Effective and sustainable health promotion and disease prevention programs rely on active community involvement, i.e. capturing community voice, support, and participation. Having community members come together to identify problems affecting them and coming up with strategies to address them, increases community efforts and empowers communities to bring about the desired change. AAD uses a participatory and collaborative decision-making process that emphasizes active community involvement in identifying key health issues, strategies to address them, and empowers communities to improve their health and wellbeing. Community capacity building through collaborative, participatory, and transformational trainings entails equipping communities with skills and competencies needed to address the persistent health disparities framed within the context of public health and social determinants of health. Therefore, community trainings play a pivotal role in empowering community members as agents of sustainable change. Advance African Development, Inc. provides consultancy services and community trainings to promote effective community capacity building and sustainable development.
