Manuals and Guides

Culture Matters (T0087) (T0120)

This workbook is a map to guide you through your cross-cultural experience and also a way for you to record your thoughts and feelings as you live and work in your host country. It contains a variety of exercises, as well as stories and quotations from Volunteers who have served before you, from experts on cross-cultural training, and from the kind of people you might expect to meet in your new country.

Intercultural Competence, Diversity, & Inclusion (ICD&I)

Doing a Feasibility Study: Training Activities for Starting or Reviewing a Small Business (SB104) (SB105) (SB106)

This manual is built on the experience of women like these and the staff of local organizations that assist them. We are proud to make it available to those who are working at the "frontline" of small business development, trainers and programmers who work with Third World women and understand their needs, as well as their hopes.

Economy, Economic Development, & Business

Glossary of Agricultural Terms, English and Spanish (R0009)

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This bilingual glossary is a modest attempt to fill one of the needs of Spanish-speaking agriculturists receiving training under the program of the International Cooperation Administration. The list is not complete in any sense. It is based largely on suggestions made by experts engaged; in the training of foreign agricultural specialists both abroad and in the United States.

Agriculture

Improved Cookstoves Training Package: Improved Cookstoves Handbook (M0091) Annexes

Improved Cookstoves Handbook (M0091) Annexes

Health & Wellness

Life Skills & Leadership (M0098) (M0110) (M0114) (M0115)

While a particular project may focus on only one or two of these sector competencies, the life skills and leadership topics relate to all aspects of life, including: succeeding in the workplace, fostering healthy living, and engaging with communities. With this manual, Volunteers leading a wide range of positive youth development activities in any sector can learn to integrate life and leadership skills training into their relationships with youth in their communities.

Children & Youth

Marketing Strategy: Training Activities for Entrepreneurs (SB092) (SB124) (SB125)

This training program is for women who already have operating businesses.* The size of the business is not important. It can fit the needs of a woman selling homemade jam at a local market or the needs of a group who owns a retail store. What matters is that the women already have businesses.

Economy, Economic Development, & Business

New Project Design and Management Workshop Training Manual (T0107) (T0127) (T0128)

The PDM Workshop builds on the philosophy and methodologies of community participation that most Volunteers begin to learn in pre-service training (PST) and continue to expand through in-service training (IST).

Government, Civics, & Community Engagement

Practical Poultry Raising (M0011) (M0030) (M0034)

This manual is designed to provide development workers with the information and tools needed either to begin or to improve poultry production. For those who are inexperienced in poultry production, this manual can identify and provide the basic information needed to raise and market poultry successfully.

Agriculture

Small Scale Beekeeping (M0017) (M0025) (M0026)

This is a manual for getting started with small-scale beekeeping development projects. The intention is to provide an overview of beekeeping and its possibilities as a tool for development.

Agriculture

The PACA Field Guide for Volunteers (M0127)

Participatory Analysis for Community Action (PACA) is Peace Corps' unique approach to appreciative, participatory, gender-sensitive, inclusive, sustainable development.

Intercultural Competence, Diversity, & Inclusion (ICD&I)

Traditional Field Crops (M0013) (M0035)

This manual is designed as a learning tool and on-the-job reference for Peace Corps Volunteers involved in small farmer crop improvement programs in maize, sorghum, millet, peanuts, beans and cowpeas. Although written to be readily understood by non-specialists, the manual con

Agriculture

Volunteerism Action Guide: Multiplying the Power of Service (CD062) (CD063) (CD064) (CD065)

With the V2 Volunteerism initiative, the Peace Corps seeks to help Volunteers inspire and support host country volunteerism by integrating elements of service learning into community development work. This booklet will show you how to motivate and support communities to make service a common experience.

Government, Civics, & Community Engagement

Youth Livelihoods: Employability (M0093) (M0102)

There are three manuals in the Youth Livelihoods series: Employability, Financial Literacy, and Entrepreneurship. All three of these courses are designed to be delivered by Peace Corps Volunteers and their counterparts worldwide who are helping young people develop knowledge, skills, and aptitudes for improving their financial literacy, their employability, and their economic independence.

Children & Youth

Youth Livelihoods: Financial Literacy (M0092) (M0101)

There are three manuals in the Youth Livelihoods series: Employability, Financial Literacy, and Entrepreneurship. All three of these courses are designed to be delivered by Peace Corps Volunteers and their counterparts worldwide who are helping young people develop knowledge, skills, and aptitudes for improving their employability, their financial literacy, and their economic independence.

Children & Youth

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