SMart Build capacity

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Projects
Are driven by the community
Ensure Sustainability Its time to
Make your life easier! plan smart!

Use GAD Tools to

PLAN SMART
Pick the GAD Tool thats right for you
The Gender and Development Committee is dedicated to providing training and tools to help you
make your projects more effective. The tools we provide include ways to ensure that the voice
of all in your village is hearda key step for planning smart and successful projects. We have
tools to kick off every project from compost to computer training. Use this guide to pick the tool
that is right for you, and plan smart.

What these tools

can do for you
Not a fan of public
speaking?
Participatory sessions take
the pressure off of you.
Eat your heart out HQ
Prove how awesome your
project is with the built in
monitoring and evaluation
techniques.

No gat taem? Weve got you covered

Feel free to use bits and Toolkits available with
pieces of any workshop to everything you need to run
fulfill your project needs. the show.
Share
Islands that could
benefit from smart
your
projects
Session Informative Success
Creative
Types
GAD loves to hear how smart
your projects are becoming.
Investigative Send photos, stories,
suggestions, or a nice hello to
Planning contact@gadvanuatu.com

Sick of meaningless acronyms?

Turn the page to check out our A.D.S. (acronym decoder of Turn the
Smart planning leads to science.) page to find
success and balloons. your tool!
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I just got here, I need to

know the background of COMMUNITY Community Profiling
PROFILING completely profile your community and finish with a report that summarizes what your
Developed by the Government of Vanuatu and Peace Corps, this tool allows you to
my community, its structure
and priorities. I also want an
community has, does not have, wants, needs, and plans for the future. You can complete the

excuse to get out there and Community Education Economy Population Village Sanitation General
report at a community meeting or by interviewing representatives from individual groups
Structure Sav
meet people. such as the Womens group, the chiefs, and the youth. This is a great tool to use at the

beginning of your service to better understand your new community.

CHAST Childrens Hygiene and Sanitation Training

I need a fun way to get my
students to wash their hands
Tired of seeing Numba 11s and pink eye take over your school? The Childrens Hygiene
and brush their teeth. No
and Sanitation Training is a fun way to improve the hygiene and health knowledge at your
lectures please, and you get primary school. Theres lovable characters, puppets, and interactive activities that will

more points for the inclusion School Hand Toilet Dental Super Fun
prove a good break from the students maths and general lectures. The sessions can be
Washing Facilities Hygiene
of hand puppets. done as a complete training or used individually to practice just the essentials.

I think that my community

needs help with their water
and sanitation... but I dont
PHAST Participatory Hygiene and Sanitation Transformation
Thats right, the T stands for TRANSFORMATION! PHASTs participatory approach
leads the community members through activities that empowers them to make educated
want to tell them what to do decisions about facility improvementstaking the pressure off of you to make wild guesses

Hand Dental Food Toilet Waste
and I am NOT a fan of public Community
Washing Hygiene Sanitation Facilities Disposal as to their needs or priorities. PHAST both educates the community on hygiene and
speaking. sanitation and facilitates the creation of a prioritized action plan to make improvements in

the communityall without you giving a single lecture on hand washing. CCC!
My school is all over the
place. We have so much that PACA Participatory For Analysis for Community Action for Educators
must be done, we need to set
priorities and get to work. I
EDUCATORS projects in communities. Now these same successful tools can be applied to an education setting
PACA has long been used as a successful way to design and implement successful development

with our PACA for Education guide. This workshop will give direction to schools and education

need direction in how to best School Library Toilet Education Facility Attaining
volunteers, and can be used for everything from designating teaching responsibilities to designing
Needs Facilities Upgrades Resources
help them. large-scale school infrastructure projects. Sessions can also be run individually as seen fit.

I want to help my
community improve its health
and sanitation facilities, but PHC Primary Health Care
The Primary Health Care workshop offers tools for communities to analyze their health
needs, set priorities, and implement an action plan in order to improve the health of their
I dont know where to start.
community. This workshop has helped hundreds of volunteers to successfully design,

I want to help them take Community Hand Facility Food Toilet Water Waste
implement, and monitor small and large scale development projects.
Washing Upgrades Sanitation Facilities Systems Disposal
charge of the project.

The leaders of my
community want me to start
this project, but I want to
PACA Participatory Analysis for Community Action
Help the various groups in your community to share information and perspectives among
themselves. Enable them to identify their own resources and needs, and provide a way of
make sure that its something prioritizing several needs or desires. Ensure that an activity is planned at an appropriate

that the community really Anything and/or Everything
time for the intended participants. Basically, set yourself up for success in whatever priority
wants and needs. area your community decides.

Find these tools on SharePoint, send an email to

contact@gadvanuatu.com, or storian with any of our
GAD members!