Agents of Change
Equipping Anglicans for community transformation
Agents of Change is an Anglican Alliance course originally developed with the UK’s Open University. It gives participants the skills and knowledge to facilitate development activities in their local community.
The course looks at every stage of how to set up a community development project – from coming up with an idea… to planning… to managing a project… to monitoring and evaluating it. The course teaches both practical skills (such as how to write a budget and how to do a risk assessment) and values (such as being inclusive and being transparent).
There are 8 modules, which participants study in their own time and at their own pace over a period of around 6 months. The course is rigorous and demanding; it requires serious input of time and commitment over an extended period of time. Each module takes around 16 hours to complete, so potential participants are required to commit to studying for at least half a day / 4 hours each week. Participants are supported by an overseas mentor, who provides encouragement and feedback on the work submitted by the participant.
In this video, Tagolyn Kabekabe – the Anglican Alliance’s former regional facilitator for the Pacific – talks about the value of Agents of Change for her region.
The Introductory Guide is the place to start to find out more. As well as giving a more detailed overview of the course, it provides a comprehensive questions and answers section.
We are currently engaged in a three-year global roll out of Agents of Change thanks to the generous support of Trinity Church Wall Street. In year 1 of the grant, we delivered trainings in the Pacific and Caribbean. We are now working with and through the Anglican Communion Youth Network to roll out the course further and equip emerging Anglican leaders for local church and community transformation. The course has been extended into a programme which includes two modules on the theology of leadership, to develop leadership thinking and good practice among participants.
We currently do not have the capacity to take on distance learners. However, please watch this space and contact us if interested.
If you are an Anglican diocese, development department or theological college and might be interested in hosting a training, please contact the Agents of Change programme director, Dr Elizabeth Perry: agentsofchange@anglicancommunion.org.
Have questions? Please get in touch with us at agentsofchange@anglicanalliance.org.
Click here for the Agents of Change introductory guide
The impacts of Agents of Change
Above: Stallon Ihove from Papua New Guinea talks about what Agents of Change has meant for him.
Below: Brother Lent SSF talk about his reforestation project ten years on and the other lasting impacts of Agents of Change.
The Agents of Change programme is one of the most exciting innovations from the Anglican Alliance. The modules focus on vital areas of community development, grounded in academic rigour. It is a superb contribution from the Anglican Alliance to strengthen the committed and inspiring work of Anglicans around the world in holistic mission.
“I hear that participants talk of being themselves transformed as they seek to transform their communities, working together with the poorest and most vulnerable. Bonds of fellowship are developing across the Anglican Communion. Together people are discovering a shared vision and mutual inspiration in responding to God’s call to build his Kingdom in the here and now.”