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Community Project Management

Social Work · Level 6  ·  5 Chapters

Compiled by: Julius Mwangi

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What Community Project Management covers

Community Project Management in Social Work Level 6 follows a community project from needs assessment to handover. Assessing a project covers the project team and its strategy, needs assessment tools and the needs assessment report. Planning sets objectives, development strategies, resources and a work plan. Risk management covers methods of identification, a risk register, an action plan, prioritisation, mitigation measures and a risk management report. Implementation recruits the team, applies the resources and reports. Evaluation develops tools, prepares an evaluation report, and ends with termination and handing over. Documentation appears in the first four outcomes, and challenges are treated in risk management and implementation.

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Careers after Community Project Management

Community project management skills are in demand across Kenya’s public, private and civil-society sectors. Whether you join a county office, a grassroots NGO, or start your own community-focused venture, you’ll be able to turn plans into real impact while earning a steady income or project-based fees.

  • County Development Offices in Kisumu and Nakuru - you bring together diverse community teams, follow official recruitment and documentation procedures, and receive a salaried position as a community project officer.
  • NGO-run youth empowerment programmes in Nairobi’s informal settlements - you design and apply needs-assessment tools, prioritize training gaps, prepare assessment reports for donors, and earn contract fees or a stipend for each programme cycle.
  • Faith-based health outreach projects in rural Turkana - you identify health-related community needs, develop risk registers for disease outbreaks, and receive modest salaries or allowance packages while improving local wellbeing.
  • Water and sanitation projects funded by international donors in Kilifi and Kwale - you procure borehole equipment, manage resource logistics, recruit local masons, and are paid per-project or on a fixed-term basis.
  • Agricultural extension cooperatives in Kiambu and Meru - you lead farmer focus groups, create project action plans for climate-smart farming, maintain risk mitigation logs, and earn a salary or performance bonus as a project coordinator.
  • Tourism community-benefit schemes in the Maasai Mara - you engage tribal leaders, develop evaluation tools to measure income uplift, share impact reports with funders, and receive performance-based incentives.
  • Micro-enterprise incubation hubs in Mombasa’s Old Town - you conduct community needs assessments for small-business support, prepare risk management reports for market volatility, and charge consultancy fees or receive a share of venture profits.
  • School feeding and nutrition programmes in county referral hospitals and primary schools - you complete all required documentation, monitor project milestones, evaluate outcomes, and are paid per project cycle or on a regular payroll.
  • Disaster-response volunteer groups in Embu and Kitui - you develop rapid risk registers after floods, share action plans with emergency committees, and may receive stipends or hazard-response allowances.
  • Corporate social responsibility units of manufacturing firms in Thika and Eldoret - you coordinate community infrastructure projects, handle procurement according to corporate policy, and earn a professional salary as a CSR project manager.
  • Community-based tourism enterprises in Lamu - you evaluate the impact of homestay initiatives, compile evaluation reports for grant renewal, and receive a portion of tourism revenues or a fixed project fee.

Mastering these abilities opens doors to meaningful work that lifts communities and builds a rewarding career for you.

Chapters

1
Assess community projects
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2
Develop Community project plan
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3
Conduct project risk management
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4
Implementing Community project plan
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5
Perform community project evaluation
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What Community Project Management covers: 34 main topics in 5 chapters

1. Assess community projects

  1. 1.1 Meaning of community project
  2. 1.2 Types of community project team
  3. 1.3 Factors considered in developing project team strategy
  4. 1.4 Community needs assessment tools administration
  5. 1.5 Community needs assessment report
  6. 1.6 Documentation in community projects

2. Develop Community project plan

  1. 2.1 Meaning of terms
  2. 2.2 Community project identification needs
  3. 2.3 Procedures of formulating community project objectives
  4. 2.4 Community project development strategies
  5. 2.5 Identifying community project resources
  6. 2.6 Community project work plan
  7. 2.7 Documentation in community projects

3. Conduct project risk management

  1. 3.1 Meaning of the term project risk
  2. 3.2 Methods of risk identification
  3. 3.3 Importance of risk management
  4. 3.4 Elements of community project risk register
  5. 3.5 Community project action plan
  6. 3.6 Project risk prioritization
  7. 3.7 Project risk mitigation measures
  8. 3.8 Project risk management report
  9. 3.9 Documentation in project risk management
  10. 3.10 Challenges of risk management

4. Implementing Community project plan

  1. 4.1 Community project plan
  2. 4.2 Community project resources
  3. 4.3 Recruitment of community project implementation team
  4. 4.4 Community project implementation
  5. 4.5 Project implementation report
  6. 4.6 Documentation in community project implementation
  7. 4.7 Challenges of community project implementation

5. Perform community project evaluation

  1. 5.1 Evaluation tools are developed as per workplace procedures
  2. 5.2 Community project evaluation is evaluation performed as per workplace procedures
  3. 5.3 An evaluation report is prepared as per workplace procedures
  4. 5.4 Termination and handing over exercise

Revise this unit

Exam-style questions 70 Written to CDACC standard, with answers Test yourself 156 Multiple-choice, one at a time Practise questions 127 Quick recall — check you know the facts
3 more for this unit
Oral exam preparation 38 What the assessor asks, and how to answer out loud Worked calculations 30 Step-by-step maths with the common mistakes Quick cards 779 Myth busters, skill tips and scenarios

Beyond the syllabus

Decision simulator 4 On site, what would you do? Workplace scenarios 80 Real site situations — what would you do? Turn this into income 48 Where this skill earns — what to charge, how to find clients

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