The following pages detail the way that CorpsAfrica uses Asset Based Community Development and Human Centered Design in its trainings for Volunteers. CorpsAfrica Volunteers utilize these methods for identifying community-led projects in their assigned local communities. Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) is an approach to sustainable community-driven development based on the premise that communities can drive the development process themselves by identifying and mobilizing existing, but often unrecognized assets. ABCD stands in contrast to a deficit-based approach that focuses on identifying and servicing needs. Human-Centered Design (HCD), formerly called Design Thinking, is an approach to community development based on a deep empathetic understanding of the community and rapid development and testing of prototype concepts. This approach is grounded in the belief that people who face challenges are the ones who hold the key to their solution. HCD is a system of overlapping phases (People, Observations, Principles, Ideas, Experiments) rather than a sequence of orderly steps.
Manual or Handbook
CorpsAfrica's ABCD and HCD Guide
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