Index of Publications

The following is an alphabetical listing of all resources available in the online library.

• A Community Economic Development (CED) Training Guide for Peace Corps Volunteers (PDF)
  • Introduction (PDF)
  • Module 1: Understanding Community Economic Development (CED) (PDF)
  • Module 2: Citizen Participation in CED (PDF)
  • Module 3: Developing a CED Strategic Agenda (PDF)
  • Module 4: Implementing a CED Strategic Agenda (PDF)
  • Module 5: Monitoring and Evaluating CED Projects (PDF)
• Adapting Environmental Education Materials (PDF)
• A New Beginning: The Child Health Manual (PDF)
• An NGO Training Guide for Volunteers (PDF)

  These self-study modules describe the function of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in civil society and how Volunteers can contribute to their efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability. They discuss the advantages of appreciative inquiry as an approach to NGO development, provide a structured method (NGO capacity profile) to analyze NGO strength, build Volunteer skills in facilitation and training, and explore the role of governance and planning in achieving a sustainable organization. Optional trainer’s notes are included.
  174 pp

• Beyond the Classroom: Empowering Girls (PDF)
• Building Bridges: A Peace Corps Classroom Guide to Cross-Cultural Understanding (online manual)
• Classroom Management Idea Book (PDF)

  This book was written in response to feedback from Volunteer teachers who feel that the time spent dealing with classroom management issues detracts from the time they spend actually teaching the content. Volunteers and staff members provided practical strategies for dealing with the most commonly reported challenges. Chapters include teaching in a cross-cultural context, strategies for developing classroom procedures and rules, motivation, managing disruptive behavior, assessment, and grading. Sensitive and complicated questions, such as how to teach in a school where cheating and corporal punishment are common, are addressed.

  There are exercises to exchange information with host colleagues to gain mutual respect and understanding. It would be helpful to read this book before starting to teach, but equally useful once teaching. It will help Volunteers think about their classrooms, students, and colleagues from new perspectives so they can adapt to a new teaching environment. 132 pp.

• Culture Matters: The Peace Corps Cross-Cultural Workbook (interactive version)
• Culture Matters Trainers' Guide (PDF)
• DPM: Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation (Pre-Service) (PDF)
• DPM: Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation (In-Service) (PDF)
• DPM Idea Book: Integrating Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation in Your Work (PDF)
• Environmental Education in the Community (PDF)

  Whether you wish to carry out a simple awareness activity or plan to manage a long-term project, this manual has advice, tips, and project management ideas for a successful program. Includes guidance for starting and managing an education project, as well as the many practical activities to conduct with a variety of audiences. Field-generated material includes a chapter on establishing and sustaining camps as well as a chapter detailing step-by-step directions to conduct numerous activities and projects.

  • Part 1: Introduction, Chapters 1 – 7, and Training Modules (Project Design and Management) (PDF)
  • Part 2: Chapters 8 – 9 (Environmental Education Camps and Environmental Education Centers) (PDF)
  • Part 3: Chapter 10 (Environmental Education Community Projects), Appendix (PDF)
• Environmental Education in the Schools: Creating a Program that Works! (8.8 MB)
• The Exchange
  • Volume 33, WID, 2000 (PDF)
  • Volume 34, HIV/AIDS, 2001 (PDF)
  • Volume 35, ICT, 2001 (PDF)
  • Volume 36, Men and Boys, 2003 (PDF)
• Gender and Development Training
  • Booklet 2: Training Designs (PDF)
  • Booklet 3: Basic Knowledge About WID, GAD, and PACA (PDF)
  • Booklet 4: Skills Training (PDF)
  • Booklet 5: PACA Tools (PDF)
  • Booklet 6: Community Field Work with PACA (PDF)
  • Booklet 8: Field Insights (PDF)
• Health Activities for Primary School Students (PDF)

  This resource covers dental health, hygiene, first aid, nutrition, drugs and alcohol. It emphasizes active learning for students, and encourages them to make healthy decisions and to be responsible for the health of their own respective communities. Included are songs and activities to get students more actively involved in health and hygiene issues. 69 pp.

• HIV/AIDS: Integrating Prevention and Care into Your Sector (PDF)
• HIV/AIDS: Training Resources Kit (PDF)

  This resource kit is a comprehensive set of training resources for posts. It provides session plans, fact sheets, and other resources to help you tailor HIV/AIDS training in pre-service training and in-service training to the needs of various groups of trainees and Volunteers. The eight modules in the Resource Kit were organized around what is already happening in the field in HIV/AIDS activities. Reports of what Volunteers are doing are grouped by competencies needed for those activities.

