Skip to content
Contact（https://empower.org.ki/contact） Open menu
← Back to Our work（https://empower.org.ki/our-programs）
Enabling Digital Participation
Empowering Community Leadership: Community Organisation Leaders
Completed South Tarawa, Kiribati
Two days of leadership, digital literacy and financial literacy training for village and community group leaders, delivered in July 2026 and closing with personal action planning. Part of the Empowering Community Leadership programme funded by the New Zealand High Commission.
Participant commitments
Participants recorded the most detailed action commitments of the programme. They included electing board members and clearly defining their roles, opening community bank accounts, preparing full documentation before applying for funding, and retaining receipts as evidence for donors. Fifteen participants identified community leadership and budgeting as their priority areas for the following three months.
Funded by
New Zealand High Commission（https://empower.org.ki/our-partners/o220wc21csar6qr8lqvwftpa）
Objectives
What this program sets out to do
For community-based organisation leaders, the programme aimed to strengthen:
Leadership: grassroots mobilisation, volunteer management and community engagement.