1.2 Community Needs

• Categories of needs in the community
• Potential community resources for CSL activities
• Community stakeholders for partnerships in CSL activities
• Identifying and prioritising community needs

• identify categories of needs in the community
• identify potential community resources for CSL activities
• engage community stakeholders for partnerships in CSL activities
• appreciate the role of the community in identifying its own needs

“How do you find out what a community actually needs?”

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1. Finding out what is needed
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   Categories of need, and why asking the wrong question gets the wrong answer.
2. Resources and stakeholders
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   What a community already has, and who must be involved for anything to last.
3. Eight kinds of need in one place
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Using the eight categories on a real Kenyan neighbourhood so a problem can be named, not just felt.
4. Basic, health and education needs
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   How survival, care and learning show up in a Kenyan community, and how to check them without guessing.
5. Economic and environmental needs
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Income, markets, waste, erosion and trees as community needs Grade 10 can notice and rank.
6. Social, infrastructure and safety needs
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Care, roads, power, bridges, crime and disaster risk as needs that CSL must not skip because they are less visible or look too big.
7. Walking and watching
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Observation as the first method of needs assessment: record what you see before you interpret it.
8. Asking without leading
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Open questions, several groups, and why a polite yes is not evidence.
9. Records that already exist
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Clinic figures, school registers and county plans as a check on what people say.
10. Prioritising community needs
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Ranking with urgency, who is affected, ownership and learner fit - with the community, not for it.
11. Partnerships that last
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Turning stakeholder names into specific asks, written roles, and a reason the partner would stay.
12. Mapping the school neighbourhood
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Putting needs, resources and stakeholders on one simple map as the curriculum needs assessment.
13. Taking findings back
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Reporting what you heard, asking whether you understood, and leaving the door open for later action.