• In the Classroom: Empowering Girls (PDF)
• Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Training of Trainers: Computer and Internet Use For Development, Facilitator Guide (PDF)
• Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Training of Trainers: Computer and Internet Use For Development, Participant Handbook (PDF)
• Insights From the Field: Understanding Geography, Culture and Service (online manual)
• Les Practiques D'Une Vie Saine (Life Skills Manual in Fr.) (PDF)
• La Cultura si Importa (Culture Matters in Sp.) (PDF)
• Language Proficiency Interview Manual for Testers
  • English (PDF)
  • Spanish (PDF)
  • French (PDF)
• Learning Local Environmental Knowledge Training Manual (PDF)
• Learning Local Environmental Knowledge Volunteer's Guide (PDF)
• Libraries for All! How to Start and Run a Basic Library. (PDF)

  This manual and resource guide for small libraries is a basic reference and contains practical, step-by-step instructions for creating and managing a successful library. Published by UNESCO, it was written by Laura Wendell, RPCV. It is a useful resource for Information Resource Center (IRC) managers and Volunteers involved in community resource center projects and school libraries. 130 pp.

• Life Skills Manual (PDF)
• Looking at Ourselves and Others (online manual)
• Microenterprise Training Guide for Volunteers
  • Introduction and Section One (PDF)
  • Sections Two and Three (PDF)
  • Sections Four and Five (PDF)
• Mwongozo wa Stadi za Maisha (Life Skills Manual in Swahili) (PDF)
• The New Project Design and Management Workshop Training Manual (PDF)
• Outreach: Materials on Crops and Gardening (PDF)

  This compilation deals with seeds and plants, the garden environment, the preservation and use of crops after harvest and a variety of farming issues, from pesticides to land ownership. The publication includes learning-by-doing leaflets, especially useful for teachers to help students learn about both the practical and scientific aspects of gardening and nutrition. 258 pp.

• Participatory Analysis for Community Action (PACA) Training Manual (PDF)

  This revised manual continues to be a core resource for use in pre-service training or in-service training to teach Peace Corps trainees and Volunteers asset-based participatory approaches to community development. As in the original manual, readers learn specific tools like community mapping, transects and seasonal calendars that may be used with groups within communities to help them identify their collective resources, needs and priorities. The book also reinforces a process to ensure community members are not excluded from the planning process due to economic status, sex, age, race, religion and other factors. Trainers will appreciate the updated examples and the suggestions for integrating PACA training with other essential training sessions.

• Peace Corps Programming and Training Manual
  • Booklet 1: The Basics (PDF)
  • Booklet 2: How to Design or Revise a Project (PDF)
  • Booklet 3: How to Integrate Second and Third Goals into a Project (PDF)
  • Booklet 4: How to Assess a Project (PDF)
  • Booklet 5: How to Implement a Project (PDF)
• Promoting Powerful People (PDF)
• Sources of Donated Books (PDF)

  This publication helps Volunteers identify organizations that can provide books and other educational resources to their communities. It provides contact information and guidance on how Volunteers and their community partners can submit requests and receive donations from the organizations listed, and it emphasizes the importance of sustainability in library development activities.
  26 pp.

• Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Large Multilevel Classes (PDF)
• TEFL/TESL: Teaching English as a Foreign or Second Language (PDF)
• The Roles of the Volunteer in Development (PDF)
  • Introduction Booklet (PDF)
  • Booklet 1: Role of the Volunteer as a Learner (PDF)
  • Booklet 2: Role of the Volunteer as a Change Agent (PDF)
  • Booklet 3: Role of the Volunteer as a Co-Trainer (PDF)
  • Booklet 4: Role of the Volunteer as a Co-Facilitator (PDF)
  • Booklet 5: Role of the Volunteer as a Project Co-Planner (PDF)
  • Booklet 6: Role of the Volunteer as a Mentor (PDF)
• World Map Project (PDF)

  This handbook is based on The World Map Project Manual by Returned Volunteer Barbara Jo White and began as a World Wise Schools study guide. It describes procedures for using a grid to construct a world map along with complementary activities for teaching geography. Users need few materials and can adapt the project to their community, country or region. Drawings, maps and grids included. 73 pp.

• Uncommon Journeys
• Using Participatory Analysis for Community Action Idea Book (PDF)

  Once Volunteers are trained in participatory analysis for community action (PACA) techniques and processes (see the PACA Training Manual [ICE No. M0053]), they can use this Idea Book to further their knowledge of PACA and begin to implement the concepts with their communities. This book describes how Peace Corps Volunteers can maximize the Peace Corps' capacity-building approach to development by using participatory activities to better understand the impact of gender roles and relations in community development. Most importantly, this book gives concrete ideas and examples to help Volunteers put the analysis gained from the activities into action.

• CyberVolunteer Letters
• V2 - Volunteerism Action Guide
• Voices From the Field: Reading and Writing about the World, Ourselves, and Others (online manual)
• Volunteer On-Going Language Learning Manual (PDF)
• Working with Supervisors and Counterparts
  • Booklet 1: Working with Supervisors and Counterparts (PDF)
  • Booklet 2: Developing a Supervisor and Counterpart Workshop (PDF)
  • Booklet 3: A Supervisor/Counterpart Handbook (PDF)
• Working With Youth: Approaches for Volunteers
  • Introduction (PDF)
  • Part 1: Being With Youth (PDF)
  • Part 2: Creating Credibility, Addressing Sustainability, and Building Capacity (PDF)
  • Part 3: Tools, Techniques, and Games (PDF)
  • Part 4: Promising Activities (PDF)
  • Part 5: Resources (PDF)

Last updated Apr 23 2009