Community Leaders

Community Leaders are crucial link to grassroots communities. These are individuals who assume leadership role within their community and are committed to bringing positive changes to their community, including teachers, head of apartment blocks, Imams of mosques, village heads, and head of residential areas, among others. The community leaders act as a bridge between the community and DHRRA, in identifying the community’s emerging needs and in ensuring adequate support if made available to them, mainly in crisis situation.

Building Grassroots Leadership

Recognizing community leaders as the first point of reference for their respective community, over the years we have prioritized the building of grassroots leadership capacity to take on leadership roles in addressing urgent issues faced by their community. Capacity Building Workshops are organized to equip leaders and potential leaders within the communities with the relevant leadership knowledge and skills in to improve and enhance their leadership capacity.

Empowerment of Community Leaders as Community Based Paralegals

We continue to successfully capacitate and engage community leaders as Community Based Paralegals in the legal empowerment of the stateless and undocumented community in Malaysia, including our recent initiative to empower Community paralegals in engaging government agencies towards addressing and resolving statelessness caused by gender inequality practices.