Definition of Terms

Corps Women in Development Office under a Gender and Develop 

ment Training Initiative.  staff and Volunteers were first

introduced to PACA through in service training (IST) workshops. It

has now been incorporated in many pre service training (PST)

programs and is sometimes integrated with PDM workshops. For

more information, please review the PACA Manual (ICE no. M0053)

or  Gender and Development Training (ICE no. M0054). For

information on conducting capacity inventories with communities,

consult Building Communities from the Inside Out, (ICE no.

CD051).

 Country Program Strategy and

Projects

The  uses the term Program Strategy to describe its overall

presence in a country. The  Program Strategy in country

X may comprise one or more Projects, usually defined by sectors such

as environment, health, or economic development. In this manual, a

community project is distinct from a  project in terms of

scale, concept, and management. A community project is small scale,

In this manual, resource

focused on a specific local priority, and managed by community

members. A  project is larger in scale, referenced by all

development refers to the

Volunteer activities relating to a particular common purpose, focused

process of identifying,

locally but based on a national agenda, and managed by the Peace

valuing, and mobilizing

Corps and collaborating host governmental agencies or nongovern 

mental organizations.

the human, physical,

material, and monetary

Resource Development

resources that exist within

a community.

Education sector programmers often use this term to refer to the

development of written materials, library collections and resource

centers that support various types of learning programs. In this

manual, resource development is used quite differently. It refers to

the process of identifying, valuing, and mobilizing the human,

physical, material, and monetary resources that exist within a com 

munity. In assets based development approaches, people start with

what they have and can do, not with what is missing. This aim not

only helps to frame community projects, but also guides the

community's funding efforts. In this sense, resource development

envelops a wide range of ideas about how needed resources might be

solicited or earned within the community, and secondarily, sought from

external sources.

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