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I'm wondering if anyone can point me to some good materials and tools (preferably online, but other suggestions welcome too) related to the asset-based community development (ABCD) model. I'm PARTICULARLY wanting materials and resources in French. But I'll take good materials in English and translate them if necessary.

Thanks.

Has anything materialized along the way?

Plus, I was wondering if you could post a short list of countries in your region where French is the (or a) key language.

Cheers,

Matt W

Karen,

You might look at the following websites:

http://www.synergos.org/knowledge/02/abcdoverview.htm

http://www.abcdinstitute.org/

www.inrc.org/Assets/docs/workbook/1_abcd.pdf

Tom Love

Hi Matt & Tom, thanks to you both for the replies. I've been traveling much of the past 2 months, so just now catching up a bit here on the forums.

Tom, the third link you provided is particularly timely for me as we are planning to do a community mapping exercise in one of the peripheral communities of Nouakchott next month. I was needing some good ideas as to what types of questions to focus on, and the document you linked jump-started my thinking.

Kyle Adams also sent me a related link by email, to some online resources as the Discipling Nations Alliance that provide a Biblical worldview for wholistic Community Development. Some of the resources there look quite useful as well.

http://www.disciplenations.org/resources/course

Matt as to the Francophone countries in West Africa, they include: Mauritania, Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Niger, Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Benin, Cameroon, Togo, Gabon. In all of these countries French is either an official language or the primary trade language.

Three nearby countries in North Africa are also Francophone: Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia.

There's a good map and a full list of countries that make up Francophone Africa at this Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_French

Thanks again for the replies.