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Schematic for Sectors & Building Blocks

Summary

Each bullet point represents a single training package. Italicized bullets mean it is a duplicate or subset of
another previously mentioned building block being developed in another sector.

16 Core building blocks

10 Foundation building blocks
34 Sector building blocks (14 of which are used in several sectors)
= 60 Total building blocks

Core Competencies

Core Competency Focus-in Areas

Recommended Train-up Building Blocks

Integrate into the community

Captures PC Goal 2
Captures PC Core Expectations 4 & 8

Cross-cultural skills
[ including sharing U.S. culture]
Local language training
Safety and security
Mental/emotional health
[including Resiliency, peer support]

Facilitate participatory community development

Captures PC Goal 1
Captures PC Core Expectations 2 & 6

Role of Volunteer in development

Community assessment
[ including community entry and intentional
relationship building]
Project design and management
Behavior change
Agency mandates & strategic initiatives (pending
decision)
Working with counterparts
Non-formal education skills
Designing and facilitating a Training of Trainers

Exemplify professional Peace Corps service

Captures PC Goal 3
Captures PC Core Expectations 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, &
10

Peace Corps policies

Monitoring and evaluation
Safety and security Policies & Emergency Action Plan
(covered in Safety and security training package)
Medical [including policies & physical health]
Continuation of service

Agriculture
Foundations for all agriculture Volunteers:

Agriculture Focus-in Areas

Agriculture and Food Security Overview

[food security challenges in host country, agricultural
extension techniques, basic agricultural science and
local agricultural context and practices]

Recommended Train-up Building Blocks

Promote improved nutrition (utilization)

Nutrition for food security (subset of Healths healthy

lifestyles)
Household water, sanitation, and hygiene (subset of
Healths healthy lifestyles)

Support increased food production (availability)

Promote agribusiness development (access)

Basic business skills for small-scale farmers

Value-added products

Gardens
Crop extension
Agroforestry
Soil conservation and management
Water conservation and management

Environment
Foundations for all environment Volunteers:

Organizational strengthening (subset of CED

organizational strengthening)
Approaches for working with youth (see youth sector)
Environmental extension techniques
Local environmental context and practices

Environment Focus-in Areas

Recommended Train-up Building Blocks

Promote increased environmental education and

awareness

Environmental education
Environmental awareness

Facilitate natural resources planning and

management

Support environmentally sustainable income

generation

Income generation activities (see CED sector)

Protected areas management

Watershed and natural resource planning
Tree planting and nurseries
Improved cookstoves (see health sector)
Soil conservation and management
Water conservation and management

Community Economic Development

Foundations for all CED Volunteers:

Economic development
Networking

CED Focus-in Areas

Recommended Train-up Building Blocks

Promote business development

Financial literacy
Entrepreneurship/ youth entrepreneurship
Business management skills
Community banking/microfinance institution
Income generation activities

Support organizational strengthening

Organizational Strengthening Training Package

[governance, planning, management, resource development
(IGA, fundraising), project management & service delivery,
facilitate leadership development & participation, advocacy
(special needs, community mobilizing), cooperative/
association development]

Education
Foundations for all education Volunteers:

Education Focus-in Areas

Education Foundation Training Package

[curriculum design/lesson planning; teaching critical thinking
skills; classroom management; building relationships and
communities of practice
(teachers/parents/students/community); differentiated
instruction; classroom assessment; content-based
instruction]
Design & facilitate camps & clubs (see youth sector)

Recommended Train-up Building Blocks

Facilitate gender empowerment in

education

Gender Empowerment in Education Training Package

[mentoring and tutoring; life skills; access; equitable
treatment]

Build teaching and learning capacities in

English

Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) Training

Package
[communicative methods; reading and writing; pronunciation,
speaking and listening]

Build teaching and learning capacities in

primary literacy

Early Grade Reading Training Package

[phonemic awareness/phonics; decoding texts/ fluency;
reading comprehension; teaching young learners; reading
clubs]
Libraries

Build teaching and learning capacities in

Teaching and learning math, science, and ICT Training Package

math, science, and ICT

[inquiry-based learning, HS science in low resource settings,

real life applications, exam preparation, teaching computer
basics and ICT]

Health
Foundations for all health Volunteers:

Health Focus-in Areas

Global public health overview

[regional and country health issues and goals,
country health system, health monitoring and
evaluation]

Recommended Train-up Building Blocks

Support infectious disease prevention and control

HIV prevention, care, and support

Infectious diseases
[malaria, respiratory and diarrheal disease control,
TB, NTDs]

Facilitate sustainable WASH infrastructure

development

WASH system planning and management

Improved cookstoves

Promote improved maternal, neonatal, and child

health

Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health

[maternal and newborn care, family planning, infant
and young child feeding, integrated management of
childhood illnesses]

Promote healthy lifestyles

Healthy Lifestyles
[diet /nutrition, physical exercise, school health,
hygiene promotion, youth sexual reproductive
health, alcohol/substance abuse prevention,
prevention of non-communicable diseases.] Superset
of Agricultures Nutrition 101 , Nutrition for food
security, and Household water, sanitation, and
hygiene

Youth Development
Foundations for all youth Volunteers:

Facilitate Asset Based Youth Development

Approaches to working with youth
[asset-based youth development, facilitate youth
groups and clubs]
Promote life skills development
Facilitate youth leadership & participation
Gender equity & empowerment

Foundations for some youth Volunteers:

Design & facilitate camps & clubs

Youth Development Focus-in Areas

Recommended Train-up Building Blocks

Support parents, family & community

Parent & community engagement

Engage youth as active citizens

Promote volunteerism & service learning (V )

Advocacy (special needs, community mobilizing)
(subset of CED organizational strengthening)
Civic education

Prepare youth for the world of work

Support healthy lifestyles and prepare for family life

Youth sexual & reproductive health

HIV/AIDS prevention
Alcohol/substance abuse prevention (subset of
Healths healthy lifestyles)
Physical exercise (subset of Healths healthy
lifestyles)

Financial literacy
Employability skills
Entrepreneurship/ youth entrepreneurship
Vocational skills (like ICT or English)