable, locally-driven solutions inside the camp community. Participants took part in group discussions, practical exercises, and interactive activities shaped around local challenges and opportunities.
The programme emphasized collaboration, inclusivity, and resilience as essential pillars for long-term community empowerment.
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